Honestly, I feel like part of being an accessibility person is recognizing that edge cases are legit use cases, and should be respected. Why is my social anxiety more important than your pain/fatigue/brain fog? (I'd be curious to see Rah's take on this, because she cares passionately about the site health but also is frequently fighting overwhelming pain and medication-fog.)(When I have too much pain to be interact, I just have too much pain to be in a good enough mood to kudos anything. Pain makes me into more of a dick.)

I think there'd be workarounds for my concerns which would make more people happy. Hiding kudos counts, batching kudos notifications daily (as the AO3 does), having kudos be something a user needs to enable, and not allowing kudos to come up in any site metrics or sorting algorithms, all would go a long way to help address my concerns.

I worried for a long time about how paternalistic this attitude of mine is, but it's not about protecting users from themselves, it's about protecting dreamwidth from becoming a community that encourages gaming the system for cheap viral hits: paid instagrammers, fake news, et al.