Level of spam / sock puppet activity?
rbanffy: I think one good reason is that HN is ugly: it scares away the people I would want scared away if I were HN. It's also not very user friendly - a couple very clever friends of mine find the UI somewhat confusing. They see bug, I see feature.But I must confess a tiny little bit of shady conduct: I tried to engineer my karma to get exactly 1337 points (slowing down posts when getting close and, once it passed, trying to lower it through a variety of tactics, from light trolling to plainly asking to be downvoted - without much success, I must add). I couldn't get a screenshot at the right moment and the best I have is a 1338.Right now, I have 1402, which was a nice card reader made my IBM to accompany its much more interesting 1401 computer. I have a screenshot to prove.I will try again on 3278 (the first mainframe terminal I used), 4341 (the mainframe it was attached to) and 6502 (my most beloved micro-processor). Prime palindromes may also interest me, as scaled/rounded physical or math constants. sqrt(2) * 1000 is very close. 2718, 3142... What's the first prime number after 1402?I will consider other "karma sightseeing" ideas, so, if anyone wants to suggest some, please, feel free.From time to time I also post my own blog entries here, as the crowd HN attracts a tad more interesting than my regular "oops-wrong-page-get-me-outa-here" readers, and so are the discussions. I will probably touch up one tomorrow and post it here. Maybe a second one (about my karma engineering experiences), if I get to write it. I gather they tend to be of high quality too like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726922, that generated some interesting discussion.Other submissions, like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=743423 end up forgotten. And that one is even unfair, because David Alan Grier's podcast is most outstanding.