As long as only a minority of users use this, great. Otherwise, if everyone's reading through things like this, WTF is voting the stories up in the first place?
Part of what makes HN good is that most people hit the site and help with the voting. The more people who move away to reading HN remotely or through feeds.. the worse the voting situation gets.
Agreed, but I don't think there's much to worry about as it stands. PG said newsyc currently gets 60,000 unique visitors per day, and the # of ppl following these twitter feeds is barely 1% of that.
Part of what makes HN good is that most people hit the site and help with the voting. The more people who move away to reading HN remotely or through feeds.. the worse the voting situation gets.