Has the fear of losing your HN karma ever stopped you from expressing yourself? For the most part, no. For quite some time I've had the mindset "You can't buy

Has the fear of losing your HN karma ever stopped you from expressing yourself? For the most part, no. For quite some time I've had the mindset "You can't buy anything with this karma, and I have more than enough to spare". That said, it seems to be human nature that when you present somebody with a number that can be interpreted as a "score" that we get attached to trying to increase it. So I don't like when my "score" (karma) goes down, but I don't exactly lose sleep over it either. Also, like somebody else mentioned... I have a tendency to pay attention to it more near certain increments. Like if I was at 33974, I might start thinking "Hey, I need to get it to 34000 even" or whatever. Not a huge thing, but it does crap up now and then.