Hello friends!

Please upvote this self post for which I receive no karma. It's important and we need you folks to read it.

We're going to be trying out the score hiding system on our subreddit for the next couple of weeks as a bit of an experiment. The thing is, us mods are not going to be affected by it, so our browsing experience is not going to be affected in any significant way.

Why are we doing this, you might ask. Well, I've seen my fair share of people post that they're not going to answer a question due to the fact that someone else had already answered it and gotten the top spot in the comments.

I don't like that. It's not a contest. If you like the question you should answer it, even if someone else has already posted an answer, to hell with whether or not it'll make the top post. I've posted more than my fair share of answers that got maybe 2 upvotes, and I knew they'd never see the light of day, but that's okay.

Hopefully this change will help cut down on this happening, because for the first 8 hours that a post has been created it will not display the upvotes/downvotes tally.

We need your help.

How can you help? Well, simply continue to browse ELIAMA, post, answer questions, etc., but pay more attention to how you feel when you're doing so. After you've got yourself a solid opinion on the score hiding, post it here in this thread.

We need your opinions.

So get out there and get to work and let us know what you think!

A couple reminders:

1. Be sure to message the mods when you report a post. It will be attended to faster, and we'll know why you reported it.

2. Remember to read over the sidebar now and again! If there are any big rule changes we will make a modpost, but it never hurts to stay informed. There's even a link to a guide to our flair!

TL;DR - We're hiding comment scores to encourage people to post their answers. We need your feedback. In a couple weeks we'll make a decision on whether to keep it or not.

If you have any questions, post them here, and I'll answer them the best I can.

Edit: God my sides hurt. Thanks so much everyone. I am seriously considering printing and framing some of these comments.

And what's this? My own flair? I'M A REAL BOY!

Edit: So many upvotes.. the first time i've seen so many on one of my posts! i'm honored. Thanks for the upvotes..

IT WAS ALL FOR HONEY YOU BITCHES

Because when you play that much Civ, it's tough keeping up on current affairs.

EDIT: so I'm gonna try tomorrow and combine everyone's contribution into one piece of text. Thanks for everyone contributing. It seriously has made day way more awesome.

ALSO, if anyone's interested, I'd like to get a sub together with something like this. I can see it spanning fro more than just AD. Maybe Seinfeld, or other great shows. Any ideas, or anything?

EDIT 2: thanks /u/KeepYourPantheon for compiling it all into an actual script!

And thanks to /u/huckler for making a subreddit dedicated to collaborative Arrested Development stories! /r/ArrestedDeveloping.

It's been a blast everyone, thanks for contributing!