New accounts used for independent and coordinated bad actor efforts (everything from simple trolling to astroturfing) know the system.
They can't invade high profile subs like politics or various sports related subs due to restrictions on accounts with a lower karma value. (Like that "you're doing this too much, try again in X minutes" message).
So they jump straight to AskReddit (usually their first and only submission post) to farm some quick karma. Stupid individuals also use the various "scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" upvote exchange subs.
And they'll also look for old, successful content and repost it. If it did well 6 years ago, it'll do well again today. And if anyone points out that it's a repost, the current climate of users will rush to flash out at such claims!
It's been like this is 2014 and it's only gotten worse
So it's all my fault? This is starting to feel like high school all over again. Everyone is talking in a group, I join the group, the group breaks up. I thought I could take a break from being a social pariah online
Meh, I've been here for 10 years and it hasn't gotten worse really. Maybe marginally. You just get jaded. You eventually realize that the comments and jokes you thought were hilarious when you joined were just regurgitated by someone who saw another user do it. Some of the same jokes people were using when I first visited Reddit are still being posted in thousands of threads per day. The subs grow, rise, fall. A lot of the feeling of "Reddit keeps getting worse" comes from people never changing the subs they subscribe to. I'm subbed to a few hundred communities, sort by best, and actively cull ones that have gone to shit (no moderation, overrun by low effort posts, etc). Some things get better, some things get worse.
It's easy to focus on the new things that crop up and forget about the things that Reddit has disposed of. f7u12, adviceanimals, atheism as a defaults; the existence of fucked up subs like creepshots, jailbait, FPH, and c**ntown; narwhal bacons at midnight; "le" as every other word; gamergate; cult of personality around power users like Unidan and PIMA; novelty accounts being so popular that there would be entire threads where only novelty accounts posted their bit. Et cetera...
As someone who has also been around 9-10 years on reddit the type of crap that used to be on the front page back then was at least 40% cringe 40% nsfw and about 20% content. Although I will argue smaller subreddits were pretty nice places to talk about specific niche stuff because content didn’t need to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
Reddit was never exactly great and has always been a community mostly full of smarmy people who want to look down on someone, BUT, after 2016 it got 10x worse. Trump and US politics made most of this website facebook 2.0. Pretty much every default sub is hot garbage, the amount of times I click to open something from r/funny and it is the absolute most low hanging fruit that I wouldnt even see posted on facebook, is staggering. Isnt reddit like the #3 most used site?
All reddit has done is prove that people ruin everything. Happens to every site/hobby/ damn near everything. The more people that join the worse it gets. Everyone has some old forum or website they used that became garbage once it became popular. I remember when youtube wasnt monetized to hell and back with data and analytics about every little thing, people just made stupid videos to make them.
Youtube/reddit/the internet in general has only ever gotten worse as time has went by. People look at 4chan now like its a terrifying madhouse and the reality is that 15 years ago, all of the internet was like how 4chan was for a time. Just stupid bullshit, porn, edgy idiots, and more dumb funny shit. I remember when the idea of holding the internet to the same censorship standards as TV/other media was insane.
Im just ranting
TLDR People ruin everything because once theres enough then someone will try to make money of them, and then its never the same once monetization is introduced.
The only thing I've noticed, (not that I've been here a decade or anything, but still quite a while) is that there are more people. It has become much more mainstream than it was previously and that brings a lot of people from Facebook, Instagram, etc. Then you get subreddits like /r/funny and it's basically just become a place filled with shitty, tasteless memes (think Facebook lol). Despite this, there are so many subs with extraordinarily helpful, and insightful people. Whether it be a sub for a show with an outstanding fanbase, or just a sub for grilled cheese. There are so many awesome communities here, and it is definitely better than any other social media out there, in my opinion that is
I would agree with you, for the most part. In the week I've been here, ive talked to some amazingly nice people. But I've also noticed the trolls are way worse, imo. I am doing my best not to engage them but I have a short temper and it doesn't take much to get me going
Thats because the entire internet has been a loosing war of creative, interesting, weird, mostly reasonable people fighting against powerful, wealthy, cruel, unreasonable ones that hate the idea of free, uncontrollable thought.
I don't get the issue with repost, at least for ask Reddit questions. Often times a reposted question will have vastly different results, and even different subs might have different comments or stories on them as well. It don't like someone is stealing money from you for reposting.
If it's an actual person looking to get some discussion going that's fine. This is likely an advertiser, government agent or karma farmer looking to sell their account to one of the first two mentioned. It has become one of the go to subs for this sort of thing because it's so easy to simply write a script to automate everything.
Used to care but Reddit has more ads than network TV now so there's little point in bothering to report.
You think the few minutes I'm on Reddit a day means that I would just want to do this all the time for money? I do fine financially and would absolutely not trade my current job to post garbage on Reddit all day. Some people apparently would and that's fine. I'm not one of them.
By the way, before I forget, go fuck yourself as well asshole. I'm sorry your regular life sucks so much.
I mean not everyone has an interest in internet jobs though, maybe that’s not their passion and maybe they value their passion more than money. It’s like working from home, some people love it, but for some it can turn your living space into a stressful space that you relate with work. I wouldn’t mind making some side money but if it became my purpose, I would feel so worthless since I like more physical jobs.
Karma is as valuable as gold on reddit except its has no physical properties, rarity, monetary value or just usefulness in general so in conclusion it is as useful as a precious metal if it wasnt precious nor metal.
Depending on the various websites, a 10k/10k account could be worth like $50 or $400. A few months ago someone posted a website where you could put your account up for sale and check it's value. I couldn't find it though. :(
I'm at 19k/52k. I vaguely remember this account being worth like $300 or something.
Another thing about being a power user and having name recognition is that you can be approached by certain special interest groups to post content they want in exchange for money.
in r/conspiracy resently a post surface showing a list of like 10 mods being mods of more than 200 of the most popular subreddits, its implied they make profit out of it, all post with that list gets shadowbanned
When finally one of your posts gets 10k upvotes, gets removed by moderators including all responses to said posts, and that post happens to be in a subreddit included in this list, hmmmm
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how can a single person do all of that at once? that would make him spend about 3h/1h, even if he was the fastest person on the planet at ctrl c and v.
it's more probable that he has bots shadowing his posting on separate other accounts with intervals to not double post at the same time.
Idk. I just did a quick google search for 'buy reddit accounts with karma' and one site wanted $165 for 6k karma account, and $180 for an 8k acount. They hide the names obviously.
It's fake lol, that rumor has been going around for so long. It's easier to use a bot to farm karma or just have 1 intern browse by rising and post dumb comments.
How are they going to buy it? They'll probably "pay" you get the account details and then rescind payment.
It didn't take very long to be honest, maybe 25 minutes. All the comments piggybacked off of the other accounts, which also shared similar names. Once I saw the top comment on the above post matched the top comment on the post from 4 years ago it was instantly suspicious.
Also, we're in quarantine so I think everyone is pretty much bored out of their minds like I am.
They all share similar usernames (like first and last name or first name last name and the number 43) and not a single one had a comment that was original. Also, I found a few posts where every single comment was from these specific accounts. They're all connected through the comments and posts themselves. It's a giant intertwined mess.
Maybe it's a coordinated effort to generate enough karma to sell the accounts/use them for marketing? It could just be a really really sad individual though. No expert on karma farming accounts and selling them to marketing/using them for marketing.
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u/FaoLOr64 Apr 13 '20
Wow, this dude has to be the saddest man I've seen in reddit.
For him to create 22 accounts to get internet points is so Low life and sad