But I get downmodded no matter what. It seems like there's a conspiracy to make sure I never get above mid-50s. Heck, I think if I add all the 30-to-50 variances I'd be up to at least 500 by now. Okay. Fine. Um, "Me too. I agree. What that guy said reminds me of an article by Paul Graham ... BTW, I was using all these cool new startup apps, then I found out they were all started by this incubator, Y Combinator, which just happened to be run by the guy who wrote most of my favorite articles on the whole wide internet, Paul Graham. Did I mention I can't wait for someone to do a mashup of Xobni and RescueTime and Reddit? Also, a random thought occurred to me: without Viaweb, Yahoo would probably never have gotten off the ground. Also, last, I would upmod everybody if only I could, especially pg and rms. Have I mentioned how clean, fresh and well-thought out the design of Hacker News is? If only all forums were this elegant. There! Can I please have a few extra points now? My dream is to someday break the magical (for me) "60 barrier". I've heard tales. I believe it's possible, somehow, someway. I love all you guys, even the band of down-modding ninjas tracking my every move. May you all have many buyout offers from Google and Microsoft, but enough customers to be able to turn them down and go on to bigger, better things.
Obviously karma is very important to you, I gave you as many points as I could.
Just say what you want and don't worry about the karma. You've got something of a stream of consciousness style going on; your posts are longer than most here. My advice is to try and make your posts more concise. If they were shorter, people would be more likely to take the time to reply rather than just downmod you.
Now watch this get downmodded.