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they're just doing it wrong. The way to maximize karma by donating is to make a top-level post talking about your donation, and encouraging others to donate. Comments are small potatoes karma wise
I don't think you're correct. Rare is the top-level post that beats 100 karma; I can do that with ten or so insightful comments that take much less time to compose.
100 upvotes for a top-level post is 1000 karma, not 100 — upvotes for top-level posts are worth ten times more karma than upvotes for discussion and comments. This makes posts disproportionate sources of karma, even given the greater effort involved in writing them.
Note that this is only true in the Main section, not the Discussion section.
Oh, is that so? I didn't know that... hunh. Interesting...
I wouldn't say that with the 'even given' part. It takes a lot of effort to make a good post!
but you can't make those 10 or so comments all about one thing. If you're specifically trying to gain karma from donation, a top level post is the way to go in my book.