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      To then sell those accounts to people trying to manipulate the real users on the site.

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        Yeah, I’m sure that was going on a LOT, I never really had it in the forefront of my mind though, mostly because thinking of ways to make money seems to be an alien concept to my mind. I wonder how much mine was worth before I got banned… probably not much anyways it was mostly comment karma from answering questions. Oh well lol.

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          It probably wouldn’t get that much either, most of those karma farmers are in low income countries with lots of english speakers, eastern europe, india, places like that.

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            I suppose, I just heard about the vastness of the old WoW gold farming economy semi recently, the amount of money going through that kind of stuff is just mind boggling.

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    biohackers is a shit sub, on a subject that silicon valley internet douche lords were already big on. Fuck those guys, anyone on that community is already a fucking tool.

    It would be like complaining about manipulative posts on a singularity sub.

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      It’s really strange that the mods in the article are talking about the risks for their users by spammers while operating a subreddit that is totally encouraging people to inject them with really strange, untested stuff

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        I remember they were big on this methylene blue stuff, that rfk was hyping, apparently people that take it if they get autopsied they have blue in their brains. But yeah, all sots of weird stuff.

        Biohacking was already a word used by all of these fountain of youth chasers following snake oil salesman, that is what they are.

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          32 minutes ago

          I wasted so much money on different nootropics over the years, but it was stuff like piracetam, centroxophine, deprenyl, hydergine, stuff that’s actually been tested on people before, and to be honest it would be hard to find a reputable lab nowadays unless you are a legitimate researcher.