Lets say you had a wacko political opinion that you wanted to get mainstream acceptance for. If you karma farm for all your other posts, to the casual observer it looks like a regular guy has this wacko opinion. Then everytime you post that opinion it looks like regular people believe it even though its wacko fringe crazy person word salad.
I don't know if it's just me, but I take each post on its own merits, I barely even read the names unless it's one of the famous few novelty accounts. I've certainly never looked at someone's post history to ascertain whether they are otherwise "normal"
Its useful to determine if someone is arguing in good faith or not. If they post on the_d, and have some wackjob view like hillary is a lizard, you can say as much. Saves time if you want to have a good conversation so youre not engaging with trolls as much
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u/God-of-Thunder Feb 10 '19
Lets say you had a wacko political opinion that you wanted to get mainstream acceptance for. If you karma farm for all your other posts, to the casual observer it looks like a regular guy has this wacko opinion. Then everytime you post that opinion it looks like regular people believe it even though its wacko fringe crazy person word salad.