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In some cases, it's probably to establish aged accounts that are more trusted by users and spam algorithms. There's a market for old Reddit accounts, for exampl
by ceejayoz 9mo ago
In some cases, it's probably to establish aged accounts that are more trusted by users and spam algorithms. There's a market for old Reddit accounts, for example.
- surgical_fire 9mo agoInteresting. Incidentally, how much do they pay for a HN account that is a few years old and accumulated a few thousand Internet points? Asking for a friend.
- sfjailbird 9mo agoThey are very valuable. Just a few of them can put a link on the HN front page. Upvote a certain viewpoint. Or bury any post they want gone.
- rcarmo 9mo agoYep. Like I said elsewhere on the thread, some of them already have enough karma to downvote.
- duxup 9mo agoYup, reddit is awash in established accounts that suddenly start spamming. Whole pools of them working to the same goal at times.
- jedberg 9mo agoI receive multiple offers a year to participate in spam rings with the 20 year old high-karma reddit account. I usually just ignore them or report them. I could be making so much money /s So far it hasn't happed here, but we'll see!