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#33 here. I have written .. a lot of words. I don't know whether they're correctly excluding ">" quoted words though.

A quirky feature of HN is that you can only see detailed karma counts for your own posts. One of these days I plan to scrape all of mine so I can sort by karma and do some meta-commentary.

>>pjc50+(OP)
> One of these days I plan to scrape all of mine so I can sort by karma and do some meta-commentary

Seems simple enough, while searching I came across this snippet you can paste in the console, and gives you a sorted list of most upvoted/downvoted comments: >>36107028

Sadly requires hitting news.ycombinator.com rather than the API, but only way to get the actual points as you mention.

>>pjc50+(OP)
Karma depends entirely on when you comment: My most upvoted comments are the early ones. I check HN perhaps once a day, so my comments don't always get a lot of visibility. Perhaps it's better that way.

>>tasuki+wg
I mean, no, karma depends entirely on the contents of your comment :P I've have comments go from 0 to -4 to 50 to 10 over the course of one day, probably I'd say the flunctionations depends more on how controversial ("hot take") your comment is, but if it's generally good, it tends to be upvoted while more emotional/nonsense appeals tend to be downvoted. Pretty much as expected :)

>>embedd+Oi
Being late to a post though does you no favors. People have moved on. So it's both.

Hot takes? Aside: an example of a "third rail" post (where I seem to get the most downvotes) appears to be when I disparage UBI. I used to get hated for disparaging self-driving cars too but people beat me up less about that these days.

>>pjc50+(OP)
I tried to do exactly this, but you need to hit the actual HTML news.ycombinator.com site, since karma is not visible through the API or in any of the public data dumps. And HN appears to have rather robust anti-scraping provisions. Even after trying a few different back-off strategies, my scraper was rate limited quickly, so I gave up.

>>embedd+Oi
Your comment is never going to get 75 votes on it if it only gets in front of 25 eyes, regardless of how good, bad, offensive, or insightful it is.

Especially on political threads you'll see the most milquetoast takes imaginable basically locked at the top of the page because they were commented 2 minutes after the post was made, and all the fighting happens underneath.

>>ryandr+4Y
What about having a browser and having a tampermonkey script which can do that? I have found that works really great. Ooh this is giving me some ideas.

A lot of people have given me some really great ideas. Commenting to have them in backlog whenever I get bored and think to add addition. I would just be interested in having a dump/export of my comments personally as well (someone else wanted to/analyze all of their comments and have them in a floppy disk, maybe this can help their idea too!)

>>Imusta+wq1
It would be better if HN simply made karma scores available through the API. Such a strange omission--they obviously have the data.