I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that Arc/clarc would be modified as news is modified (Arc sort of being built around news in the first place).

I just wouldn't expect there to be hn specific sauce in clarc that would make sense to excise if opening up clarc; AFAIK it's been stated that there's some secret sauce wrt fighting spam, detecting voting rings and so on...

Then again, thinking more about it, it sounds reasonable that some of that might land on the Arc/clarc side, not in news.

[Ed: I think that turned out quite well]