Show HN: Calliagnosia – 50 lines of CSS to hide karma on HN and more https://pastebin.com/raw/4NJKDeZj I'm probably not the first one to do this. I wrote some CSS that hides all instances of popularity (i.e. karma and comment counts) on HN, lobste.rs, and old.reddit. What motivated this? It was my tendency to ignore possibly-bespoke submissions simply because they had less than X points. Hiding karma might not be for everyone, but I'd encourage giving it a go and seeing how your behavior changes. Here's how HN front looks for me: https://i.imgur.com/AKmc6Ak.png I named this user style after the beauty-recognition-disabling tech from a Ted Chiang story:
Currently I load the CSS at document-start using Greasemonkey on Firefox, though pasting it on any user-CSS browser extension would do (like Stylish, Styler, etc). |
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