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Karma whoring.

• mattbillenstein 14y ago
  Nailed it.
• stephengillie 14y ago
  I notice ralphchurch's name is green. That means recently registered, right?
  • jere 14y ago
    I believe so. And they have posted 5 stackoverflow questions in 11 days. IIRC, this is called Power Leveling.
    • speeder 14y ago
      the funny thing is I tried this YESTERDAY even this same post, I wonder how he managed to post a duplicate... and I did it to test if it would work, and it did not worked, and now it worked.. :/ now I guess that spamming SO does work after all.
  • pavanky 14y ago
    Thanks for asking the question. I noticed the color was different, but wasn't too sure which color it was because of my colorblindness..
• mistercow 14y ago
  Does anybody actually care about karma on HN? If so, why?
  • aaron695 14y ago
    Same reason as why we want money? We see it as a proxy for power. Why do people want power? Evolutionary reasons. Probably for men we see it as a way to reproduce a lot for women it's probably seen as a way to ensure their children are successful and reproduce. It gets a bit depressing if you think about it to much. Just enjoy life and accept things.
    • mistercow 14y ago
      But we don't just see money as a proxy for power. It is the closest proxy for power there is. HN karma, on the other hand, is barely a proxy for power at all.
  • DanBC 14y ago
    Posting SO questions is a double whammy because you level up HN karma and you snag some SO badges as well.