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Re:65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and The... by epolanski on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @11:56AM (#46514858)
You can have millions of upvotes just with jokes.

I remember a guy that had millions just because on any reddit AMA asked "tits or ass?"

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Re:65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and The... by mjr00 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:01PM (#46515982)
The commentor was talking about HN karma, not reddit.

You're right about reddit karma though. One of the good things about HN is that throwaway joke posts like that are downvoted/flagged/otherwise discouraged. I can guess the top comment for any given Reddit comment section with like 90% accuracy just because it's going to be the most obvious joke possible based on the submission title, and Reddit users love upvoting those for some reason.

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Re:65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and The... by RiverCrochet on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:09PM (#46516105)
You can also have hundreds of thousands of downvotes if you work for EA and are completely tone deaf.

https://fandomwire.com/karma-slapped-ea-with-the-most-downvo... (there are probably better articles about it out there, I quit reddit a long time ago)

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