quila comments on quila’s Shortform

[quila]

Here’s a tampermonkey script that hides the agreement score on LessWrong. I wasn’t enjoying this feature because I don’t want my perception to be influenced by that; I want to judge purely based on ideas, and on my own.

Here’s what it looks like:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Hide LessWrong Agree/Disagree Votes
// @namespace    http://​​tampermonkey.net/​​
//​ @version      1.0
//​ @description  Hide agree/​disagree votes on LessWrong comments.
//​ @author       ChatGPT4
//​ @match        https://​​www.lesswrong.com/​​*
//​ @grant        none
//​ ==/​UserScript==

(function() {
    ‘use strict’;

    //​ Function to hide agree/​disagree votes
    function hideVotes() {
        //​ Select all elements representing agree/​disagree votes
        var voteElements = document.querySelectorAll(‘.AgreementVoteAxis-voteScore’);

        //​ Loop through each element and hide it
        voteElements.forEach(function(element) {
            element.style.display = ‘none’;
        });
    }

    //​ Run the function when the page loads
    hideVotes();

    //​ Optionally, set up a MutationObserver to hide votes on dynamically loaded content
    var observer = new MutationObserver(function() {
        hideVotes();
    });

    //​ Start observing the document for changes
    observer.observe(document, { childList: true, subtree: true });
})();

[Mir]

I don’t know the full original reasoning for why they introduced it, but one hope is that it marginally disentangles agreement from the main voting axis. People who were going to upvote based purely on agreement will now put their vote in the agreement axis instead (is the hope, anyway). Agreement-voting is socioepistemologically bad in general (except for in polls), so this seems good.