What do I get from earning karma?

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What is the point of karma? Do I gain anything from having more of it, like on stackexchange?

You can change your topbar color, mine is #000

That used to hide everything unless I'm forgetting, but now some of the text is a slightly off color https://imgur.com/a/cELQIVQ

Is there a place I can see all the possible privileges you can get?

Lots of unofficial (probably inaccurate) guides

[A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors](https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented)

Mainly two things, AFAICS:

1) "Prestige".

2) Perhaps some actual advantage in the form of your comments being taken more seriously by people here whom you want to take them seriously, if any.

(Idunno, maybe those are the same thing.)