My general answer is "I don't get karma", because I generally read Hacker News Daily (10 top-rated articles from the previous day), so though I do comment somet

My general answer is "I don't get karma", because I generally read Hacker News Daily (10 top-rated articles from the previous day), so though I do comment sometimes, my comments are almost never modded in any direction, as everyone else has moved on. I don't post things -- there's more material worth reading on the front page than I can get through already. Every once in a while I get into an interesting conversation in a subthread somewhere -- where a commenter is actually checking back -- but karma comes from the masses, not from individual conversations. It doesn't matter much, though -- I don't have enough karma to downvote, but I'm not inclined to downvote much anyway -- so it's pretty irrelevant. Are there other bonuses that high karma earn you, besides bragging rights? On Slashdot (I still go back to visit now & again...) I seem to have the right to disable ads, but obviously that wouldn't apply here.