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Yeah, I hate svbtle for exactly that reason. Despite kudos being a thoroughly meaningless number, the kudos widget makes me feel like I'm nine years old and I j

• daveloyall 12y ago
  What? ...But, yeah, exactly. :) Various searches on the subject revealed plenty of people noting how meaningless Internet points are, leading to an additional meta-rub: not only did I fall for the hover trick, I also was childish enough to google for a svbtle kudos undo. sigh
  • roryokane 12y ago
    I wouldn’t say that kudos are totally meaningless, nor your quest to undo yours. By displaying kudos on their article, the author falsely purports to have more fans (implied by the name “kudos”) than they really do. By attempting to correct that number, you were fighting against (slight) false advertisement, which could cause other visitors to waste their time reading an article that you don’t actually recommend. Though bumping the number by 1 has a negligible effect, fixing all bumps that people were tricked into making would probably save many internet readers a small amount of time.