I can do without the vote and karma numbers, but comment numbers are important (mainly in order to see whether or not there are any comments, and if there are a

I can do without the vote and karma numbers, but comment numbers are important (mainly in order to see whether or not there are any comments, and if there are a lot of comments; not to determine whether or not the article itself is worth anything, which is something that the reader must decide for himself). If some users want those numbers visible and some not, one way to do is to add <span class="karma"> around those numbers in order that users can hide them if they want to do.