[dag]

So the community is based on trust yet you don't trust the community with information on how the community functions.

[JoelSutherland]

The code for HN is open source:

http://arclanguage.org/

This is not how the community functions however. The community functions by being made up of a group of people who believe in courtesy. It is not vulnerable to any sort of software hack, instead it is vulnerable to the slow drift towards thoughtlessness.

[lsb]

Huh? You can download the source code for HN, and you can infer how voting happens from Firebug. Where's the lack of trust part?

[dag]

That's kind of the point, nothing was said that wasn't already public available information, yet people got angry at Xach for saying it.

The lack of trust is not trusting the community not to abuse an explained hack, and the whole is made dumb by the fact that anyone can figure out the hack for themselves even if it wasn't explained to them.