How to get karma on News.YC(twitter.com)
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How to get karma on News.YC
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Write the comment everyone else was coming to write. They'll just upvote you instead.
Not that karma gets you much of anything. I wish I could trade this stuff in, like tickets at the arcade.
http://imgur.com/K9F3a.jpg
Not that karma gets you much of anything. I wish I could trade this stuff in, like tickets at the arcade.
http://imgur.com/K9F3a.jpg
There are a lot of ways to get karma:
- Be a good, early commenter on a good story. (A bad early comment might get you a ton of downvotes, and a mediocre early comment is likely to be ignored as better comments overtake it.)
- Submit good articles
- Consistently say insightful things. Even if you're not the first to comment, if what you say is really helpful, it'll rocket to the top.
- Be a good, early commenter on a good story. (A bad early comment might get you a ton of downvotes, and a mediocre early comment is likely to be ignored as better comments overtake it.)
- Submit good articles
- Consistently say insightful things. Even if you're not the first to comment, if what you say is really helpful, it'll rocket to the top.
Being an early commenter isn't enough. You also have to say something that someone else values. You won't get upvotes otherwise.
Actually, just make witty observations about HN, hacker culture, ...: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672032
Being an early commenter certainly helps, but it's not essential. HN moves a lot slower than reddit and has a lot less comments.
Being an early commenter certainly helps, but it's not essential. HN moves a lot slower than reddit and has a lot less comments.
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Running a successful VC firm or at least writing a blog about them seems to help too.
Most of the VCs who end up on here have yet to generate any really significant returns, some are even under-water.
The really successful VCs are all retired or retiring -- or at the very least, don't blog. :-)
The really successful VCs are all retired or retiring -- or at the very least, don't blog. :-)
I'm not going to upvote any of these comments just to prove the theory false!
First!
I just wanted to get in early to say I agree.
EDIT: Irony is so lost on most HN'ers. Ho-hum. Go ahead and downvote away...
EDIT: Irony is so lost on most HN'ers. Ho-hum. Go ahead and downvote away...
Jacques would have actually measured this. It's not hard; the top karma scores and their relative posting time are right there at the top of the comment.