Speaking of karma, is there some sort of karma FAQ lying about that I've not seen yet? I mostly grok the system, I think, but I had one comment get viciously hammered. I thought the comment was fairly innocuous, but perhaps I transgressed some News.YC rule, policy, or etc. that I wasn't aware of?
I'd like to play by the rules, I'm just wondering if there's some sore of newb intro that maybe I missed when I signed up?
If it's this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=120991 then the reason is not the comment so much as being in the wrong place at the wrong time. HN members are trying very hard to avoid becoming the next reddit... we want to keep the signal/noise ratio high. Since you were posting in (and thereby validating) a topic that many viewed as fluff, you sort of got crucified. That said, I didn't vote your comment down.
Then again, I could be overanalyzing the entire situation, and it could just be that a lot of this community prefers sex alone ;).
Okay, that makes sense. There is a LOT of noise on some of those news/link aggragator sites and I can definitely appreciate the urge to try and keep News.YC on a higher level.
I upmodded a couple of comments of yours because of a comment you made on the programming reddit. I think you would know which comment :) Consider it a positive karma bomb.
