Re:Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you s...
by Jun8 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:45AM
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Similar situation for me (8.7k), i.e. almost all my karma is from comments. I suspect people with high karma scores have a much higher submission to comment karma ratio.
I spend quite a bit of time here, on the order of 1-2 hours per day. Approximately 80% of that time is spent in reading comments, which is where the value of HN is really. In the ~15 years I’ve been here I’ve learned which comment threads is useful to join the conversation and which are flame wars to be avoided. When I comment I spend time to add links and additional information, if possible, to try to add value to the discussion.
AFAIK HN is the only board on the Internet that Ofer’s a truly amazing variety of submissions and thoughtful commentary in these, just in the last days we had entries ranging from quaternions to Montaigne.
My karma is exclusively from comments. There is no continuity, but I'd say I spent 15 minutes/day in average.
15 minutes per day spent in thoughtful and respectful (as possible :)) arguments, which is part of the HN culture, is some of the most productive time I ever spend.
I don't spend time reading articles in realtime - I store the most interesting from an RSS feed, and read them asynchronously; I don't consider this HN time.