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This is my least favorite thing about HN, because it strongly reinforces groupthink. I'd much rather have the number of upvotes and downvotes visible, like Redd

This is my least favorite thing about HN, because it strongly reinforces groupthink. I'd much rather have the number of upvotes and downvotes visible, like Reddit, and leave the styling of the text unchanged.

LinuxBender 5y ago
If you happen to have NoScript installed, you can add something like this to the My filters ycombinator.com##.c00:style(color: #000 !important; ) ycombinator.com##.c5a:style(color: #000 !important; ) ycombinator.com##.c73:style(color: #000 !important; ) ycombinator.com##.c82:style(color: #000 !important; ) ycombinator.com##.c88:style(color: #000 !important; ) ycombinator.com##.c9c:style(color: #000 !important; ) ycombinator.com##.cae:style(color: #000 !important; ) ycombinator.com##.cbe:style(color: #000 !important; ) ycombinator.com##.cce:style(color: #000 !important; ) ycombinator.com##.cdd:style(color: #000 !important; ) Change the color to match your preference.
- fighterpilot 5y ago
  It'd be cool to have an option in the user's HN profile/account that they can toggle if they want to hide the greying out
inglor_cz 5y ago
Have the admins of HN ever defended their decision to grey out downvoted comments with some good arguments? Because reading a text thread where the color of the text constantly changes is rather annoying.
kingsuper20 5y ago
Personally, I think that voting is ridiculous, but I see the point. It's one of the strongest methodologies for making a discussion board addictive. I think an interesting feature to add would be to have peoples' user areas show how many downvotes they have spewed forth.