Ask HN: What's going on with my karma?

3 pointsboyanpro9y ago4 comments

For years my karma was -1. I posted some comments and now it is -6. An on these comments I got -2 points and I don't know why. They were normal comments. Can anybody explain this? Thanks!

4 comments

sharemywin9y ago

I checked your comments out. I think people are down voting your comments. I occasionally say stuff that gets down voted but I have lots of up voted comments to. It's alright to have an opinion but more people need to agree with you than not. ;)

But if you want to get upvoted you need pretty useful comments with advice. and links don't hurt either. you can check out my comments by clicking on my username and get a feel for things the community found useful. I hope this didn't come off condescending. I struggled with it for a while.

Others may have better advice on finding good stories/news that get 100s of karma.

boyanproOP9y ago

Thank you very much for your reply! It is very informative and useful. Somewhere in back of my head I presumed all of this. But I didn't know that comments can be also down-voted. Anyways thank you for all of these details!

_m8fo9y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

brudgers9y ago

It's probably better to ask the moderators using the |contact| link at the bottom of the page.

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