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Advanced karma farming maybe. It's with in the realm of possibilities today with a much lower bar. Heck, it's possible your not even speaking to anyone at all

• MichaelZuo 4mo ago
  I hadn’t thought advanced karma farming was possible… since those would be significant enough to attract moderator attention. The simple karma farming I can understand since there are too many attempts. So they just let automated filters deal with it and a few might slip through. Edit: Unless the mods dont bother removing all the falsely accumulated karma after catching the advanced farming rings. Then I could see that being constantly done.
  • filup 4mo ago
    The karma street credit system was not designed with LLM's in mind. It's going to be harder and harder to determine the legitimacy of a post or reply. There will be no good way to determine if your speaking to a human because it will become completly indistinguishable. The good news for HN is it's slightly easier to navigate and use judgement with post history. What can you do with a lot of high karma accounts? Alot. Planting seeds in this community can go a very long way.
    • MichaelZuo 4mo ago
      This might actually be less scary… than the prospect of genuinely mentally deranged people going around HN with 10,000+ karma accounts and messing with decent people. Which would be profoundly disturbing…