alt Hacker News> Personally, I’d prefer no up-/downvoting and flagging at all (or flagging only to alert moderators), and purely chronological threading.
I think that's a very different kind of forum, and it needs different tools to be usable, and it more quickly fails into unusability.
It’s how old-style forums work, and I’m still on a couple of them. It functions quite well with the right moderation.