[gnosis]

From the HN Guidelines:[1]

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

[1] - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[davidw]

I have enough of this silly "karma" junk that I don't mind taking the hit to transmit some "cultural norms" regarding site content. If no one does that, how will anyone know? Voting in and of itself is not enough... it'd be easy enough to organize a voting ring to start voting up any old thing. And way more people are interested in politics than are interested in esoteric things like Node vs Go vs Erlang.

[yareally]

> If no one does that, how will anyone know?

Common sense?