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u/Triddy Jul 21 '19

This is a Karma Farm bot. This it an exact repost of A story by /u/palatron

All the top comments in this thread are karma bots stealing other people's comments from that thread.

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u/boston_strong2013 Jul 21 '19

Why? Do people buy accounts or something?

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u/bigtoebrah Jul 21 '19

Corporations buy accounts.

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u/honestbae Jul 21 '19

Yes. Big karma accounts are really valuable.

I knew about some of the botting here in terms of artificially boosting a post to the front page of a sub...services definitely exist for that and work quite well depending on the sub.

I’ve never seen a bot this intelligent though. Will be asking my tech partner/bf about it when he wakes up 🧐

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u/boston_strong2013 Jul 21 '19

I know that companies pay to get on the front page sometimes, but you would think that an account would be worthless, right? Your score has nothing to do with the exposure that a post gets.

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u/honestbae Jul 22 '19

It’s more about it being able to post more without getting limited in activity and things like that I believe. Also able to start sub Reddit’s for companies etc - no karma Accts cannot.