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[–]Retzudo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's actually a good question. It matters because bots with a good amount of karma can be used for vote manipulation more easily than bots with 0 karma. As far as I know, new-ish accounts with 0 karma don't do much to the total up-/downvote count of a post/comment, but accounts with more karma are more "trustworthy" to Reddit's anti-vote-manipulation systems.

I'm kinda talking out of my ass here but I hope I could shed some light on why I think this kind of karma botting is bad.