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What does karma do on hn? What "extra" do you get with higher karma and at which levels?

dredmorbius 4y ago
Not much. dang explains most of the privileges / thresholds in various comments over the years: Karma > 30 enables flagging and vouching privileges on posts and comments. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14697607 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14697607> & <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24134548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24134548>. Karma > 500 enables downvotes on comments. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10224653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10224653> (Posts cannot be downvoted.) Sufficiently negative karma causes an account's comments to be autokilled. Threshold not specified. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16409493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16409493> (Profiles can also be banned specifically by moderators, e.g., <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35426426 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35426426>.) The 100 profiles with the highest karma are listed on the leaders page: <https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders>. Currently the 100th-ranked profile has 40,270 karma. There's no special privilege other than being listed, no member lounge or secret handshake. (You can figure out most of this by searching for dang's comments with appropriate keywords, e.g., "by:dang karma threshold", which turns up most of these. I'd also looked for "vouch", "downvote", and "flag" specifically. <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20karma%20threshold&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>)
- gus_massa 4y ago
  I agree. There is an unofficial list of undocumented features maintained by minimaxir https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
  - dredmorbius 4y ago
    That's a really good list, thanks! (I'm familiar with ... all or nearly all of it, but a one-stop-shop for HN features and behaviours is quite useful.) The points= parameter is quite useful, and one I'd either not known or forgotten. E.g., posts with >100 votes: <https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100 https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100>
- dang 4y ago
  After 250 you can also set your topcolor. https://web.archive.org/web/20080115223854/http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html?12jan08 https://web.archive.org/web/20080115223854/http://ycombinato...
  - dredmorbius 4y ago
    Or with no limit given a CSS manager / mangler :P Dred's HN CSS Madhackery: <https://pastebin.com/gLXiqKyd https://pastebin.com/gLXiqKyd> Dred's HN CSS Madhackery -- Dark Mode: <https://pastebin.com/6PF3dCXH https://pastebin.com/6PF3dCXH> Recent local tweak highlights mod comments as well: /* Highlight mod(s) */ .comhead .hnuser[href="user?id=dang"], .comhead a:link.hnuser[href="user?id=dang"] { color: #ff6600; color: #dd5500; } I'm aware that HN prefers to deprecate author over message. I disagree with that somewhat --- context, authority, identity, and reputation matter. Note that HN does distinguish new ("green") profiles. The other HN superpower, available to anyone with an email account regardless of karma, is to email the mods. That's how I started interacting with dang, and still do generally a few times per week/month, mostly for mundane stuff (titles, link disambiguation), occasionally to vouch killed stories, or to point out spammish or hostile behaviour (rarely on the last, flags really do most of the work here).

Not much. dang explains most of the privileges / thresholds in various comments over the years: Karma > 30 enables flagging and vouching privileges on posts and comments. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14697607 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14697607> & <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24134548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24134548>. Karma > 500 enables downvotes on comments. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10224653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10224653> (Posts cannot be downvoted.) Sufficiently negative karma causes an account's comments to be autokilled. Threshold not specified. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16409493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16409493> (Profiles can also be banned specifically by moderators, e.g., <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35426426 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35426426>.) The 100 profiles with the highest karma are listed on the leaders page: <https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders>. Currently the 100th-ranked profile has 40,270 karma. There's no special privilege other than being listed, no member lounge or secret handshake. (You can figure out most of this by searching for dang's comments with appropriate keywords, e.g., "by:dang karma threshold", which turns up most of these. I'd also looked for "vouch", "downvote", and "flag" specifically. <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20karma%20threshold&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>)

gus_massa 4y ago
I agree. There is an unofficial list of undocumented features maintained by minimaxir https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  That's a really good list, thanks! (I'm familiar with ... all or nearly all of it, but a one-stop-shop for HN features and behaviours is quite useful.) The points= parameter is quite useful, and one I'd either not known or forgotten. E.g., posts with >100 votes: <https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100 https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100>
dang 4y ago
After 250 you can also set your topcolor. https://web.archive.org/web/20080115223854/http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html?12jan08 https://web.archive.org/web/20080115223854/http://ycombinato...
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  Or with no limit given a CSS manager / mangler :P Dred's HN CSS Madhackery: <https://pastebin.com/gLXiqKyd https://pastebin.com/gLXiqKyd> Dred's HN CSS Madhackery -- Dark Mode: <https://pastebin.com/6PF3dCXH https://pastebin.com/6PF3dCXH> Recent local tweak highlights mod comments as well: /* Highlight mod(s) */ .comhead .hnuser[href="user?id=dang"], .comhead a:link.hnuser[href="user?id=dang"] { color: #ff6600; color: #dd5500; } I'm aware that HN prefers to deprecate author over message. I disagree with that somewhat --- context, authority, identity, and reputation matter. Note that HN does distinguish new ("green") profiles. The other HN superpower, available to anyone with an email account regardless of karma, is to email the mods. That's how I started interacting with dang, and still do generally a few times per week/month, mostly for mundane stuff (titles, link disambiguation), occasionally to vouch killed stories, or to point out spammish or hostile behaviour (rarely on the last, flags really do most of the work here).