> It's probably not the sort of thing that should be formalized, yet I feel that HN could be bringing people together more than it currently does. Completely a

> It's probably not the sort of thing that should be formalized, yet I feel that HN could be bringing people together more than it currently does. Completely agree on this. Sometimes I even thought that the lack of the typical features that help creating "relationships" here was by design, to make it more difficult build coalitions/voting rings/subgroups. What about simply adding private messaging? With an opt-out option for the receiver and a (low) minimum karma threshold for the sender, just to make it more difficult to create spam bots.