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If I recall, if you send someone directly to the discussion page, your vote will not count. It'll register on the counter, but it won't effect your ranking. (I think Reddit does the same thing) This is to protect from mass-voting and spam.

I've been using this HN button on my blog posts for a while..

https://github.com/igrigorik/hackernews-button

This new one seems more extensible though. I may give it a try next time I update my blog.

If the plague of Facebook Like buttons wasn't enough.

It makes it practical though since so many people seem to think linking off to HN instead of having comments is a decent way of handling discussion.

Sure, but how is this better than a simple "Discuss on HN" link?

I like the idea, nice work thanks for sharing! I haven't been able to test it yet but hope it works considering ncasenmare's comment.

Good job, love the approach to scaling in the browser.

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