[airstrike]

> Now that I have a total of 23 points in HN, I will change my password to some random one, just to cure my desire to look for votes, and try to make some work, and again some tomorrow create a new presence in HN.

If you use Stylus (or any similar browser extension), I actually wrote a style to hide points for that very reason, replacing karma and scores with `•••`

This is actually the second time I see someone mentioning this need, so I've made it into a gist and published it to userstyles, but here's it is also since it's pretty short:

    @-moz-document domain("news.ycombinator.com") {
        /* Hide karma and points on replies */
        span.pagetop #karma, span.comhead span.score {
            visibility: hidden;
            position: relative;
            display: inline-block;
            height: 10px !important;
            overflow: hidden;
        }
        span.pagetop #karma {
            width: 0.8rem !important;
        }
        span.comhead span.score {
            width: 0.8rem !important;
        }
        span.pagetop #karma::before, span.comhead span.score::before {
            content: "•••";
            visibility: visible;
            overflow: hidden;
            opacity: 0.8;
            font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;
        }
    }

https://gist.github.com/airstrike/62584e6ffb6104791c0ae48a8e...

https://userstyles.world/style/15164/hackernews-hide-karma-a...

[SV_BubbleTime]

I wish this was built in but understand the intentional abusive psychological exploit that it isn’t.