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		gnosis on April 12, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Notice: Experimenting with HN I'd like to suggest a simple improvement: Hide the number of votes a given comment has received until after you've voted on it. After a given user has voted on a given comment, the number of votes that comment has received can be revealed to the user who voted on it. I don't see much downside to this. It would discourage voting with the herd, and at the same time encourage people to vote.

dominostars on April 12, 2011 [–]

This might encourage people to vote only to see the vote total.

nikcub on April 12, 2011 | [–]

I hope your comment got more votes than the suggestion

If only there were a way to find out

dominostars on April 12, 2011 | | [–]

You can just upvote it and see. Trust me..

Anyway, it makes no difference, unless an abundance of karma will make my comment the parent one.

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