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Comment by LukeB_UK | Hacker News Reader

I prefer that HN doesn't say the score of other people's comments, it means you have more power to make your own mind up rather than the vote brigading or "piling on" that can happen on Reddit

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I second that, at least have a score hidden functionality that hides the score of messages for a period of time (say 2-12 hours) and also ensure that the score cannot affect the color of the font during that time.

What about after one has made up one's mind, though? Then it could be interesting to compare what one think oneself, with what others think. Then, when one wants to do that, one could click the show-how-other-people-have-voted button, to find out.

It depends on how much granularity you desire I suppose. If you downvote and then see the post turn gray or see it turn gray a few minutes afterwards, that's feed back in a sense. Same for if a vote rises to the top in a thread. You get hints of how a comment does, just not a number. The uncertainty there gives you an idea of the communities feelings while not allowing you to split hairs "comment x in thread y has +4 while comment z in thread w (y!=w) has +3, let me down x to make it consistent with z (I hate x's guts anyway)."

I would imagine there's a high risk of cognitive bias prior to even reading it.

I guess I'll find out when I can see the score of more than just the story itself and my own comments...

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