- Be a good, early commenter on a good story. (A bad early comment might get you a ton of downvotes, and a mediocre early comment is likely to be ignored as better comments overtake it.)
- Submit good articles
- Consistently say insightful things. Even if you're not the first to comment, if what you say is really helpful, it'll rocket to the top.
Seriously, you submitted your own inflammatory tweet about karma to HN?
Jacques would have actually measured this. It's not hard; the top karma scores and their relative posting time are right there at the top of the comment.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 40.8 ms ] threadEDIT: Irony is so lost on most HN'ers. Ho-hum. Go ahead and downvote away...
The really successful VCs are all retired or retiring -- or at the very least, don't blog. :-)
- Be a good, early commenter on a good story. (A bad early comment might get you a ton of downvotes, and a mediocre early comment is likely to be ignored as better comments overtake it.)
- Submit good articles
- Consistently say insightful things. Even if you're not the first to comment, if what you say is really helpful, it'll rocket to the top.
Not that karma gets you much of anything. I wish I could trade this stuff in, like tickets at the arcade.
http://imgur.com/K9F3a.jpg
Jacques would have actually measured this. It's not hard; the top karma scores and their relative posting time are right there at the top of the comment.
Being an early commenter certainly helps, but it's not essential. HN moves a lot slower than reddit and has a lot less comments.