Comment on What % of Lemmy memes and reaction-bait is posted for the purpose of farming Lemmy comments?

jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If you want good karma with top comments that won’t be immediately called out as stoked from another Reddit thread, maybe, since some people have got wise to that? I dunno. I’m probably giving this more brain power than I should.

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  • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My impression is that karma matters less here. But I never used reddit much and I have never used Lemmy either, so I'm a bit of an anti-expert.

    I think the bots are set up by people who simply wanted to see the content. I don't think anyone is trying to farm anything here.

    Ideally they should all be tagged as bots, which would make them less problematic.

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    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Right, I think I wasn’t clear. I didn’t mean farming karma here, I meant posting here to copy Lemmy comments to post on Reddit to farm karma there.

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      • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Ah. That's a fun idea.

        I think it's too much effort though - you can get upvotes easier than that. But I'm sure content is already stolen from here for some uses, and it'll only get more common as time goes by. It's in the nature of posting things online, I guess.

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