Capstone 2: Organic Karma Growth to 1000+
Goal: Reach 1,000+ organic karma, weighted toward community karma in your anchor subreddits, purely through genuine contribution, against Single Grain's documented benchmark of 3-6 months to "Experienced" tier (2,000+) and 12-18 months to "Power" tier (10,000+).
Prerequisite stages: 01-stage1-foundations.md; runs on top of Capstone 1's live account.
Weekly milestones (12-week arc): Week 1 baseline snapshot and routine; Week 4 checkpoint (~250 karma); Week 8 checkpoint (~600 karma); Week 12 checkpoint (1,000+ karma, or an honest gap analysis if short).
Deliverables: a weekly karma-snapshot chart for the full 12 weeks; a write-up of your top 10 highest-karma contributions and why each one worked.
| Criterion | Points |
|---|---|
| Karma velocity vs. the 250/600/1,000 checkpoint schedule | 30 |
| Subreddit diversity (not farmed from one community) | 15 |
| Quality-over-quantity (no low-effort farming patterns) | 20 |
| Weekly documentation completeness | 15 |
| Ethics (no vote manipulation, no karma-farming subs, no purchased karma) | 20 |
| Total | 100 |
Claude workflows: a weekly Claude-run post-mortem prompt that ingests your karma log and top comments, identifying which content patterns (helpful-answer, story, data-point) are actually earning karma so you can do more of what works.
Tools: Claude Project, spreadsheet dashboard, Reddit profile history.