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I don't feel attached to that total score, but it is still gouge how good or badly received a response is and how much engagement it got.

I dislike systems like GitHub where some people obviously just farm stars. Really complex problems and good code has 10-15 stars and very little engagement compared to some js helper function that cuts yours string in half.

I've done this with reddit several times as well. It seems a positive thing to me to retain a level of detachment and not get too involved in building up the karma score or trying to build some kind of reputation. I've also taken to using the randomly generated usernames that it recommends rather than customizing them.

I have a userscript which among other things hides your score. I call this feature anti narcissism switch.

I have had a single job interview where I needed to give my HN account status to proceed.

I didn't, you know, do it, but it was asked