What if you had a script that hid downvotes? Or one that used an unknown algorithm to hide all downvotes and also some upvotes so a lack of upvotes could still mean that you really got upvoted? Or maybe one that added fake downvotes so that you would never have certain knowledge of having been really downvoted? Etc. Personally I like your commenting and would enjoy more of it.
because a) The very rationality habits I’ve learnt here finds it extremely anaesthetic to hide information from myself like that. b) My brain would default to assuming everything that might have been downvoted has so, and thus only have problems more often. c) The culture that having the voting system in general causes would still be there, and what really hurts is the status loss from people wanting to downvote me, not losing the arbitrary point total.
What if you had a script that hid downvotes? Or one that used an unknown algorithm to hide all downvotes and also some upvotes so a lack of upvotes could still mean that you really got upvoted? Or maybe one that added fake downvotes so that you would never have certain knowledge of having been really downvoted? Etc. Personally I like your commenting and would enjoy more of it.
because a) The very rationality habits I’ve learnt here finds it extremely anaesthetic to hide information from myself like that. b) My brain would default to assuming everything that might have been downvoted has so, and thus only have problems more often. c) The culture that having the voting system in general causes would still be there, and what really hurts is the status loss from people wanting to downvote me, not losing the arbitrary point total.