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A comment on Ask HN: Why new user on HN starts with karma=1?.

Re:Ask HN: Why new user on HN starts with karma=1? by mkal_tsr on Monday August 04, 2014 @03:41AM (#8130728)
Things that keep up the first world at night :-P

Maybe because everyone deserves a baseline non-zero level of respect by virtue of being a person?

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Re:Ask HN: Why new user on HN starts with karma=1? by refut on Monday August 04, 2014 @04:01AM (#8130761)
Agreed. But when i write code everyday, it become so common to use counting from zero than from 1.
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