[johnnyanmac]

TBH, something similar to hacker news but taken to an extreme. Give actual value to an account and make detriments revoke those priveledges. You need a minimum karma here to downvote, so take that and add more priveledges. even up to being light moderator or being able to have higher weighting in votes for comments. reward good behavior and quickly remove it if the tides turn.

You need some self moderation in oder to keep a healthy community, this encourages and rewards regulars. This can also guard against "Eternal September" if a regular's vote mattered more than some newcomer.