@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

  • HorreC
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    61 year ago

    all those accounts come back 404, maybe admins are on your side on this and took care of the issue.

    • minnieo
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      31 year ago

      Direct @ links don’t seem to work currently. The accs still exist.

      • RheingoldRiver
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        11 year ago

        They work if you left-click them, and not if you center-click them. I ticketed it last week. (on kbin)

        • HorreC
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          11 year ago

          yeah it seems to be that, if you @ someone that link comes back 404, but if you get them proper (from a comment or post) the page comes up. Thanks for pointing this out.

          • RheingoldRiver
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            21 year ago

            That’s not quite what I meant: Here is an @ link: @HorreC If you left-click it, so it opens in the same tab, it should work properly. But usually people don’t want to do that when they open profiles, they want to center-click them so they save the original tab. Try center-clicking it; you’ll get a 404.

            It’s a bizarre bug haha

              • RheingoldRiver
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                11 year ago

                no problem! figure a bunch of people are confused about it, now there’s a link on kbin anyone can point to :)

      • HorreC
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        11 year ago

        damn it chica you are all over this site (I liked a lot of the alt looks you posted and noticed it was all you), but your name if I open a new tab on it is golden, but all of theirs come back with the 404, but like @RheingoldRiver said it might be a bug related thing.

    • artisanrox
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      11 year ago

      If you open the account in a new window it comes back 404. You have to directly just click the link and it’ll show stats in the same window.

    • ozen
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      11 year ago

      they all work for me when I click them. Some of them the pages just say “empty” probably due to them deleting their histories, but doesn’t say 404

    • fishos
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      -11 year ago

      I can still see them all tho on my end. I’m using the web app on kbin.