Unrelated: Previously on HN, I could generally trust that a semi-random link with a lot of votes was likely to be useful and not unsafe. Guinea pigs had gone before me. Now, if I didn't recognise skitch.com from having seen it a couple of times, I wouldn't know if this was safe and informative or just a new, dangerous link.

I checked 'lm741' and they have a karma of 1 but joined a while ago, so has this not been voted up (and is risky) or did they previously get slammed and this has been voted up (and is probably safe)?

[I clicked the link and voted lm741 up as it seems safe enough; just commenting on a side value of the visible vote count that we no longer get.]