I don't normally comment; my points come almost exclusively from posting articles.
And I only skim top comments, maybe for only 2~3 articles in a day.
So I don't have to spend much time on HN.
Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
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Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#12Stick around long enough, comment only on things you're knowledgeable about or have intelligent questions about, and the internet points just come up with the rations.
I basically visit whenever I'm bored or waiting for something, so maybe 20 mins in a day I guess?
Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#13I have 15k karma (!) and I guess I spend more than an hour a day reading stuff around here.
But I think the time doesn't matter at all, as a large part of the karma is just a few links that got popular. The rest is having frequented the site for a very, very long time :)
EDIT: and of course, I don't think internet points do much good, I would not object to hiding it completely.
Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#14Probably about 20 minutes a day. It’s part of my daily routine when I sit down at the computer to skim HN before I get going.
Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#15Depends on the week/day. Sometimes I don't have much going on so I'll spend a day bouncing around between HN/Youtube/outside world, some weeks I'm super busy and I have no time, some months I don't load HN. However, I'm not sure HN karma is primarily about the time investment. To me it's about only submitting things that are decent and only commenting when I have something valuable to say. I have two criteria: I'm an expert in the thing being discussed, or, I can spur conversation that is interesting to the community. A lot of my comments have 50+ upvotes, and I don't often get into negative votes because I try to add value + not to be an asshat. :D
Here are the HN leaders:
Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#1685537 karma in 16 years. It’s the years that made the difference.
Most of my karma is from submissions. I don’t get involved in discussions often.
Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#17the question should probably be where else they spend time to get news that they then post here. You don’t get a lot of karma with comments but with high quality original content or being early to post relevant links/news.
Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#18I’m curious what the distribution of karma is on HN, but I haven’t bothered to write a polite scraping method of reading through user’s profiles to grab counts that’s only a little more GET-y than just a human reading HN yet.
I’ve been curious about this for a long time though, already having pulled statistics like distributions of GitHub followers and stargazers.
Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#19I think HN likely has a better algorithm for this than Stack Overflow (where I answered about 4 simple HTML questions 12 years ago, logged out, stopped using the site and years later realised I had racked up thousands in karma), but even so longevity is still a huge factor. I'm sure some very active new users do rack up karma quickly, but for most just having an account here for a decent amount of time is what does most of it (and being reasonably active during that time).
I'm coming up on 10 years here... I've never been a big receiver of upvotes, it's just time.
Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#2011k. I visit a few times a day, for the last 12 years. I rarely comment or post, and ~10% of my karma is from one front page post, and likewise the rest of it is heavily skewed towards a few popular posts / comments.