"This user spends so much time on HN they can't possibly be productive in real life. You are getting the town drunk, not the star of the pub" I'm medically han

"This user spends so much time on HN they can't possibly be productive in real life. You are getting the town drunk, not the star of the pub" I'm medically handicapped and "have no life" which is why I spend so much time online. When I first joined HN (July 2009), I figured everyone on the leader board here was basically some loser with no life. Not a big slam because I figured they were fairly intelligent losers. But I did figure "You people are spending so much time here for the same reason I am: You desperately need to get a life. (Only you seem to have less excuse than I have for your failure to get a life.)" That proved to not be an accurate assessment of the situation. Your point is not irrelevant, but I will suggest that karma count on HN is not a good measure of anything at all other than time spent actively posting on HN -- which, in some cases, is cumulative over many years and in some cases it is not. Some people here certainly are "the town drunk." And some people with high karma are people who have been here a long time and contributed a lot of good stuff while setting their ego aside and so on.