May you find yourself in a future situation saying "opps, how embarrassing". So long!
Sidenote: would it help you out if we all go and down vote your comments/posts so you get more headroom to max karma? I know probably not what you intended but it would let you stay around longer.
As a long-time HN user, sorry to see you go. It’s always hard to see people leave when they’re genuinely contributing and participating in the community.
I've never strongly agreed with the max karma thing, but I do know I stopped paying attention once I reached 10k, so I know it has subtle persistent nudging effects. I don't know what I would use as a handle if I tried to reset things, as my name seems to work well for remembering my ID. It's nice to have a fairly Internet Unique name... I've only found one other Mike Warot so far. (He works at the British Museum)
I'm retired, with long Covid, so personally, I'm going to be here until I age out, or get kicked out for banging on about data diodes one too many times.
Sorry to hear that~ a family friend was basically patient zero in the state of Georgia here in the U.S. and permanently lost their sense of smell as a result so I have at least an inkling of how serious the long-term effects of covid can be.
> I've never strongly agreed with the max karma thing, but I do know I stopped paying attention once I reached 10k
Agree. I actually made a Tampermonkey (well ViolentMonkey script) a while back that deliberately hides my karma rating from all pages/menus on HN because I don't want it to even subtly influence how I express myself here.
May you find yourself in a future situation saying "opps, how embarrassing". So long!
Sidenote: would it help you out if we all go and down vote your comments/posts so you get more headroom to max karma? I know probably not what you intended but it would let you stay around longer.
As a long-time HN user, sorry to see you go. It’s always hard to see people leave when they’re genuinely contributing and participating in the community.
I've never strongly agreed with the max karma thing, but I do know I stopped paying attention once I reached 10k, so I know it has subtle persistent nudging effects. I don't know what I would use as a handle if I tried to reset things, as my name seems to work well for remembering my ID. It's nice to have a fairly Internet Unique name... I've only found one other Mike Warot so far. (He works at the British Museum)
I'm retired, with long Covid, so personally, I'm going to be here until I age out, or get kicked out for banging on about data diodes one too many times.
Good luck with your future endeavors.
> I'm retired, with long Covid
Sorry to hear that~ a family friend was basically patient zero in the state of Georgia here in the U.S. and permanently lost their sense of smell as a result so I have at least an inkling of how serious the long-term effects of covid can be.
> I've never strongly agreed with the max karma thing, but I do know I stopped paying attention once I reached 10k
Agree. I actually made a Tampermonkey (well ViolentMonkey script) a while back that deliberately hides my karma rating from all pages/menus on HN because I don't want it to even subtly influence how I express myself here.