The "karma" value seems to climb with number of comments, only it's calculated with a lag. I think that's why your "immediately after" check showed no change. N

The "karma" value seems to climb with number of comments, only it's calculated with a lag. I think that's why your "immediately after" check showed no change. Now that it's been a couple weeks, can you recall if you hit 8701 in the half-a-day or so after posting the above?