• blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, I’ve seen that a bunch of times. Some subredits seem to be a particularly popular places to karma-farm to make convincing sock-puppet accounts to sell. Often someone in the thread points out that it is a bot repost - but the fake post and fake comments are easier to engage with compared to the accusation that someone is a karma-farming bot.

    (And of course, these bots-in-training will upvote each other’s comments and posts… so it always looks pretty popular.)