I am just getting back into serious writing (I had to put it on hold for unfortunate life events) and thought the best thing to do would be to read posts by others and comment if I had something I thought useful to add. However, while I have made several posts over the past few days my count hasn't changed. Are the counts updated periodically or real-time? My apologies for asking this question twice - - earlier today I submitted via the "contact us" button at the bottom then thought perhaps I should have posted the question here. Thank you for providing such a wonderful site!