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It does and it should make you happy a story you found interesting enough to submit is getting enough traction now for discussion.

• waterlesscloud 12y ago
  At the same time, it's useful for the site as a whole if people who submit interesting stories are rewarded with karma and not downvoted.
  • sukilot 12y ago
    Karma isn't a reward.
    • nickysielicki 12y ago
      Totally agree. I see no reason why there needs to be a count of how much karma one has collected. I like being able to see upvote and downvote counts for individual comments and posts, but I need not know how much I've accumulated, and I'll say that I think it's detrimental to any given online community.
      • UweSchmidt 12y ago
        For some reason there is a leaderboard though :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
        • hamburglar 12y ago
          On the upside, since this isn't a competition, I'm not losing!