Ask HN: How can I disable/lock my personal karma?

Posted by X4 on Saturday August 10, 2013 @10:12PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'd like to never go over 1337, hehe. It distracts me otherwise, seeing it going up/down is not really useful to me. I would rather like to know, if a link was useful or not for other people, without getting up-voted just for posting the link. Kind of an impact ratio not tied to my account.

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Re:Ask HN: How can I disable/lock my personal karma? by tehwebguy on Saturday August 10, 2013 @10:35PM (#6193593)

Why not write a user style or script to hide it from yourself?

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Re:Ask HN: How can I disable/lock my personal karma? by X4 on Sunday August 11, 2013 @05:05AM (#6194411)

I think I'll do that, because the karma on the top right is like looking into your pocket every time you donate.

There are so many HN extensions, tools, apps and scripts, somebody should compile a list of them.

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Re:Ask HN: How can I disable/lock my personal karma? by david_shaw on Saturday August 10, 2013 @10:26PM (#6193563)

Well, I can't tell if you saw this coming, but posting on HN is probably not a great way to "lock" your karma.

As of my reply, it's at 1339. Sorry, buddy.

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Re:Ask HN: How can I disable/lock my personal karma? by vinceguidry on Monday August 12, 2013 @10:01PM (#6203580)

Get another account, post until you hit the downvote threshold, and downvote your comments on this account to keep you where you want. Try not to post anything too insightful, you wouldn't want to run out of past posts to downvote.

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Re:Ask HN: How can I disable/lock my personal karma? by benologist on Saturday August 10, 2013 @10:33PM (#6193587)

You need to get hellbanned on exactly 1337 which is going to be very difficult, but good luck!

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Re:Ask HN: How can I disable/lock my personal karma? by ohWhatever on Saturday August 10, 2013 @10:45PM (#6193626)

Well, now you'll just have to shoot for over 9000...

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Re:Ask HN: How can I disable/lock my personal karma? by X4 on Sunday August 11, 2013 @05:09AM (#6194420)

hahahha yeah that movie was really nice! But I'd prefer 1618 first ;)

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Re:Ask HN: How can I disable/lock my personal karma? by speedyapoc on Saturday August 10, 2013 @10:27PM (#6193566)

You can't.

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