grobstein comments on LessWrong anti-kibitzer (hides comment authors and vote counts) - Less Wrong

59 Post author: Marcello 09 March 2009 07:18PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 March 2009 09:58:06PM 18 points [-]

If the main Less Wrong codebase offered an option to hide the names of contributors and non-negative karma point totals (because negatives you may want to let your eyes just skip over), not revealing them until voted on (including a neutral vote)...

...then what would you think of only giving half a karma point for any votes made without obscuring the name and current total? (Likewise any votes changed after the reveal.) Fair? Or just annoying?

Comment author: grobstein 10 March 2009 06:09:52PM 1 point [-]

Simply annoying from a usability point of view. It requires you to know too surely which posts you will want to vote on and which authors you'll want to know; if you care about the value of your karmic vote you'll wind up interfering with your enjoyment of the posts to preserve its value; etc.