[deleted]
Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
31–40 of 73 posts
Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#32waay too much time. most of my comments do not garner much karma and that's okay, even then sticking around for 14(!) years has accumulated points. I guess I leave few comments every day, although there can be occasional long gaps too.
Few numbers based on search/profile: 5641 comments => 1.1 comments per day avg, 2.75 points per day, 2.5 points per comment. Looking at past year there were 670 comments, so yeah, I suppose I have become more active in the past years compared to the early days.
I don't really do submissions for some reason.
Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#336.6K. Under qualified.
All my glory from stupid jokes, never contributed anything of value here.
Read 5min/day and excluding this rarity don’t comment anymore.
Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#34Too much time some days. I don’t comment all that often though, I’ve just been here a long time.
Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#3585537 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. eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36067490
I'm right next to you on the leaderboard: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
.. but from the opposite scoring. I rarely submit anything, I'm just a poster in the comments section. One of these days I'm going to scrape out all my comments so I can rank them by score, maybe recycle them into Content.
Couple of key tips:
- if you're going to post an interesting link in the comments, take a moment to post it to /new first
- activity is highest at the top of threads, so piggyback off that
- if you're going to post jokes, make sure you post the explanation as well in the same comment
I have "noprocrast" set to 20 minutes on / two hours off, usually. So usually one or two 20 minute sessions per day.
Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#36I have nearly 25k karma. I also have ADHD, these are somewhat related.
Most of my Karma comes from really random comments that I assume people will not like to hear. The overwhelming majority of my comments will never get more than one upvote (if it even gets that).
The comments that earn karma are really 50/50 between if I get flagged or suddenly get 50 upvotes.
Regardless, you shouldn't ever expect to get any upvotes, karma doesn't matter except to add some amount of merit that someone is not a troll. Outside of that it's quite useless.
Answering the question, it ranges from 15 minutes to 4hours a day.
Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#3785537 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. eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36067490
I'm right next to you on the leaderboard: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders .. but from the opposite scoring. I rarely submit anything, I'm just a poster in the comments section. One of these days I'm going to scrape out all my comments so I can rank them by score, maybe recycle them into Content. Couple of key tips: - if you're going to post an interesting link in the comments, take a moment to post it to /new fi…
It's hilarious to me that I only recognize 3-5 of the top ten posters, because I almost never pay attention to who submitted a story.
Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#38Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#398.9k since 2017, so getting there. All except a few hundred tops from comments.
I spend on average an hour so per day, reading the comments and sometimes commenting.
On interesting topics I can spend more, reading the article and comments which may lead to searches and such. And often it can take a while to write a comment or reply, especially if I need to do some research, like if it's some programming language I haven't used before or similar.
Re: Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN?
#40I have nearly 25k karma. I also have ADHD, these are somewhat related. Most of my Karma comes from really random comments that I assume people will not like to hear. The overwhelming majority of my comments will never get more than one upvote (if it even gets that). The comments that earn karma are really 50/50 between if I get flagged or suddenly get 50 upvotes. Regardless, you shouldn't ever expect to get any upvot…
I have over 9000! (in Vegeta voice)
Same goes for me. I'm suspecting some form of ADD (but I'm highly functional, so no need for diagnosis, it does runs in the family, other family members are less lucky.)
I can spend a large part of my day here running/hiding from the ultra boring parts of my work.
I imagine my karma comes both from submissions and comments. Some submissions have 100+ karma, some comments can go to ~40 karma. Most are 1-2 karma, some 5-15 (take this with pinch of salt, I didn't really analyze it, it's a guess).