never used reddit, but here's a "solution" system i thought up on the fly for a social posting site. "karma" like HN for participating/socializing on the site.

never used reddit, but here's a "solution" system i thought up on the fly for a social posting site. "karma" like HN for participating/socializing on the site. with enough karma you can log into new.sitenamehere.com and vote on new submissions which are in queue for an hour. if you upvote something that gets more downvotes than upvotes, you lose karma. if you upvote something that passes the votes you gain karma, but the whole process is a blind vote, you don't see the results till the end. what this does is puts moderation of site content into the hands of the people actively participating in the site, they're karmicly "voted" into moderator position, and then further vetted when they review content for the site. downside: hour long submission "queue" before they show up on the site proper (or get rejected)