Comment by elcritch
3 years ago
Yes! Looks like I'll only need to be on HN for another 21 years to become HN famous! ;)
Purusing these personel pages are fun. I also have an idle curiosity if these top accounts get karma mainly from comments or submits? As in are comments or stories are the driving portion of the HN karma system?
Most, but not all, people on the leaderboard are prolific commenters. I have heard (but cannot confirm personally :P) that posting a lot of interesting content can get you karma pretty quickly, but most of the people who do that seem to churn off the site eventually? I can only think of a handful of people who still do this regularly and don't comment.
I’m on there - at least for me the vast majority is from comments. The one time my blog hit #1 it was ironically submitted by somebody else.
It would also be interesting to read the all time most upvoted comments on HN -- without seeing the actual count of upvotes.
You probably know that you can get the first half of that at
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
(that is, you can see the most-upvoted comments, but you do see the count of upvotes)
Those are most upvoted comments before comment votes went hidden, not all time most upvoted comments.
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Can greasemonkey/clones suppress the display of upvotes?
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> get karma mainly from comments or submits
from my humble experience, both. Submits can get a lot more karma if you make it to the front page, but that's much harder than getting regular karma through regular comments.