Again without defending past!me’s decision, we deliberate thought it would be a bad idea to have some of the participants able to see karma and some unable to. Karma is an important part of the social landscape that some people would be missing.
Fair. I was not clear above, but, by “in the same way that one can currently activate a feature to hide the names of users”, I meant that karma could be invisible by defaul if the feature is activated, but then show up once one hovers over the karma placeholder.
A thought I want to leave for posterity and because I just linked this conversation to someone: I really would like the comment hiding to also hide agree/disagree votes. I’m nervous about people feeling more pressure to disagree-vote in this world.
Also while I’m at it I should note that, as evidence of the feature being under-baked: someone reported it to me as a bug 😅
Again without defending past!me’s decision, we deliberate thought it would be a bad idea to have some of the participants able to see karma and some unable to. Karma is an important part of the social landscape that some people would be missing.
I see, although I think one can argue it should not be possible to hide users’ names based on the same argument.
If I were defending my past decision, I’d say that you’d probably hover over the usernames after reading and before you reply.
Fair. I was not clear above, but, by “in the same way that one can currently activate a feature to hide the names of users”, I meant that karma could be invisible by defaul if the feature is activated, but then show up once one hovers over the karma placeholder.
Ah, I see. I don’t hate that at all.
A thought I want to leave for posterity and because I just linked this conversation to someone: I really would like the comment hiding to also hide agree/disagree votes. I’m nervous about people feeling more pressure to disagree-vote in this world.
Also while I’m at it I should note that, as evidence of the feature being under-baked: someone reported it to me as a bug 😅