The only LW-specific community feature my proposal takes advantage of is our cultural applause of "I cooperate in Prisoner's Dilemmas."

It scales in the specific sense that it allows for incoming users and authors to be added incrementally. It fails to scale in the sense that it can never be an open system in the same sense that Usenet is an open system. However, that is no worse than our existing situation.

Graceful degredation is a hard problem. Please don't bring up graceful degredation, that's for a future post. :-P

I am waffling on whether to encourage people to anticipate issues. On the one hand, it's helpful for me to know what I need to address along the way. On the other, I really don't want the comment threads bogged down by material that only makes sense to our technical contingent.

I love it that you jumped to the correct interpretation of The Proper Placement of User Features.