[austenallred]

It looks like you're off to a good start. There's design cleanup to do, for sure. Ya, there are buts that people can clear cookies and vote again - welcome to the world of building social news software.

There will be two key moments with this: 1. Will people stick around after this is off the front page of HN?

2. When people decide to game your site, how well do you handle voting rings? The reddit founders have mentioned that nearly half of their code catches voting rings; that's not trivial to do. And of course, it may be premature optimization, but it is something to consider that anyone with a few minutes of time to build a bot could completely destroy your site.

[__z]

Wouldn't "handling vote rings" be a form of "censorship"?

[NeutronBoy]

You have a right to say what you want, you don't have a right to manipulate the ranking of the content.

[__z]

I don't see the difference. If you want to be free of censorship that also means free of moderation. Every community needs moderation if only for spam for a reason. That's why this doesn't make sense, there will have to be some choices at moderating the content thus choosing what is displayed or not.