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I've been doing an experiment on reddit to reduce its emotional impact on me, which is to hide all points. I was inspired by HN's approach of not showing you other commenter's points.

It works quite well. I'm much more true to myself and get into fewer combative situations. I bet it would reduce complaining to mods on HN as well. The site could still use points exactly the way it does behind the scenes, but users would be less concerned about their own status.

>>operat+(OP)
It's on my list to make it a profile option to hide all points/karma things.

Hiding it for everyone would be more radical and kind of scary to me. But we could maybe try it temporarly just to see what happens.

>>operat+(OP)
I used this method on reddit myself. It's just a userstyle, so I turn it off occasionally, but it makes it a voluntary action I have to turn back on if I want to see it.

Helped out, I think. Along with carefully practicing not escalating and picking when to just not comment.