Oh wow, HN has a leader board. I didn't even know about this.

It used to be a main header link a couple of years ago but I think pg was trying to dissuade people from gaming it. I must admit I used to comment and post a lot more here when it was prominent but I'm a high score freak at the best of times :-)

Yeah, I'm glad I didn't know about it before. I'm competitive as well and I would probably go for the high score. It makes sense that pg took it down though.

See also: http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/overall

Then why did you make a new account?

Did you make your account for HN karma?

I would imagine most people did it to submit comments/links.

Are you pretending to not get the implication that it was a throwaway account just for that comment?

Maybe it's a way of self censoring, and not because of the fear of karma loss, as your comment might suggest.