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22 pointstentacleuno20 comments

I used to care about karma points on HN only till I crossed 500 and went above that (for a buffer) so that I could get downvote privileges. Then I found that I rarely downvote or upvote, or even login. But I do browse without logging in a lot more (thanks to those who upvote or flag and make my lazy experience better).

I do like the fact that points or karma aren’t highlighted well. What I would actually like after I login is to see some indicator on anyone replying to my comments instead of the total karma score next to my username. That would be of more use to me than a points system where there’s pretty much nothing after sometime.

I'm surprised that unlike the forums I spent most of my time on when I was young, I don't really remember anyone here at all. This format is great obviously but I do miss avatars and weird personalized signatures that gave people some personality and recognizability.

I agree. World has moved on sadly. fwiw I do recognize many usernames its just not as many as an old school forum.

I'm genuinely curious how some folks get even close to this. I feel like my first post or two I did something that got all my future posts suppressed, or some such crazy thing, as my comments always end up with super low engagement, despite an effort to make the bulk of them thoughtful and useful.

Umm... Yeah... I think you might be shadow banned.

I'm genuinely curious how some folks get even close to this.

One way to get on the list is to make a lot of politics-related posts.

Another technique to get a lot of karma (don't know about top-10 level karma) is to continually re-post submissions made years ago.

It largely rewards time spent on the site. The top karma user has more comments in the past four days than you do in the past year.

Your first comment got flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15798502 I hope you see why.

If you email the mods, they'll probably unban you.

I was indeed. They did unban after an email. I had seen mention of it before, and contemplated emailing them to ask, but hadn't done it to this point. Thank you for your comment. I could indeed see why they originally did. Apparently they try to monitor for cases such as mine, but mine had slipped by.

How is dang not there?

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang

It looks like they should be in 85th place?

    select * from users where admin = 0 order by karma desc limit 100

There appear to be a few people who are intentionally excluded from the list. Notice for example that pg himself is not listed, despite having 156,000+ karma.

I like chasing (relatively) arbitrary things (current flavor is a random addiction to trying to speed run Tony Hawk Pro Skater remastered levels, go figure, but I digress).

Anywho, saw this list early in my now almost-decade old lifetime on HN and wanted to try to join the ranks. Gave up a while ago, but now seeing the list on the front page here is making me itchy to participate more…

Surprised not to see Walter Bright, I don’t know his score but seems like the in depth answers get a lot of points.

He's on the list.

He's on this list at 54.

>25. coldtea 73212

This ranking is a constant proof that I should "get a life" :)

> 99. hn_throwaway_99

Whoa, I have to wonder if they adjust their score all the time to remain in 99th place? Or, more plausibly: coincidences are coincidency

Good to know the threshold to stay under. Thanks for the heads up.

I feel very inadequate now :(

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