new accounts/submissions until I hit a gold mine, something that generated a ton of karma. This would make my initial HIndex very high, and give me 2nd, 3rd, an

new accounts/submissions until I hit a gold mine, something that generated a ton of karma. This would make my initial HIndex very high, and give me 2nd, 3rd, and 4th posts a much larger edge. I think this is exactly what the HIndex is designed to avoid. One jackpot high karma value only gives you HIndex "1". Two gives you HIndex "2", and so on. The HIndex rewards a broad pattern where nearly every comment gets consistently well upvoted, rather than lots of ordinary comments and the occasional massive jackpot. It's closer to the median than the mean. Also my biggest pet peve with HN is often times really good thought out comments go overlooked I agree. I think that, in general, karma should be viewed as generalised encouragement for the HN community to stay helpful and informative, rather than as tightly coupled to how helpful and informative each individual comment is.