HN has taken such a hard-right turn these past few years I've begun intentionally optimizing my karma-motivated behaviour for fluctuations in karma. Which is to say, I mentally overlay my actual karma score with a shadow score that increases whenever someone engages with something I write, either by replying, downvoting, or upvoting. A GOP downvote pile-on is now pretty good evidence of having said something truthful, especially when it's accompanied by an equally strong (or stronger) updraft of upvotes from other tendencies.

I've had half a mind to produce a browser plugin to do this for me, and apply it to everyone else as well, making the posts with the most engagement grow in `font-weight` and `font-size`, but the project is stymied by the number of snapshots and the amount of scraping I'd have to do; plus, there'd always be the possibility of missing an interaction.