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Re:Reddit bans The Atlantic, Businessweek, others in major a... by stcredzero on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @07:31PM (#4109040)
A feature like that is a tremendous boon to karma whores. The Atlantic probably isn't the site to accomplish this, but such a feature could be used to effectively "outsource" your site's spamming to karma whoring cabals.
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Re:Reddit bans The Atlantic, Businessweek, others in major a... by hef19898 on Thursday June 14, 2012 @08:52AM (#4111066)
The thing I don't understand is why people are actually seeking karma by these means. Sonner or later they have to get cought, no? And once you are, all that precious karma will just evaporate, no?

I can understand spammers, kind of and even trolls in their own logic. But karma whores, in my understanding WANT to belong. So such a move would be quite, well, stupid.

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