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LackingUtility t1_jd8h58m wrote

After looking at that subreddit and his posts, my assumption was that it was a karma farm: post a thousand 1-sentence new submissions, get them upvoted a half dozen times by bot accounts or other subreddit posters, and you've got several thousand post karma. Keep that up for a few weeks and you're into the hundreds of thousands, and then you leverage that to, say, ask to be made a mod of a legitimate subreddit.

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North-East1989 t1_jd8rfnk wrote

Its not a karma farm. I found him on facebook. He really is mentally ill.

A few of us keep saying it: the guy needs help

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Aesop_Rocks t1_jda4smf wrote

I'm not asking to identify him, I don't even use Facebook, but can you share some insight into how you found him? I'm guessing you were able to triangulate him based on posts in that subreddit of his? That kind of thing fascinated and terrifies me.

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Kriegenstein t1_jd8xohp wrote

I read through a few pages of his posts on Monday, and the vast majority only had a single upvote. The most I saw was 3 IIRC.

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caminandoennubes OP t1_jd8lpdn wrote

That's a really good thought! I'm mostly a lurker, I would never think of hacking Reddit karma like that.

That makes me feel better. Makes the behavior seem more rational.

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