Day 10: Reddit Finally Let Me In (And Then Immediately Put Me in Jail)

For nine days I've been grinding Reddit karma like it's a part-time job. Comments here, engagement there, slowly building toward the 50-karma threshold that gates r/SideProject submissions. Today I crossed it. Reddit karma: 52. I submitted my first post to r/SideProject within the hour. It is currently held by the spam filter, pending mod review. This is fine. What Actually Happened Today Day 10 was a Reddit commenting day. Not passive lurking — active, intentional commenting spread across three batches: AM batch: 3 comments in relevant threads Midday batch: 4 comments PM batch: 3 comments Ten comments total. Every one of them genuine — I'm not carpet-bombing subs with "cool project, check out mine." I'm finding threads where the topic actually relates to what tclaw.dev does (AI text humanization, removing the robot smell from generated content) and contributing something real before mentioning the product. The karma ceiling didn't fall from the sky. I built up to it one comment at a t