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musou wrote

If the numbers were less visible, or entirely hidden, everyone might live more meaningful, more productive lives online, using posts as means to ends rather than as circulations within the system.

i want to make a custom stylesheet for this site that hides upvote totals on posts and comments for this reason. this is a small site where the numbers don't really matter, but my lizard brain still likes watching numbers go up and i think i would be a lot happier if it didn't.

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devtesla wrote

I think keeping numbers around for transparency purposes would be good, but I'd like to make them much less prominent.

One really cool thing about this software is that it doesn't keep karma totals, so that's just something you never have to think about lol.

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musou wrote

that's a good point, maybe just making it so you have to highlight the number then

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