Three additional points: 1) Funny one liners have to be fucking hilarious to be voted up. Best to avoid attempts at humor altogether when it comes to HN. 2)

Three additional points: 1) Funny one liners have to be fucking hilarious to be voted up. Best to avoid attempts at humor altogether when it comes to HN. 2) If you're going to post something, remember to make it concise. Just like in the real world, tight and digestible comments get better play than huge walls of text. 3) Ignore karma in general. People will often vote you up or down for stupid reasons so if you're going against the prevailing opinion you'll get a much lower score than anything people agree with [1]. Also time spent worrying about karma is time you could spend worrying about things that actually matter in your life. [1] This isn't unique to HN, people naturally think more favorably about people who agree with them.