> Sometimes you'll make a controversial comment and you'll notice the score on every recent comment you made go down by one. Sure, but that's a different pheno

> Sometimes you'll make a controversial comment and you'll notice the score on every recent comment you made go down by one. Sure, but that's a different phenomenon. If you make a comment that gets a lot of attention, sometimes people will go read a bunch of your other comments. I have also had the opposite of this happen, where I suddenly get upvotes on old comments.