Show HN: Hide downvotes on HN

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6 points·sillysaurus3··7 comments

I wrote this Tampermonkey script to modify HN in two ways:

- Hide your comment scores

- Scramble your karma counters

This prevents you from knowing immediately when your comments have been upvoted or downvoted. Your submissions are left alone.

Here's what that looks like: http://i.imgur.com/vPjC0uk.png

To install:

1. Install Tampermonkey.

- Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgf...

- Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/

2. Click "Create new script": http://i.imgur.com/OycraO1.png

3. Copy the contents of https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sillysaurus/4d917e925548e... and paste it into the new script.

4. Click the save icon in the upper-left.

Why?

HN downvotes sometimes feel like a slap in the face. This was ok when HN was small, since downvotes were used judiciously. Now that HN is very large, I find it's much more pleasant to browse HN with this script enabled.

That is really cool.

FWIW, one could think of downvotes as kudos for thinking differently.

And kudos for superb trolling

You aren't the only person to have drawn this conclusion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14406678

Heh, cool. Note that my variant doesn't un-grey comments, so you'll be able to apply corrective upvotes to them.

That's the most valuable text I've ever copy and pasted on HN.

It seems to work if you just paste it into console.

You can install it persistently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456203

(Sorry that wasn't very clear.)

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