• @[email protected]
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    285 hours ago

    I just found out that those pages to buy votes exist, I knew that bots and stuff existed, but I thought it was something more “hidden”, from 4 cents per vote, it doesn’t surprise me that the site is completely going down the toilet

    • @rtxn
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      84 hours ago

      In some impoverished regions, vote farming is an important (and sometimes only) source of some people’s income. Create account, upvote post, dozens or hundreds of times a day. They get paid slave wages, if at all.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      124 hours ago

      it’s so essy to make a bot too. And reddit is earning loads through the API so they don’t bother to stop it.

      • @Restaldt
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        238 minutes ago

        You dont even need api for upvote farming

        Its like 3 lines of selenium

        • @[email protected]OP
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          236 minutes ago

          If you do it en masse, reddit detects it and sends your account a warning. It’s purposefully built to make you use the API.