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> Are people farming karma to later sell the accounts to shill products? Yes. Any self-respecting bot shiller knows their accounts need to look as genuine as
by Festro 2y ago
> Are people farming karma to later sell the accounts to shill products?
Yes.
Any self-respecting bot shiller knows their accounts need to look as genuine as possible. Broad subreddit use and commenting, harmless comments. Then whammy with the sponsored post when the time is right.
The more harmless the better. The more comment karma the better.
It's not Reddit pumping their numbers. They don't need to and after Elon's MAU crusade prior to buying Twitter they likely wouldn't want that kind of scrutiny when it comes to selling up.
I think Reddit will reinforce their user sign up pipeline in the short term to cut down on the bots. They'll have more data on it and I doubt any of it is good for them. They want real humans with cash to be posting popular comments, not bots.
- joegibbs 2y agoThe interesting thing is that looking through the history I’ve never noticed any of them actually shill a product yet - maybe they’re the bots that upvote the shill posts, or maybe it’s just that they’re so cheap you can run 100 of them for ages before you even think of putting them in use.
- cyanydeez 2y agoReddit, like twitter, realiz3 they benefit from the bots cresting engagement.
- ZunarJ5 2y agoI'm fairly certain my account is being AB tested for only visiting it on a web browser on Android, for how much a user will put up with before just leaving the site and not downloading the app lol.
- alemanek 2y agoUse old.reddit.com it is a lot cleaner
- markx2 2y ago> Are people farming karma to later sell the accounts to shill products? > Yes. I wonder who buys though. I had an account which was 9 years old, over well over 100k karma and I decided I would delete it. Before doing so and out of curiosity, I contacted a couple of accounts that said they bought accounts. I was offered $20 (twenty) dollars. No more. Deleted the account. If that is a representative amount then it's a lot of 'work' for no real gain.