this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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To expand on 1 & 2: the amount of karma farming accounts and the monetisation of karma. It became second nature to check the OP account and top comment accounts to see if they were repost bots. Supporting them through engagement meant inadvertently helping bad actors who needed legitimate looking accounts, to either sell of to use. Reddit was absolutely rife with them.