C'mon. I want you to do it. C'mon hit me. Hit me. HIT ME!

I want to downvote you, but I don't have enough karma. Upvote my other comments and once I have enough karma, I promise to come and downvote yours.

I'm pretty sure HN keeps an eye out for upvote and downvote behaviour like that. We don't know for sure, of course, because moderation is a complete black box and I don't believe there is any surefire way to guarantee just what code is actually getting executed server side. And of course there are the design choices to consider, like

"only those with X karma get to downvote,"

and

"everyone with less than X karma gets their comments pended first,"

and

"anyone above the pending threshold that is too liberal with their approval of pending comments will have their approval privileges revoked,"

and

"only those with X karma get to flag,"

and

"anyone above the flagging threshold that uses the function 'incorrectly' will lose the privilege,"

etc etc ad nauseam.

And we think ourselves so superior to other internet cultures.

Still, enjoy the handful of upvotes you got from me :D And feel free to downvote my comments once you hit the threshold (last I checked, it was 500 karma). I'm actually curious to see how long it would take to fall back down to 0. Mentioning reddit is a good way to get downvotes (as you can see) especially if you highlight this community's insistence on just how much better it is than reddit. Using "low/no-content" comments is another good way. That's how we distinguish our memes from everyone else's: everyone else's "don't contribute to the discussion." As if our own memes were somehow high art and reddit's the lowest of brows.

Of course, my account is more than a year old. So, according to The Rules, it seems I can "submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit," but certainly cannot submit comments stating otherwise.

But do feel free to downvote this as well. I am, after all, "[baiting] other users by inviting them to downmod [me]" and "complaining about being downmodded."