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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) by awb on Thursday February 17, 2022 @03:55PM (#30378530)
> I know how much karma you have, as much as you know how much karma any other person has, which is...you don't

FYI, clicking a username tells you have much karma someone else has.

For example, you have 4,258 karma: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stronglikedan

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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) by Shared404 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @11:29PM (#30382148)
I think the implication is that you don't know how many accounts into HN someone is.

For example, I could make a burner and appear to have 0 karma, but still have however much I've got on this account - much like sveno appears to have done.

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