Yes. If you have actually learned something then your comments will reflect this and earn karma. You'll be into the positives before you know it.

OK. Got it.

If this is so, you have been doing it very badly.

I've already acknowledged that. But I've clearly been doing better with the "What I missed" explanation being +5 and this post only garnering -2 over two days as opposed to -6 in a few hours so I must have learned something.

I've also learned that we've reached the point where some people are tired enough of this thread that they will go through it karma down any comment by me and karma up any comment not agreeing with me. (I should go visit draq's posts and disagree with him ;-)