Do I understand this correctly, that you can only make likes invisible to yourself?
This seems about as useful as the "if you don't like it, just pretend it isn't there" school of moderation - namely not useful at all.
Humans are social beings and acutely aware of status indicators. A like count is a status indicator, even if a stupid one.
By hiding the count for everyone, the indicator would be removed, which I imagine could actually make some change. But if a user can only remove the count for themselves, fully knowing that everyone else is still seeing it, I don't see how anything more is archieved than putting thrm as a disadvantage and potentially causing even more anxiety.
> Do I understand this correctly, that you can only make likes invisible to yourself?
> This seems about as useful as the "if you don't like it, just pretend it isn't there" school of moderation - namely not useful at all.
But a feature like that makes "pretending it isn't there" much, much easier. I know from experience: Metafilter has had a similar feature for at least a decade, and it does help lessen a lot of the negative psychological effects caused by "likes."
This seems about as useful as the "if you don't like it, just pretend it isn't there" school of moderation - namely not useful at all.
Humans are social beings and acutely aware of status indicators. A like count is a status indicator, even if a stupid one.
By hiding the count for everyone, the indicator would be removed, which I imagine could actually make some change. But if a user can only remove the count for themselves, fully knowing that everyone else is still seeing it, I don't see how anything more is archieved than putting thrm as a disadvantage and potentially causing even more anxiety.