Ask HN: How are you spending your karma points?

Everyone knows that karma is made to ensure that better, more insightful comments remain at the top of discussion pages. For some very understandable but unacceptable reasons, users have begun using karma to commend and acknowledge the comments which they find funny or interesting. This is all obvious.

When I joined HN, I I found a strong intellectual community, fully built and thriving, and I understood it was because all these users collectively bought in, agreeing with one another and PG that they are more interested in the thought provoking, debate rich forums of HN, than the attention starved, recognition contest that is other forum sites. The desire to be funny and social in such a community in understandable, but a poor reflection of character and consideration on the user's part. And when others use the system which is supposed to make the logical and insightful comments most readily available to commend one another for humor, it reflects poorly on the goals of the community. I implore every user, prominent and new alike, to remember one important fact whenever they use HN: Karma points are worthless to individuals, and priceless to the community.

There is no other way of defining the expectation for upvoting. You don't upvote for the user, you upvote for the community. When you know that the article or comment you read has intellectual value, you upvote so the community can collectively benefit from your positive evaluation of the page. So if unintelligent comments are helping bring in the karma points, use your unlimited supply well, because they're worthless. And everyone gets an unlimited supply to donate to the growth of the community, so please try not to squander them.

The simple question is, how are you spending your karma points?