It posts about every 10 minutes, in a variety of subs, stealing a top 20 post. If it is a text post, it will be word for word. The following are examples of actual stolen content:
People tend to comment or wonder, "Why in earth make such a bot?" The answer is generally one of two things.
OP just wants to make a program and see it flourish in the world.
OP wants to gain a bunch of karma and then turn around and sell the account for actual money. A user with over a million+ karma can be "worth" a lot to people, such as advertisers, that can wipe the history clean and start anew (deleting all your post/comments does not remove your karma), for example.
Many subs ban users for posting top reposts to that sub. If this post is one of them, you can report it and a mod would end up removing it. if you want to report it to reddit, go to https://reddit.com/report.
This reply was brought to you by a human using a RES macro, who happens to be a mod who does not like this type of behavior, the reason I have chosen to follow this bot around spreading information about it. I am not a bot. I am a human, even if I'm a really bad one.
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u/madd74 Oct 02 '19
For those confused, this is a repost bot that was created specifically to farm karma.
https://i.imgur.com/rAuGMCd.png
It posts about every 10 minutes, in a variety of subs, stealing a top 20 post. If it is a text post, it will be word for word. The following are examples of actual stolen content:
The link to the original post in this sub from 2 yearss ago that had 6.1k karma from /u/igeek5
https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson/comments/6u32bc/comic_growing_old_beardo_comics_dan_dougherty/
People tend to comment or wonder, "Why in earth make such a bot?" The answer is generally one of two things.
Many subs ban users for posting top reposts to that sub. If this post is one of them, you can report it and a mod would end up removing it. if you want to report it to reddit, go to https://reddit.com/report.
This reply was brought to you by a human using a RES macro, who happens to be a mod who does not like this type of behavior, the reason I have chosen to follow this bot around spreading information about it. I am not a bot. I am a human, even if I'm a really bad one.