At the same time, it's useful for the site as a whole if people who submit inter...

sukilot · on March 27, 2015

Karma isn't a reward.

nickysielicki · on March 27, 2015

Totally agree.

I see no reason why there needs to be a count of how much karma one has collected. I like being able to see upvote and downvote counts for individual comments and posts, but I need not know how much I've accumulated, and I'll say that I think it's detrimental to any given online community.

UweSchmidt · on March 27, 2015

For some reason there is a leaderboard though :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

hamburglar · on March 27, 2015

On the upside, since this isn't a competition, I'm not losing!