[swombat]

What's interesting to note here is that the points totals have been removed for the top 10. It used to show vast differences between the "leading pack" and the rest... of the order of 20k karma points or so!

I guess the rationale for this change is to stop the silly competition (if there was any) once at the top of the pack. I'm not sure there ever was such a competition, mind you. I was #7 once upon a time and it never affected my posting habits.

[lubos]

You can still click on individual usernames to see karma. tptacek has 193,243 and patio11 just crossed 100,000 a week ago.

[tptacek]

It's sort of helpful to be able to click a profile and see their karma, to get a sense of whether they're, I don't know, invested in the site? But it's not worth the creepiness.

[ck2]

archive.org has the points for January