4 ms·

Did not even realise there was a leaderboard for HN karma. I stopped tracking my own karma score a while back. I was getting upset by even a handful of downvo

Did not even realise there was a leaderboard for HN karma. I stopped tracking my own karma score a while back. I was getting upset by even a handful of downvotes, and as soon as I decided to just publish my thoughts without caring about down (or up) votes, my happiness went up quite a few notches.

lisper 8y ago
> Did not even realise there was a leaderboard for HN karma. It's a well kept secret. And I've been much happier since I stopped looking at it, but every now and then I fall off the wagon and sneak a peek.
- cyberferret 8y ago
  Well, I implore you to do us all a favour and NOT publish the link to the leaderboard... :)
  - lisper 8y ago
    Wouldn't dream of it.
catacombs 8y ago
For the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
- nostrademons 8y ago
  It actually used to be one of the top tabs but was removed when PG realized that people trying to score points off each other hurt the quality of discussion. IIRC it was the same time that point totals for each comment were hidden from everyone but the author.
  - jacquesm 8y ago
    Credit to user jackowayed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460631
  - mcv 8y ago
    Maybe it would be a good idea to hide your own total karma too. It's always right there on the top right, and I can't help looking at it. And I feel happy and proud when that number has gone up, and upset when it has gone down. Much more useful would be notifications of people responding to my comments, or maybe even people continuing discussions that I'm interested in. It's easy to lose track of those if I haven't posted in them.
    - purple_ducks 8y ago
      tampermonkey script to do just that (would be nicer if HN could pop the karma into a span with an id :-) ) // ==UserScript== // @name hide HN karma // @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/ http://tampermonkey.net/ // @version 0.1 // @description hide HN karma // @author You // @match https://news.ycombinator.com/* https://news.ycombinator.com/* // @grant none // ==/UserScript== (function() { 'use strict'; if(document.getElementById('me') !== null){ //hide karma Array.from(document.getElementById('me').parentElement.childNodes) .filter(x => x.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE) .forEach(y => {y.textContent=' '}) //remove link to profile page let me = document.getElementById('me'); let newme = document.createElement('span'); newme.textContent = me.textContent; me.parentElement.replaceChild(newme,me) ; } })();
      - gpvos 8y ago
        Thanks, I was looking into that earlier today but postponed it exactly because there was no element with an id, so I'd had to look up stuff to write it.
        purple_ducks 8y ago

lisper 8y ago

> Did not even realise there was a leaderboard for HN karma. It's a well kept secret. And I've been much happier since I stopped looking at it, but every now and then I fall off the wagon and sneak a peek.

cyberferret 8y ago
Well, I implore you to do us all a favour and NOT publish the link to the leaderboard... :)
- lisper 8y ago
  Wouldn't dream of it.

catacombs 8y ago

For the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

nostrademons 8y ago
It actually used to be one of the top tabs but was removed when PG realized that people trying to score points off each other hurt the quality of discussion. IIRC it was the same time that point totals for each comment were hidden from everyone but the author.
- jacquesm 8y ago
  Credit to user jackowayed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460631
- mcv 8y ago
  Maybe it would be a good idea to hide your own total karma too. It's always right there on the top right, and I can't help looking at it. And I feel happy and proud when that number has gone up, and upset when it has gone down. Much more useful would be notifications of people responding to my comments, or maybe even people continuing discussions that I'm interested in. It's easy to lose track of those if I haven't posted in them.
  - purple_ducks 8y ago
    tampermonkey script to do just that (would be nicer if HN could pop the karma into a span with an id :-) ) // ==UserScript== // @name hide HN karma // @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/ http://tampermonkey.net/ // @version 0.1 // @description hide HN karma // @author You // @match https://news.ycombinator.com/* https://news.ycombinator.com/* // @grant none // ==/UserScript== (function() { 'use strict'; if(document.getElementById('me') !== null){ //hide karma Array.from(document.getElementById('me').parentElement.childNodes) .filter(x => x.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE) .forEach(y => {y.textContent=' '}) //remove link to profile page let me = document.getElementById('me'); let newme = document.createElement('span'); newme.textContent = me.textContent; me.parentElement.replaceChild(newme,me) ; } })();
    - gpvos 8y ago
      Thanks, I was looking into that earlier today but postponed it exactly because there was no element with an id, so I'd had to look up stuff to write it.
      - purple_ducks 8y ago