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RE: Vote Bots and Most Auto-Voting is a SCAM
I have seen one user where the same six people vote on every post and it nets about $20/post. I assume they all do the same and earn a tidy sum that way. Drags the system down
Had a guy with 1400+ new accounts with no value doing similar shit and they had no investment in the platform. Appealing to greedy people to stop being greedy is mostly a waste of my time, but I hope explaining how it mathematically fucks all of us will wake up a few of them.
Don't think it will. If you have the time to create all the accounts, scripted or otherwise and gets them all voting then any gains might drive some.
I have seen bots? or people with high power clean that sort of crap up with huge downvotes killing all profit. That stops people :)
Saw one person spam a load of copied stuff and they got hammered
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Ya I was checking it out earlier. The problem with flagging that kind of shit, and some of us do, is that it drains power that we normally use for rewarding new users. The people that control most of the voting power are the ones selling their voting power and that leaves people that actually give a shit without enough power to do anything really.