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The karma points you get on HN are worthless, which I think is a bonus. They don't buy you anything. On Reddit, for instance, many parts of the site are walled
by qingcharles 8mo ago
The karma points you get on HN are worthless, which I think is a bonus. They don't buy you anything. On Reddit, for instance, many parts of the site are walled off until you have "farmed" enough karma to participate.
- 0dayz 8mo agoNot exactly true. You get the right to down vote and if I promote my totally not a scam product on HN, people will check my user account and see: on wow over 9000 karma? Gotta be trust worthy, when in truth it's just been karma farming. HN does limit some of it, but it's not a panacea.
- himata4113 8mo agoI don't know, never found much value in karma. I recreate an account at least once a year for no particular reason and it roughly takes me a week to get enough karma to do what is important (flagging posts).
- wafflemaker 8mo agoMy account is literally 4 years old and I'm not even halfway there. How do you do it? And I'm trying to limit myself from saying unwanted things like criticizing ** or saying something nice about **. (Self censoring to avoid downvotes). Maybe I should be more active.
- himata4113 8mo agoI don't know. Just have something niche to share, be interesting. Don't be afraid of downvotes.