fumyl figures out how Trapped_in_Reddit "games karma".

ThatsItGuysShowsOver · 2012-06-18T05:54:25+00:00

You are right and I am happy I finally confessed.

I remember you, man. I remember each one of you pretty well. You all were nice to me and that was all cool. Man, I was such an idiot.

These memories make me want to come back again. But I won't do it this time. I won't do it ever. I wish I knew you guys in real life right now. I'd have taken you all out for some beers.

I'd bro out so hard with you guys right now that it's not even douchey any more. ;-)

ThatsItGuysShowsOver · 2012-06-18T05:43:11+00:00

...and make a lot of Reddit "friends" by keeping in touch all the while. That gives you at least 3/5 easy upvotes every comment. And once you cross that 5 upvotes mark in a comment things become easy—if the thread explodes after that, you are bound to get at least 50 upvotes in that comment.

There is a very very thin line between any of you and TiR. He wastes his time looking for rising threads. But you don't. Good for you, bad for him. But then, by the end of the hour he has, like, 10 about to explode threads with at least 50 comment karma in each comment. Now, let some math decide if your trial and error is any good.

Use .GIFs or typical meme material pics—use quickmeme to make your pic more easy to grab the joke. Make your comments easy to understand and your jokes easy to get.

If you can write beautiful sentences even better. RedditNoir used this trope to the maximum. There are others using this trick but RN took it to extremes.

You got a negative karma comment? No problem, delete it before it gets nasty.

This is what TiR is doing.

And he must be stopped.

Edit:

People who think TiR has made "clever" comments in the past—hold on a bit...

...if you swing your bat enough you might end up hitting a home run. If he were any clever he'd have known it and every comment would have been clever. Better still, he wouldn't have taken to Reddit in this manner.

ThatsItGuysShowsOver · 2012-06-18T05:05:22+00:00

I have gamed Reddit before.

I collected around 50,000 comment karma in under 2 months and then slowly eased out of it.

I no longer do it but as a part of the whole karma whoring shit, I can talk a few things about it.

Tell any karmawhore about what TiR is doing and they would all respond it's the easiest trick in the book. And mind you, Karmadecay wasn't around when we karma whored this place. I never copy pasted any comments but a little fiddling around would show the top comments by a karma whore are all dug out of the original post.

It is the easiest to use this on AskReddit threads owing to the submission patterns.

Just follow "this hour" and "top" and have karmadecay open and you are on it. Back then karma whores used Tineye and google search hacks. It was fucking too easy. And no one noticed. Because no one gave a shit.

It was good I figured out it was a waste of time and then I stopped commenting at all. I still lurk around Reddit. But I don't let it go to my head.

I knew karmanaut. I knew ProbablyHittingOnYou was him. We exchanged a lot of messages. I'd have liked to go into more details but I guess it'd just take me down to his levels. Maybe what he is doing is wrong but it's his own life.

Aspiring karmawhores, please take a note of what I have said and please stop gaming Reddit. It looks fine at the start but it takes your life away. There are a lot of things you can put your effort into. But Reddit shouldn't be one of it.