If the difference between your karma and his concerns you, I suggest you not check the leader board.

That wasn't my implication. When I originally started with HN, I was telling myself I didn't want to join another community and all I wanted was aggregated links worth reading.

I am now 917 karma into said community. The wagon, I fell off it.

My bad. (Perhaps it implies I'm a "karma whore" that I jumped to the wrong conclusion?)

I hope you don't really regret the fall.