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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 @johnson_waters @cazzodicristo @at @the @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 0 points 1 year ago (7 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.

[–] minnieo@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

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

[–] atocci@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (5 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.

[–] ozen@kbin.social 0 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 0 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

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[–] CatBookCat@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

is it weird that i don't care? i don't care about oodles karma. 0 fucks to give. why do people care?

[–] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Well, when all your posts will start with a minus 5 and become invisible maybe you will start to care? Because you WILL have your haters too. Some people are that crazy.

[–] Virkkunen@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I do care because even though these virtual point mean fuck all, users will degrade everyone's experience to try and farm them. We'll be getting low quality, rage-bait inducing posts, reposts being boosted to the top and actual good content being overshadowed just because an arsehole wants bigger numbers

[–] DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Dude is just some tool trying to play the same games he played on reddit. Deserves an IP ban if you ask me.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not karma farming, that's straight up vote manipulation.

Absolutely. They are doing it with the intention of karma farming because they only post shitposts and useless Reddit crap like this, but this is a serious issue if they move on to opinion posts and politics.

[–] HorreC@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] minnieo@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

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[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What do these people do with their fake internet points?

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[–] static@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I have not looked into the details, but this makes a solid case for public up/downvotes, it makes fuckery public.

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[–] Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

As someone who uses Both kbin and lemmy I started removing my upvotes on lemmy because I thought did it by accident until I realized with lemmy it does that automatically when you post something making the default score 1 but on kbin it is 0 because it does not do that. Still the idea of upvoting yourself to get a higher point score just seems silly.

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