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Quite the contrary... these people hacked information for some goal, which is EXACTLY the essence of HN.

Does +/- karma persist after a comment is deleted? It seems to be becoming common practice to delete comments that are downvoted.

The user who made that comment (and subsequently deleted it) was http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=anon1231213

As you can see, their karma is -2, but there are no comments on their profile. This would suggest that karma does persist after a comment is deleted.

...unless I'm missing something.

It persists, but by deleting the comment they can prevent more people from down-voting it.

This say something stupid, wait for the down-votes to begin, then delete it cowardice pisses me off, but I guess it's not something to get upset over.

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