tldr: It didn't work and the bot never made a popular post.
Thanks mate. Nearly wasted life reading that.
I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
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Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
#102One of the bots in /r/SubredditSimulator was the "top today" bot, which would just take the top 500 posts from /r/all in the last 24 hours, pick one of the links at random, and repost it with a gibberish title made from a markov chain of those 500 posts' titles. With such a small set of input, the titles almost never made any sense at all. I had to shut that bot down, because eventually just reposting a random popula…
What do you assume the source and cause of the upvotes were? Browsing /r/all it is easy to attribute the post and comments as pre-programmed. Faulty algorithms? algorithms working as intended? vote purchase? intentional spam? Do you scrape, log, and track, and compare user comments, and profiles on reddit or any other site? What data do you collect?
I don't understand what you're asking.
Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
#103A couple of years back, it was announced that the trailer for one of the new Star Wars movies would debut during halftime of Monday Night Football. There's always a rush to post stuff like links to new movie trailers "first" on Reddit, so as to get the most fake internet points. I guessed that the trailer would probably get added to the Star Wars YouTube page at around the same time it aired on TV, so I wrote a scrip…
Reddit etc are basically games.
Thank you! I said this on Reddit just a few days ago and got downvoted for it. Specifically, I said that karma was an element of gamification. Of course, they did not like that. :P
Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
#104This is a reminder that account karma on Reddit and Hacker News doesn't really mean anything and doesn't make your posts more valuable, or give it any additional benefit in the algorithms. (I say that as someone with 153k Reddit karma and a user ranked #57 on the HN leaderboards: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders ) Going truly viral on Reddit/HN is still ultimately random as well, which is why reposting (within re…
> ...doesn't really mean anything and doesn't make your posts more valuable.. True for posts, and true for comments if they get upvotes. Downvotes however make comments less valuable. I imagine some people see the gray/faded comments and just presume low value content, which may not be the case.
I have showdead turned on, and, while you're right that most greyed out comments are low quality, there are a few that are just inexplicably greyed out. I vouch for these whenever possible, even if I don't necessarily agree with the content of the comment.
Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you assume the source and cause of the upvotes were? Browsing /r/all it is easy to attribute the post and comments as pre-programmed. Faulty algorithms? algorithms working as intended? vote purchase? intentional spam? Do you scrape, log, and track, and compare user comments, and profiles on reddit or any other site? What data do you collect?
I don't understand what you're asking.
They appear to be asking "exactly why do you think your bot got so many upvotes (i.e. which tactics or techniques caused it to get so many upvotes)?"
Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
#106A couple of years back, it was announced that the trailer for one of the new Star Wars movies would debut during halftime of Monday Night Football. There's always a rush to post stuff like links to new movie trailers "first" on Reddit, so as to get the most fake internet points. I guessed that the trailer would probably get added to the Star Wars YouTube page at around the same time it aired on TV, so I wrote a scrip…
>But it did make me think about just how easy it is to farm karma on Reddit, and how useless it is as a proxy for "trust" or "reputation" or anything other than what it is - fake internet points. I have to say, do people really take karma, upvotes, credit, fake internet points etc. As a measure of trustworthiness? I know reddit pushes this idea but do people actually participating in communities with point systems se…
Years ago, I saw an auction website where bidders placed bids in penny amounts. Supposedly, you could win an item at a fraction of the price of the product. Bidding was real time, and you won the auction if you held the bid for 15 seconds. You "spent" your bid and never got it back if you lost the auction.
You never got to see how many people was bidding against you, and I always wondered how you could know it wasn't the website jacking up the bid.
I am reminded of that scam every time I see a karma/upvote system.