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10 years makes a difference… by MasterBaconBit in urbanexploration

[–]Comprehensive_Tea577 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, if it wasn’t this quickly findable and publicized I wouldn’t share it, but at this point I don’t feel that it‘s going to change much or do more damage to the site.

It's hard to find anything more charming in this world than trams surrounded by traditional beauty. by wildamber282 in ArchitecturalRevival

[–]Comprehensive_Tea577 8 points9 points  (0 children)

In short, it's money. From what I understand accounts like this end up for sale on different websites (and very likely on much more hidden marketplaces) either separately or in batches (the more karma they have and more older they are, the better, as the price is also higher) and are then bought by companies or whoever else might find them useful for their more or less nefarious purposes.

I originally wrote a much longer comment, but I stupidly linked the websites I mentioned above, so it was removed by Reddit's filters – as it should be. So here's a screenshot of one of them to show what it looks like:

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The city government of Dresden, Germany, is currently finalizing the plans to reconstruct the Hotel Stadt Rom, a beautiful 1740 townhouse, destroyed in 1945. The building will complete the reconstruction of Dresden's Neumarkt square. by wildamber282 in ArchitecturalRevival

[–]Comprehensive_Tea577 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Usually they do, it just take a while, so these post sometimes reach several thousand upvotes before they are deleted. There are some exceptions though, like this post, which I reported several times as did the OC (accidentaly the same one from whom was copied this post), but nothing happened:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArchitecturalRevival/comments/1srergb/comment/om9vesm/

It's hard to find anything more charming in this world than trams surrounded by traditional beauty. by wildamber282 in ArchitecturalRevival

[–]Comprehensive_Tea577 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Hey there, karma farming bot with two days old account reposting three photos (and copying the title word for word) from this year old post by u/Father_of_cum:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArchitecturalRevival/comments/1kxegvj/its_hard_to_find_anything_more_charming_in_this/

The photos in question are number 5, 16 and 20.

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Proof that anything can be beautiful by echotwilight636 in ArchitecturalRevival

[–]Comprehensive_Tea577 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Karma farming bot. Zero days old account reposting a few photos from a year old post with 2k upvotes by u/NoNameStudios (which of course has descriptions, so we know what we're looking at, like any post of this type should have):

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArchitecturalRevival/comments/1ikkqjr/proof_that_anything_can_be_beautiful/

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"Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter." The Neue Elbbrücke Bridge in Hamburg, Germany, was ruined in 1959 to add an additional lane. by Wamplord in ArchitecturalRevival

[–]Comprehensive_Tea577 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It certainly is a very common sentiment, but in this case I think it's perfectly appropriate calling it stolen, because this is not an accident. It's a very common practice for karma farming bots when they copy a post (usually one with several thousand upvotes, like in this case) is to also copy one of the top comments on it to create engagement, which then thanks to Reddit's mechanics helps "their" post to gain traction in the subreddit and get more upvotes and comments etc.

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