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> To put it another way, everyone is one good submission or ten good comments away from the threshold the day they create an account. That's a bit too optimist

• brudgers 14y ago
  You're assuming my comments and submissions are good on an absolute scale. I'm not. A lot of well timed snark helped me get to 500. Back when comment scores were visible, a well considered snarky comment on a rising new submission would tend to collect upvotes, and I would seek them out. That's much harder to do these days because snark is much less popular and thus more frequently downvoted. My point wasn't that it is trivial, but rather that 200 points or 500 points or 1000 points is obtainable and that the better one's contributions are, the more easily realistic karma goals may be met. Three hundred points seemed like a lot at the time, for a short time, then it was just another number - and I've probably lost that many points via downvotes.