I'm below 500 (430) and couldn't care less about agreeing with people if what they are saying is not matched by what I consider the objective truth. What would

I'm below 500 (430) and couldn't care less about agreeing with people if what they are saying is not matched by what I consider the objective truth. What would be the value of karma gained that way? (I mean value for myself - is there any value in being a phony??) When (or if) I can downvote is not very interesting either - so far I get a lot of great content from HN - like valuable book recommendations. Karma won't make it any better. What I'd like is HN to remain a good source of information for as long as possible, since I am still finding lot of great info. Karma could help that, but would require an activate participation on my behalf (like clicking for downvoting - consider I rarely highvote, odds are it won't be very useful to me) Just yesterday I saw a post of mine get voted below - 4 for just questioning the interest of an approach - I first tried to explain how, in my sense, the proposed approach was wrong, gave an example, then basically gave up - not because of the karma but because there are better things to do with one's time. Everytime there is a score, we humans want to try and max it out. It's a natural tendency, but not always for the better- sometimes thinking whether it might be worth it helps :-) Karma on HN seems especially worthless. You quickly see who's posting sense and who's not - for ex I didn't need to see the user actual score to consider yummyfajitas posts very interesting and worth spending time to read