Well, if you're talking about the karma threshold to be able to use the flag and downvote buttons on HN, it's really not that hard to reach that level. One of

Well, if you're talking about the karma threshold to be able to use the flag and downvote buttons on HN, it's really not that hard to reach that level. One of my main use cases for HN is as a bookmarking service. I find something interesting, I post it with the bookmarklet. Same as I do with OneNote, except HN is faster. That's where the overwhelming lion's share of whatever collection of internet points I have amassed has come from. Frequently from the very least interesting of the articles that I post... Just this week, I wracked up some ridiculous number of points from a throw-away release about Juypiter notebooks supporting F# that came up in one of the newsletters I get.