There's a paradoxical incentive to write comments about topics that nobody knows about. It is true that bad comments get downvoted on subjects where there are m

There's a paradoxical incentive to write comments about topics that nobody knows about. It is true that bad comments get downvoted on subjects where there are many experts. But there might be many of us that for no good reason would like to get access to these Hacker News features that require more karma, and could be tempted to only comments on topics where there are no experts, hoping to reap some karma points doing so.