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Ask HN: What can you with a lot of karma on HN
Since there is a interesting thread on HN about how people get karma.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10552122
It would interesting to see what is this karma used for?
- SimplyUseless 11y agoWe essentially have 1. Upvotes & Downvotes on articles and comments (This is what HN wants - insights by crowdsourcing) 2. Reputation (this is the fruit the users want) 3. Gaming (HN gaming the users by rewarding/denying the fruit) - Reward (unlocking site features)
- jgrahamc 11y agoNothing
- ColinWright 11y agoI have 80628 karma. That and £4 will get you a coffee in London. Edit Less cynically, it reassures you that you are "in sync" with the HN culture. It is correlated with the idea that what you post and/or what you say is found interesting and/or useful to those who hang out here. There are things I post that I think are important, but which get little or no attention. There are other things I post that get lots of upvotes but which I think are less important. That's the way it goes - we have smart-phones to look at pictures of cats, and argue with strangers. However, as the article you reference says, mostly it says that you've been here a long time, and posted many times. In short, it's cumulative. And now I have 80629.
- DanBC 11y agoThere's a minimal karma level required to get the flag button. There's a somewhat higher (500? 750?) karma level to get the downvote button. There's a karma level to get the ability to change the top bar colour. I'm not sure if karma is used to place comments on a page - someone with high average karma may find their comments appearing higher on a page (and then rising or falling based on votes on that comment). Other than that, nothing.
- lucozade 11y agoI was hoping it'd allow me to come back as a giraffe. Have I come to the wrong site for that?