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@pollodiabolo - this user is a karma whore of epic proportions and they have made a shit load (10-15+) accounts on kbin that boost and upvote each other while sometimes mass downvoting others that have posts trending towards the top - all to farm karma.

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You will continue to see me calling out this person and their alts. This can't and won't become another Reddit and karma whoring folks need to be called out and discouraged.

The following accounts are all the same person and in the very unlikely event they are not, they are still collectively vote manipulating.

@pollodiabolo @journalism_died @ishitwhite @muftiboy @kilkennygriffin @jeremyfurzen @syscollapse @riseupagainstthem @ruse-of-metacarpi @johnson_waters @cazzodicristo @at-fieldu @the-big-lie @Schluchtschiss @fuckoffyoudumbcunt @extremelybullish @cringeminge4 @NoCunteryForOldMen @yesbabyyy @kneel_pleb

A few of these accounts have since cleared their boosting history but with some common sense it should be easy to verify.

If I get mass downvoted, be sure to see the age of the accounts as well as whether they are on this list to gauge their authenticity. I am pretty sure this won't reach many but I'll spam it enough times so it eventually will.

EDIT: This is not a comprehensive list and there are obviously more alts. These are beyond a reasonable doubt involved in mass self-upvoting.

EDIT2: Almost every downvote I have on this post are by accounts that were made after I posted this. They all belong to the same user that I have called out here. This is pathetic and should be proof enough that vote manipulation is something we need to deal with.

EDIT3: More accounts to add to the list: @puny_human @latvianbloke @pedanticc @SONOFNAT

EDIT4: And now they've started to remove their downvotes from new accounts and add them from the list. Bruh I don't even get it at this point. I'm just gonna go to bed that person's a headache to figure out honestly. Night y'all.

Name and shame karma farmers.

EDIT5: This is an excellent example, you might see some familiar names

Image in case they decide to retract their votes again

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[–] princessofcute@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's dumb is reputation doesn't even do anything on Kbin right now other than make you go "haha I have higher number than you" so reputation farming is a total waste of time. Personally I hope it stays that way as it will deter the farmers, I can see some of the benefits of the karma system in Reddit but it's just too prone to manipulation to be actually useful in any way.

[–] atocci@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It didn't do anything on reddit either as far as I'm aware, and yet people still went for it like they were trying to get the high score.

[–] princessofcute@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was sometimes used for posting, like you had to have a certain amount of karma to post in certain subs

[–] atocci@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a fair point, I forgot that was a thing that could be done. Was that useful? Do you think it's something that should be possible here in the future?

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

As someone who was mostly a lurker on Reddit, it was really annoying, actually. The rare times I wanted to comment on something, only to be hit with being told my karma was too low, so I couldn’t? It put me off those subreddits fast and ended up made me less likely to try to comment on things.

[–] ozen@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you could make a small amount of money for selling a reddit account with high karma...but that's the only thing I ever heard of it being useful for.

[–] phoenixes@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

It also grants a small amount of credibility of not being some random new account shill or whatever, but given how accounts can be sold, it doesn't really do that if you're paying any attention

[–] Ignacio@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The only thing it did on Reddit was to limit who could join a subreddit or who could post something in a subreddit.

[–] StopMassDownvotingYouIdiot@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"haha I have higher number than you"

This is exactly what some people are after. It lets them believe they are oh so better for having no life outside of the internet. And content quality on kbin suffers in the process.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Back in the Fark days, it was, "I have a lower number than you!" (an older account). People will always find something to latch onto.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"I have a lower number than you!"

Same with the old slashdot days.

( Years before the reddit huge of death there was getting slashdotted.)

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Fark called it "getting Farked".

[–] sotolf@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Back in the old forum days it was about having the biggest amount of posts :p

[–] minnieo@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It must stay that way. High rep shouldn't affect anything at all.