There is an ugly hack: people could post the name of the author as a reply to the quote, (along with a karma dynamo,) and people could downvote the name (and upvote the dynamo). Downsides:
1) The first few people to see the quote would still see the name.
2) People who have changed their options from the default to not hide sufficiently downvoted comments would still see the name.
3) wedrifid would be deprived of the opportunity to participate fully in the communal project along with the rest of us, as would anyone else awesome enough to live on the edge of using up all their downvote ammunition.
Bonus: voting on the value of the quote could be on a tab within the downvoted thing, so one would not even know the LW hive vote upon first reading.
This would cease to be an ugly hack if it were possible to add comments that would automatically be compressed without being downvoted.
There is an ugly hack: people could post the name of the author as a reply to the quote, (along with a karma dynamo,) and people could downvote the name (and upvote the dynamo). Downsides:
1) The first few people to see the quote would still see the name.
2) People who have changed their options from the default to not hide sufficiently downvoted comments would still see the name.
3) wedrifid would be deprived of the opportunity to participate fully in the communal project along with the rest of us, as would anyone else awesome enough to live on the edge of using up all their downvote ammunition.
Bonus: voting on the value of the quote could be on a tab within the downvoted thing, so one would not even know the LW hive vote upon first reading.
This would cease to be an ugly hack if it were possible to add comments that would automatically be compressed without being downvoted.