StopMassDownvotingYouIdiot

Call out post for a particular karma farmer on kbin.social

@pollodiabolo - this user is a karma whore of epic proportions and they have made a shit load (10-15+) accounts on kbin that boost and upvote each other while sometimes mass downvoting others that have posts trending towards the top - all to farm karma.... #kbinMeta

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/134579

Call out post for a particular karma farmer on kbin.social - /kbin meta - kbin.social

@pollodiabolo - this user is a karma whore of epic proportions and they have made a shit load (10-15+) accounts on kbin that boost and upvote each other while sometimes mass downvoting others that have posts trending towards the top - all to farm karma....

Jul 4, 2023 at 1:11amWeb
Show threadcontextual_somebodyJul 4, 2023
What a dork ass loser
Show threadStopMassDownvotingYouIdiotJul 4, 2023
Its concerning that kbin might turn into Reddit with low effort shitposts hitting the front page most of the time because a few people decide to make tons of accounts and boost their posts early on to take advantage of the algorithm. They absolutely are a dork ass loser for ruining what could be a good thing - all for fake internet points, sheesh.
Show threadminnieoJul 4, 2023

In that thread, I saw someone had an idea that maybe rep should cap off, like if you reach over say 5000, it would just display 5000+ or something and I thought that could be a decent solution. That would discourage people from posting with the goal of increasing rep, and encourage people to post just because they want to participate in the conversation.

I'm sure there are more elegant ways to deal with it, and perhaps we should have that discussion. The fact that you can give a post 3 upvotes (upvote = 1 boost = 2) makes it really easy for someone to rep-farm if they wanted too. Perhaps upvotes/boosts from accounts with the same IP shouldn't count toward rep?

Show threadStopMassDownvotingYouIdiotJul 4, 2023

Echoing this, that was an excellent suggestion by @Catch42. There should be capped karma and magazine specific karma.

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Did Google really just say they'll delete accounts "together with all data"? 😂 - technology - kbin.social

Show threadCatBookCatJul 4, 2023
is it weird that i don't care? i don't care about oodles karma. 0 fucks to give. why do people care?
Show threadDoucheAsaurusJul 4, 2023
Dude is just some tool trying to play the same games he played on reddit. Deserves an IP ban if you ask me.
Show threadVirkkunenJul 4, 2023
I do care because even though these virtual point mean fuck all, users will degrade everyone's experience to try and farm them. We'll be getting low quality, rage-bait inducing posts, reposts being boosted to the top and actual good content being overshadowed just because an arsehole wants bigger numbers