20 votes

UserScript that hides votes like in the recent experiment

Posted by unknown user
Tags: votes, userscripts

For those who want to prolong the experiment, here is a userscript to help:

// ==UserScript==
// @name     tildes
// @version  2
// @grant    none
// @namespace   tildes.net
// @include     https://tildes.net/*
// ==/UserScript==

document.querySelectorAll('.is-comment-mine .comment-votes').forEach((v) => v.parentNode.removeChild(v));

['.btn-post-action[name="vote"]', '.btn-post-action[name="unvote"]'].forEach((sel) =>
  document.querySelectorAll(sel).forEach((b) => b.innerText = b.innerText.replace(/ \(.*/, '')));

I am fairly sure that this syntax requires ES6, so if your browser is not compatible, you need to reimplement this using ES5. Should be straightforward but a bit more verbose.

5 comments

  1. [4]
    Wes
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    Nice work. I was thinking of doing the same thing (though probably as a userstyle instead of userscript). I'll be curious to see what the conclusions will be from the experiment. I'd be glad to...

    Nice work. I was thinking of doing the same thing (though probably as a userstyle instead of userscript).

    I'll be curious to see what the conclusions will be from the experiment. I'd be glad to see the removal of scores made permanent, as I felt like I enjoyed browsing more that way. Also okay would be a user pref to hide them (though I still don't enjoy being judged on my own visible score so much). But we'll see! The feedback seemed pretty mixed as a whole so I don't know what to expect.

    Writing a style/script seems like a good way to go in the mean time. That's my current approach to hiding votes on reddit as well (who will never remove karma).

    4 votes
    1. [3]
      unknown user
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      It would be great if you could make it as a user style. That was what I thought of doing at first but I don't think you can use regular expressions in CSS.

      It would be great if you could make it as a user style. That was what I thought of doing at first but I don't think you can use regular expressions in CSS.

      5 votes
      1. [2]
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        1. unknown user
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          Thanks! Can't test it now but can't you use content: for the elements themselves instead of :after?

          Thanks! Can't test it now but can't you use content: for the elements themselves instead of :after?

          3 votes
      2. Wes
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        Ah good point. I thought I would just display: none any relevant vote selectors, but I guess the Vote buttons have the totals on them. You could probably do a hack with max-width and overflow:...

        Ah good point. I thought I would just display: none any relevant vote selectors, but I guess the Vote buttons have the totals on them.

        You could probably do a hack with max-width and overflow: hidden or something, but that's not so clean.

        Maybe I'd submit a quick PR to get a span tag on the button. :)

        1 vote
  2. [2]
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    1. unknown user
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      No problem! Just noticed a bug tho: when you upvote a comment, it displays the number of upvotes. Goes away after a reload tho.

      No problem! Just noticed a bug tho: when you upvote a comment, it displays the number of upvotes. Goes away after a reload tho.

      3 votes