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Reddit will start paying you real money for your karma::Reddit announced a contributor program on Monday, which awards users actual, real money for their fake internet points. Now, eligible users will be able

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh no. What will happen if I run a bot farm of 10,000 accounts that upvote my sock puppet account?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might just cover a portion of your infra costs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Use someone else's infrastructure. (It wouldn't surprise me one bit if botnets ran a side hustle generating Reddit accounts to sell later.)