[croo]

Step out of your comfort zone.

Create a new account and make its goal to gather as much negative karma on HN as possible. This process may help you outgrow the fear and to grow as a person.

What's the worst that can happen? Your handle gets banned from the site? Nobody will miss a sleep over that.

[freehunter]

As someone who might be a consumer of content written by that negative karma farming account, please do not do this. One of the most annoying things on Internet forums is trolls intentionally seeking downvotes.

There have to be ways to boost your self esteem without pissing off the rest of the world.