My votes haven't counted for a while, and my comment average is 2.64 according to <a href="http://searchyc.com/user/10ren?only=comments&#38;sort=by_points" rel="nofollow">http://searchyc.com/user/10ren?only=comments&#38;sort=by_poi...</a><p>I think a respectful approach is to be upfront, and just say there's a cut-off, instead of making the votes appear to count. I assume you want to obscure it, to protect HN from scamming, but I'm not sure that valuing protection over respect will work in the long term.<p><i>EDIT</i> I'd like to upvote some of the comments here, but what's the point? They won't count.