I use a feed reader to read HN so I see all content without regards to its ranking on site as well, basically I get it pretty much in a when post created timeline. I prefer it that way, I don’t need my interests curated by others. I find that there are too many interesting things to read that would get buried.
Look at all my karma on Hacker News!
Reminds me of the time when I was in the public library and an autistic kid walks in and asks the librarian straight up: I'm looking for books on hacking, do you have any? That astounded her for about 10 seconds before I astounded her further with my response to his question. I know what he's looking for, I'll help him. She never looked at me the same way again.
>this statement is wrong since you can not downvote with less than 500 karma
But almost all of the time a downvote is a valueless vote.
That is a transaction of and for value.
It doesn't matter what the X is you want or what the Y is you have to trade to get it.