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by gumby 1873 days ago
I have almost 30K points and one of my most recent comments was -1'd. Take a look. It happens a surprising amount, and is IMHO rarely legit (per the HN "rules").

It is certainly legit if someone buries a sarcastic or trivial comment of mine (which happens, though I don't do it often), but I don't bother to delete them -- downvoting them does that effectively anyway.

I'm not sure if there's any actual value to karma and I don't really know how it's assigned and wouldn't really notice if it weren't on the top bar of the page. I haven't tried to do any experiments though.