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Show HN: Hide downvotes on HN

6 points by sillysaurus3 9y ago

sillysaurus3 9y ago
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 http://i.imgur.com/vPjC0uk.png To install: 1. Install Tampermonkey. - Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgf... - Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/ 2. Click "Create new script": http://i.imgur.com/OycraO1.png http://i.imgur.com/OycraO1.png 3. Copy the contents of https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sillysaurus/4d917e925548e4c7ec6f6bb96c94ef5c/raw 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.
- LinuxBender 9y ago
  That is really cool. FWIW, one could think of downvotes as kudos for thinking differently.
  - bbcbasic 9y ago
    And kudos for superb trolling
Mz 9y ago
You aren't the only person to have drawn this conclusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14406678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14406678
- sillysaurus3 9y ago
  Heh, cool. Note that my variant doesn't un-grey comments, so you'll be able to apply corrective upvotes to them.
19eightyfour 9y ago
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.
- sillysaurus3 9y ago
  You can install it persistently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456203 (Sorry that wasn't very clear.)

6 points by sillysaurus3 9y ago

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 http://i.imgur.com/vPjC0uk.png To install: 1. Install Tampermonkey. - Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgf... - Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/ 2. Click "Create new script": http://i.imgur.com/OycraO1.png http://i.imgur.com/OycraO1.png 3. Copy the contents of https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sillysaurus/4d917e925548e4c7ec6f6bb96c94ef5c/raw 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.

LinuxBender 9y ago
That is really cool. FWIW, one could think of downvotes as kudos for thinking differently.
- bbcbasic 9y ago
  And kudos for superb trolling

Mz 9y ago

You aren't the only person to have drawn this conclusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14406678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14406678

sillysaurus3 9y ago
Heh, cool. Note that my variant doesn't un-grey comments, so you'll be able to apply corrective upvotes to them.

19eightyfour 9y ago

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.

sillysaurus3 9y ago
You can install it persistently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456203 (Sorry that wasn't very clear.)