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.

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You will continue to see me calling out this person and their alts. This can't and won't become another Reddit and karma whoring folks need to be called out and discouraged.

The following accounts are all the same person and in the very unlikely event they are not, they are still collectively vote manipulating.

@pollodiabolo @journalism_died @ishitwhite @muftiboy @kilkennygriffin @jeremyfurzen @syscollapse @riseupagainstthem @ruse @johnson_waters @cazzodicristo @at @the @Schluchtschiss @fuckoffyoudumbcunt @extremelybullish @cringeminge4 @NoCunteryForOldMen @yesbabyyy @kneel_pleb

A few of these accounts have since cleared their boosting history but with some common sense it should be easy to verify.

If I get mass downvoted, be sure to see the age of the accounts as well as whether they are on this list to gauge their authenticity. I am pretty sure this won't reach many but I'll spam it enough times so it eventually will.

EDIT: This is not a comprehensive list and there are obviously more alts. These are beyond a reasonable doubt involved in mass self-upvoting.

EDIT2: Almost every downvote I have on this post are by accounts that were made after I posted this. They all belong to the same user that I have called out here. This is pathetic and should be proof enough that vote manipulation is something we need to deal with.

EDIT3: More accounts to add to the list: @puny_human @latvianbloke @pedanticc @SONOFNAT

EDIT4: And now they've started to remove their downvotes from new accounts and add them from the list. Bruh I don't even get it at this point. I'm just gonna go to bed that person's a headache to figure out honestly. Night y'all.

Name and shame karma farmers.

EDIT5: This is an excellent example, you might see some familiar names

Image in case they decide to retract their votes again

HorreC,
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all those accounts come back 404, maybe admins are on your side on this and took care of the issue.

fishos,
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I can still see them all tho on my end. I'm using the web app on kbin.

ozen,
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they all work for me when I click them. Some of them the pages just say "empty" probably due to them deleting their histories, but doesn't say 404

artisanrox,
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If you open the account in a new window it comes back 404. You have to directly just click the link and it'll show stats in the same window.

minnieo,
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Direct @ links don't seem to work currently. The accs still exist.

RheingoldRiver,

They work if you left-click them, and not if you center-click them. I ticketed it last week. (on kbin)

HorreC,
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yeah it seems to be that, if you @ someone that link comes back 404, but if you get them proper (from a comment or post) the page comes up. Thanks for pointing this out.

RheingoldRiver,

That's not quite what I meant: Here is an @ link: @HorreC If you left-click it, so it opens in the same tab, it should work properly. But usually people don't want to do that when they open profiles, they want to center-click them so they save the original tab. Try center-clicking it; you'll get a 404.

It's a bizarre bug haha

HorreC,
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ahhh, thank you for walking me thru that!

RheingoldRiver,

no problem! figure a bunch of people are confused about it, now there's a link on kbin anyone can point to :)

HorreC,
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damn it chica you are all over this site (I liked a lot of the alt looks you posted and noticed it was all you), but your name if I open a new tab on it is golden, but all of theirs come back with the 404, but like @RheingoldRiver said it might be a bug related thing.

PabloDiscobar,
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We should seriously consider removing the upvote/downvote system completely. As discussed here, the system is too easy to abuse for bots and crazy people. Already now I have my own mass downvoters, you will have yours too sooner or later.

Gamers_Mate,

As someone who uses Both kbin and lemmy I started removing my upvotes on lemmy because I thought did it by accident until I realized with lemmy it does that automatically when you post something making the default score 1 but on kbin it is 0 because it does not do that. Still the idea of upvoting yourself to get a higher point score just seems silly.

xuxebiko,

What do these people do with their fake internet points?

anathema_device,
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@xuxebiko buy NFTs, of course :)

xuxebiko,

LMFAO!

thanks, I needed that laugh.

anathema_device,
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@StopMassDownvotingYouIdiot I just don't know why people behave like this :

CatBookCat,
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is it weird that i don't care? i don't care about oodles karma. 0 fucks to give. why do people care?

DoucheAsaurus,
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Dude is just some tool trying to play the same games he played on reddit. Deserves an IP ban if you ask me.

PabloDiscobar,
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Well, when all your posts will start with a minus 5 and become invisible maybe you will start to care? Because you WILL have your haters too. Some people are that crazy.

Virkkunen,
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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

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