But the issue is not one of displaying or not displaying, the issue is one of functionality, of votes not being counted.<p>If you do not display the votes but you do pretend that you're counting them you have not solved the problem at all.<p>On an 'average' forum that sort of trick might work but HN is populated by some of the smartest people I have run in to in the last 20 years or so and it will not take them much work at all to find out whether or not their votes are counted.<p>I can already think of two ways right of the bat.