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Oh no. What will happen if I run a bot farm of 10,000 accounts that upvote my sock puppet account?
You might just cover a portion of your infra costs
Use someone else's infrastructure. (It wouldn't surprise me one bit if botnets ran a side hustle generating Reddit accounts to sell later.)