If this isn’t giving you any pleasure, why read/comment at all?

I’m getting pleasure (or something) from the discussion, not from the numbers. I’m getting anxiety and toxicity from the numbers. And I’m not claiming that everyone else is or should be like me in this or most other ways.

Yeah, I mean this might my personal deficiency that other people don’t have… but if I see a comment I disagree with and then I see that it has been upmodded heavily, I get a greatly increased urgency to shit on that comment to make people see how wrong it is. Totally toxic and encouraged by the scoring system.

Exactly! So why even display it?

You don’t have to see the scores of peoples’ comments. It’s awesome! But perhaps you don’t derive anxiety from those numbers, lucky you if so.

I guess I’m looking for verification if I’m in the majority or minority here.