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.