I flagged your post because ‘karma whoring’ [0] (aka attention whoring) is one of the roots of evil on all social media. If you read the HN guidelines [1] (whic

I flagged your post because ‘karma whoring’ [0] (aka attention whoring) is one of the roots of evil on all social media. If you read the HN guidelines [1] (which cover both submissions and comments), most of the positive qualities HN is trying to preserve/maximise are ones that karma-whoring subverts, and the negative qualities the guidelines are trying to minimise are those that karma-whoring amplifies. Please consider what you’re asking for and why. [0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Karma%20Whoring https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Karma%20Whor... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html