The HN codebase already supports this with the showdead toggle.. "I really don't want to get to the point that I am deciding what content should or not be allowed to stay." Ah, I think I see what you're saying! You're saying that while HN can get by with a few moderator 'super users', it goes against the ethos of hubski to have a privileged few. Is this the concern? Interesting. My immediate reaction is that it doesn't seem like such a big deal to have a privileged few if we have 'showdead' to keep the privileged honest. But I'm going to think more about this. It might make sense to build out the workflow for managing moderators into the existing kill/showdead system rather than creating a new parallel system. Perhaps we can enable kill for everyone? But then show who killed something, and allow anyone to unkill it as well. Or maybe allow anyone with more than say x karma to kill stories.