• Foni@lemm.eeEnglish
    33·
    2 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

    • FundMECFSResearchOPEnglish
      13·
      2 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.

        • FundMECFSResearchOPEnglish
          3·
          2 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 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.