Same here.

I hover over links to see where they go, comics to see their title text, and vote-buttons to see where they're from. That shouldn't and does not indicate my approval of this article, and I can't reverse it.

That's a good point - I'll mention this to dcurtis, who runs svbtle. Certainly don't want to sucker anyone into liking something they in fact do not!

It is deliberate on his part http://dcurt.is/unkudo

Interesting, I wonder how many of those 6342+ kudos were as a result of people testing what he was talking about.

> meaningless number

To nitpick, if it was really meaningless, it shouldn't be part of the page, atleast not under the title "kudos" or under the disguise of endorsements by X people. Well so it carries as much meaning as a Facebook like button.

Regardless, I would care more for the content of a page than the brand or endorsements it received.

Exactly. "A meaningless number, prominently displayed."

His joke's on us.

So he knows it's meaningless, why is it even there?

Consider the possibility that he's lying when he says it's meaningless.

You can reverse it by doing it again or clicking or something. Still a bad UI and one I can't verify on my iPhone.

I remember reversing it once upon a time, but am not able to replicate it now.

this is part of the popular svbtle blog network theme and the obtvse theme copied from it. You'll see this theme used on at least 1/3 of the blogs posted on here, I've always been against the whole "mouseover-as-action" thing too.

Just wanna point out, Obtvse did not copy the "kudos" thing, precisely because its author had the same complaint.

https://obtvse.herokuapp.com/

There's also a new branch that looks very different: http://natewienert.com/

You might be thinking of WP-Svbtle which is closer to an exact copy.

Apologies for making an off-topic "correction" like this, but Nate Wienert seems like a nice guy so I hate to see his project unfairly accused.

my mistake, I didn't follow the events particularly closely; thanks for the correction.

Er...It's how Svbtle works...It's not OP's fault.

The author chose to be on Svbtle, yes?

oh?

My mistake then

Dear Svbtl. -one kudo in general. THEN -another kudo for having a stupid system. In fact, -two.