tying this data to a login instead of a pure cookie model like hn seems dangerous.
If you want to vote, you'll need to log in. We needed substantial protection around the votes, and this was the easiest way to do so.
Would you want a magic link that sends you a url to vote to your email or something like that?
Can you confirm that is what you prefer?
We have to screen very carefully for fraud from overzealous authors, unfortunately. Email is a nice tool in that.
i understand that it’s easier to get a stronger “trust” signal by being more invasive
but hopefully the product will be so valuable that users will value their accounts as assets (like on hn) that they won’t want to compromise with bad behavior
I'll think on it :)