I actually really dislike that about Reddit's format, to the extent that for the subreddit(s) I care about I always view them by recent posts first.
I'm sure there's a middle way. Leave the order as it is, but indicate with a scaled icon the posts that are highly regarded.
Or just simply a number of likes and a mouse over with the users who liked? Exactly like Facebook I guess.
Or a scale to rate a post? Rather than like/up dislike/down. I don't think promoting posts would work at all with beehive.
Or, as Kos said and I quote, "a dragon with a cock proportionate to the popularity of the post."
Perhaps have a user setting for the likes of Ken who are squeamish about dragon cocks, for them the font size of the post in question could be increased or decreased by 1 for each like/dislike the post receives.
I think Ken just needs to learn to love teh cock.
I think you should scale up the whole post instead, username and text and all. :Y
Or autoread the text in a proportionately louder voice.
Aye, I really dislike when it's used in places I like to read completely rather than just skim. Works well on stackexchange etc. though.
It definitely works there because it's generally not a discussion. Questions with the best answers higher.
If I was going to add it, I'd do a up / down vote thing but rather than the promotion system Slashdot have, which I agree wouldn't really work with Beehive's threaded structure, I'd probably go with something like Eurogamer's comment system where you have a user definable threshold (which would be a combination of total score and number of votes) and if the score goes below this the posts are hidden. Kinda like a social ignore list.
(This of course would be optional and you could choose not to set a threshold)
OMG STILL NO EMOTES
<uncaches things>
Oh wait, I adblocked that fucking purple spanking thing and it seems to have applied generally.
Give it time, ken. Give it time.
Why is it always cocks and never lady gardens?