The HN karma paradox
nostrademons: I think it's more that long, detailed, well-supported points tend to get more karma than simple one-liners.  IIRC, PG posted once that there was a big correlation between comment length and score.I've noticed much less of a correlation between popularity and score than I would've expected - certainly much less than at Reddit, where you can write a detailed page-long comment that completely demolishes the parent's argument, and then have it sit at -1 because voters on Reddit reflexively downvote articles that don't fit their preconceptions.  Here, that same comment is often at +10 or more.