Comment by kldg

as an aside, the ranking/rating systems are largely why I quit using social media a long time ago and stick to a small chatroom of people I know. it's relatively tolerable here where scores aren't next to posts (and the user base generally tolerant, lets whoever say their piece and move on), but I use following ublock filter to hide the score stuff:

news.ycombinator.com###karma

news.ycombinator.com##.score

news.ycombinator.com##td:has-text(/^karma:$/):upward(tr)

I've thought about removing the graying feature and maybe doing a random sort of replies, but haven't accumulated enough spite yet.