How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma

Re:How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma by omnisci on Monday December 03, 2012 @10:46AM (#4865897)

So do you get an award for having high Karma?

I think people put too much weight on things like this. I've been on message boards for over 12 years. People know me because of my name and what I contribute, my karma (which we don't have) or likes or friends don't matter.

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Re:How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma by dsr_ on Monday December 03, 2012 @10:50AM (#4865912)

There are a couple of awards. One is the ability to downvote as well as upvote. That comes pretty early. The second is the ability to change the color of the stripe at the top of the page (for your own, logged-in views).

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Re:How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma by omnisci on Monday December 03, 2012 @11:29AM (#4866160)

Well, now that you put it like that, I'm going to collect karma (actually the downvote thing is helpful) like a mofo! :)

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