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[Feature request] Hide total karma count on user profiles (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A setting to hide the total karma count on user profiles (including your own) would be nice to have. I don't really care to see that stuff myself, and karma doesn't even mean anything on Lemmy either way. Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why? Just do not open profiles? And even if you do, why not just ignore the counter? I do not see any benefit in this function.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Conversely, I don’t see any downside to it. If it's added and you don't like it, then just don't use the setting. It doesn't affect you. Other lemmy apps have this setting and anyone who wants to use it uses it. No real reason for it not to be added.

I prefer not to see karma scores, not on my profile or any other. Karma ruined reddit for me with the karma rat race that caused so many low effort posts and comments. And no, I'm not going to just never go to user profiles on account of this. If profiles weren't meant to be accessible, then they wouldn't be publicly visible at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If there's no real upside and no real downside, there's no point adding it. Why would the developer spend time on a feature that provides nearly no value when there are more pressing things to spend time on like bugs or major features?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol as if a tiny visual toggle to remove a UI element from appearing in a single screen is so time and labor intensive that it's going to make it completely impossible for the developer to work on "more pressing things". If it's such a hassle to add and has no benefit, why did every other lemmy app developer add it to their apps, without anyone even needing to ask for it in the first place for that matter?

Just because you don't see a benefit in it or refuse to doesn't mean it isn't a useful feature, otherwise it wouldn't be in any of the other apps at all. And this post is a "feature request" not a "feature demand", I didn't ask that the feature be given some kind of special attention, just put it out there that it would be useful to have. If you don't like that, move on. The post wasn't addressed to you, it was addressed to the developer, so you speaking on his behalf on what he may or may not consider a useful or time-intensive feature to add doesn't really have any value to me.