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>If a user has 251 Karma, they can set the color of the top bar in their profile settings

Why on earth is there a karma requirement for this, let alone such a high one?

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97573

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I have exactly 251 karma, this is so exciting

user: mereel

created: July 21, 2017

karma: 250

You guys don't have to be mean…

Hahaha now I'm at 271

Nice! Consider this your rare opportunity to talk about your karma without repercussion. Don't make it a habit, though; I'm sure you have better things to talk about anyways ;)

Think of it like a video game, which often gives people surprises by unlocking the hidden feature based on unclear conditions. I was really impressed was I discovered it for the first time. This feature is more of a Easter egg than a practical option.

If you really NEED to change the color, you can simply load a custom CSS in your web browser.

Maybe we should add another. Any ideas?

We really should have more Easter eggs.

I was disappointed that nothing unusual happened to my "past-life account" with 1000+ karma.

It would be awesome to be able to see the up and down vote counts on comments. If you think showing that might adversely affect HN, you could make that super exclusive, like requiring over 10k in karma ;)

Maybe top 5 users (by karma count) get to change their username color? Would be another meaningless change on theme.

Please no.

Didn't pg try something like this once?

I vaguely remember that, and that it lasted extremely briefly.

I think those of us in top 5 auto-stigmatize about that fact enough without needing an explicit caste system, which are _impossible to make meaningless_.

Enhance/increase the font size, the size of the voting buttons, the gap between the voting buttons, and the size of the collapse buttons for users who have more than 50 karma (they must have perseverance and patience to stick around, so why not reward them)? I really find the usability of these very difficult and hit the wrong one many a times. Simplicity is nice, but going through HN comments and acting on them is painful, more so on touchscreen devices.

If you hit the threshold, enabling the flag for you, then you are downvoted below the threshold, do you lose access to the feature as well?

I was kind of disappointed when I found out about this because I had already written a Userscript to do it for me

Why do you have to collect coins just to change Mario's shirt?

Because gamification?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification

It's not meant to be taken seriously.

But this is Hacker News, we have to take everything seriously.

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