Not at all. This is a place I post my honest thoughts on things regardless of the points. Sometimes I'm downvoted, even ridiculed(perhaps fairly), and I take

Not at all. This is a place I post my honest thoughts on things regardless of the points. Sometimes I'm downvoted, even ridiculed(perhaps fairly), and I take zero offense to any of it. Similarly, I get no 'high' off something that scores upvotes. I think HN does a pretty good job of helping this by not showing everyone's score, not notifying you someone replied to your post, not having reactions, etc.