• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    335 months 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

    • FundMECFSOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      135 months 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
        link
        English
        45 months ago

        You dont even need api for upvote farming

        Its like 3 lines of selenium

        • FundMECFSOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          35 months 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.

    • @rtxn
      link
      English
      105 months 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.