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I like to make new HN accounts every few months to avoid falling into this trap (i.e. feeling an obligation to sink more time into HN or reddit because I'm prou
by naillo 3y ago
I like to make new HN accounts every few months to avoid falling into this trap (i.e. feeling an obligation to sink more time into HN or reddit because I'm proud of the amount of points I have).
- raxxorraxor 3y agoI don't feel attached to that total score, but it is still gouge how good or badly received a response is and how much engagement it got. I dislike systems like GitHub where some people obviously just farm stars. Really complex problems and good code has 10-15 stars and very little engagement compared to some js helper function that cuts yours string in half.
- digitalsushi 3y agoI have had a single job interview where I needed to give my HN account status to proceed. I didn't, you know, do it, but it was asked
- Hitton 3y agoI have a userscript which among other things hides your score. I call this feature anti narcissism switch.
- Oneiros512 3y agoI've done this with reddit several times as well. It seems a positive thing to me to retain a level of detachment and not get too involved in building up the karma score or trying to build some kind of reputation. I've also taken to using the randomly generated usernames that it recommends rather than customizing them.