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Re:How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma by Timothee on Monday December 03, 2012 @09:46AM (#4865568)
As others have said, I don't believe your existing karma influences the weight of your new comments.

However, I would think that patio11's, edw519's and others' reputation attract karma more easily than the "regular" commenters. I mean that people are more easily convinced by whatever they say because they trust their reputation.

Re:How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma by jiggy2011 on Monday December 03, 2012 @10:26AM (#4865768)
Whenever I see patio11 posting on any submission he is always the top rated comment, often when his comment (nice though it is) is fairly offtopic.