I hope the same isn't done for HN. The difference between self-posts in Reddit and HN is that the Ask YC/HN/PGs here stimulate good discussion and suggestions, not only useful to the original poster but to the rest of the community as well.

Although "karma doesn't mean anything!" if you post a good Ask YC/HN/PG and it has some good discussion and stuff in it, you should be rewarded with some points, just like if you post a good article.

Too little, too late. This won't change Reddit. They might as well sell themselves to Digg and be done with it.

No doubt. I go reddit for the funny pictures section (it's my guilty time waster) but no more will I visit the other parts. And it's mostly b/c I hate the new interface moreso than other high-falutin' reasons. I have enough GreaseMonkey scripts installed to make the UX ok on the old reddit but this new interface is just too much for me.

The page seems deleted. Google's snippet tells me that it used to contain:

  Sorry, karma-whores. 
  Thursday, June 26, 2008. 
  We are no longer counting karma for self-posts. That is all. 
  posted by david [ketralnis]

1) what happens on the internet stays on the internet

2) maybe the strong language plus it's removal means it wasn't an official post?