I don’t know enough about web dev to know the performance penalty that might be ...

		nolongerthere on Feb 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings I don’t know enough about web dev to know the performance penalty that might be incurred but, has there been any experimentation with hiding the voting buttons for the first 5-15 seconds after a comment is viewed (scaled up the longer the comment is, to force the user to actually think about the comment before reacting)? Similarly to how reply is hidden for the first few minutes for hot threads.

That's an interesting idea! and no we haven't tried it. I'll add it to a list of things we might try.