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I tried to do something similar but couldn't get karma very quick (using a paraphrasing API on other people's comments and submitting news from RSS feeds). I t

by _fn2y 5y ago

I tried to do something similar but couldn't get karma very quick (using a paraphrasing API on other people's comments and submitting news from RSS feeds). I think I had a chicken and egg problem with karma because most subreddits require a minimum amount to post. I ran it for about two weeks before I lost interest. None of my accounts were limited in any way and I was just using publicly available Hola proxies. It seems that very little scrutiny is applied to the reddit mobile API. No captcha is required for registration (unlike the website) and no email is required. Here are some samples: https://www.reddit.com/user/SereneKingdom36 https://www.reddit.com/user/SereneKingdom36 https://www.reddit.com/user/EnviousEditor41 https://www.reddit.com/user/EnviousEditor41 https://www.reddit.com/user/active_manufacturer6 https://www.reddit.com/user/active_manufacturer6 https://www.reddit.com/user/RemarkableCracker71 https://www.reddit.com/user/RemarkableCracker71 If anyone at reddit is reading this, it'd probably be pretty trivial to identify the 50 other accounts I made like this :)

TheFreim 5y ago
> I tried to do something similar but couldn't get karma very quick. I think I had a chicken and egg problem with karma because most subreddits require a minimum amount to post. Doing this on an account that you personally use is probably the easiest way, but that doesn't scale well for obvious reasons. Getting past time gates (must wait a month or more to post in certain areas) and karma gates takes time. This kind of makes me want to go back and try this again but there are moral/ethical issues that give me pause.
- from 5y ago
  Yeah I think I would have been more successful had I just bought some aged accounts with 50-100 karma. If you're "morally flexible" and willing to work with some unsavory types there's probably a lot of money to be made but that's not really for me either lol.
Lascaille 5y ago
>chicken and egg problem with karma because most subreddits require a minimum amount to post. Create your own subreddit and seed it with content directly copied from other subreddits then have your bots all upvote each other.
- _fn2y 5y ago
  That is creative :) Although I imagine when you have an upvoting ring you want to avoid the participants being linked together as much as you can
  - Lascaille 5y ago
    Just use VPNs and alternate the endpoints. This is all theoretical, of course. I've had a think about running a botnet on reddit for a while because I detest what the place has become. I can literally see the obvious botting that takes place across the entire frontpage and it annoys the hell out of me. It's mass social engineering. Time and time again I see people on reddit really intensely screaming 'go no contact with your parents, abandon your family for the slightest difference of opinion' and such a toxic viewpoint is not only heavily upvoted but applauded by others that jump in with 'I did the same, it's totally normal, everyone goes no contact with their parents these days...' I really think the place is being weaponised to disrupt society in a fundamental way. I mean, genuinely trying to break down the bonds of society and turn people against each other by creating this alternate reality. You go outside and talk to the average person at work or in a bar about opinions that, from reddit, you'd suspect are mainstream and they look at you like you have two heads. It's so artificial. I just pray that too many people don't fall too deeply into the trap.
    - _fn2y 5y ago
      I use reddit spordically - [this](https://www.reddit.com/user/FirstToday1/ https://www.reddit.com/user/FirstToday1/) is my account. I got my job from something I posted on reddit so I still feel a little indebted to the site. Reading the default subreddits will probably cost you about 3-5 IQ points p.a. I don't know where the family hatred comes from either. It's really common on the advice subreddits. Reddit has always had the punk/atheist type stuff but now that more ordinary people use Reddit what they say can have an actual effect on society now. The increasing popularity of memes and videos over text probably isn't helping the site either. Such a shame.
      - 5y ago

by _fn2y 5y ago

TheFreim 5y ago

> I tried to do something similar but couldn't get karma very quick. I think I had a chicken and egg problem with karma because most subreddits require a minimum amount to post. Doing this on an account that you personally use is probably the easiest way, but that doesn't scale well for obvious reasons. Getting past time gates (must wait a month or more to post in certain areas) and karma gates takes time. This kind of makes me want to go back and try this again but there are moral/ethical issues that give me pause.

from 5y ago
Yeah I think I would have been more successful had I just bought some aged accounts with 50-100 karma. If you're "morally flexible" and willing to work with some unsavory types there's probably a lot of money to be made but that's not really for me either lol.

Lascaille 5y ago

>chicken and egg problem with karma because most subreddits require a minimum amount to post. Create your own subreddit and seed it with content directly copied from other subreddits then have your bots all upvote each other.

_fn2y 5y ago
That is creative :) Although I imagine when you have an upvoting ring you want to avoid the participants being linked together as much as you can
- Lascaille 5y ago
  Just use VPNs and alternate the endpoints. This is all theoretical, of course. I've had a think about running a botnet on reddit for a while because I detest what the place has become. I can literally see the obvious botting that takes place across the entire frontpage and it annoys the hell out of me. It's mass social engineering. Time and time again I see people on reddit really intensely screaming 'go no contact with your parents, abandon your family for the slightest difference of opinion' and such a toxic viewpoint is not only heavily upvoted but applauded by others that jump in with 'I did the same, it's totally normal, everyone goes no contact with their parents these days...' I really think the place is being weaponised to disrupt society in a fundamental way. I mean, genuinely trying to break down the bonds of society and turn people against each other by creating this alternate reality. You go outside and talk to the average person at work or in a bar about opinions that, from reddit, you'd suspect are mainstream and they look at you like you have two heads. It's so artificial. I just pray that too many people don't fall too deeply into the trap.
  - _fn2y 5y ago
    I use reddit spordically - [this](https://www.reddit.com/user/FirstToday1/ https://www.reddit.com/user/FirstToday1/) is my account. I got my job from something I posted on reddit so I still feel a little indebted to the site. Reading the default subreddits will probably cost you about 3-5 IQ points p.a. I don't know where the family hatred comes from either. It's really common on the advice subreddits. Reddit has always had the punk/atheist type stuff but now that more ordinary people use Reddit what they say can have an actual effect on society now. The increasing popularity of memes and videos over text probably isn't helping the site either. Such a shame.
    - 5y ago