Now learn that you're on HN, not HW.<p>;-)<p>Actually, learn to not be a slave to increasing your karma number. I know, you (and many of us) get a dopamine hit from watching it increase, but... you can make yourself a slave to your karma number. Maintain your freedom instead of succumbing to slavery. If you start feeling what I'm talking about, then maybe you need to walk away for a while.<p>... says the guy who teeters on the edge of being enslaved to that dopamine hit...
karma is just a meaningless number.<p>When I left Reddit I had something like 50,000 karma points. What did those 50,000 karma points give me? Nuttin, nothing, nada, zilch, zero!<p>You can chase the numbers if you want. It's not much different from collecting pretty sea-shells on the beach.
Badges. A simple dot. Log scale. Is there a reason not to?<p>ETA: Guess there must be. No, please don’t explain or discuss. A puzzle for the “noob”. Thank you!