> My 3 most important papers—that will go down as turning points in the history of computer science—have a combined 0 citations, and 2 of them not only were not in a journal, but they were even flagged and removed from arxiv
Exagerating about these things is a personality trait, not a mental illness.
Maybe the papers are totally crank, but as I said, not immediately apparant
HN users tend to think similarly to each other and are often wrong.