According to the moderators, companies that sell peptides and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) have been posting strategically in the forum to shape content that AI models later...
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.
I checked my first one (that was banned later) once out of curiosity. 8ish years over 100k karma and it was like $20? You’d have to really grind to make any money like having a bot farm or something. Granted I never actually checked my account specifically, just similar accounts with similar age and karma.
This was years ago that I looked. I wouldn’t be surprised if the number has gone down since then.
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.
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.
I read about some online game that had gold, and these hackers learned to fabricate it after compromising the system, and were selling it to players, is that what you are referring to? That was a long time ago, not sure exactly, over 10 years though.
Huh, interesting. I tried to find the article about the hackers, could not get it on enshittified search, pretty sure it was in Harper’s Magazine. I think the hackers were in se asia or something but forget.
Before they just did it for fake internet points called karma.
To then sell those accounts to people trying to manipulate the real users on the site.
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.
I checked my first one (that was banned later) once out of curiosity. 8ish years over 100k karma and it was like $20? You’d have to really grind to make any money like having a bot farm or something. Granted I never actually checked my account specifically, just similar accounts with similar age and karma.
This was years ago that I looked. I wouldn’t be surprised if the number has gone down since then.
Oh gosh well mine was like $5 then lol. Yeah it really doesn’t seem worth it to me but then I live in a totally different economy I suppose.
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.
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.
I read about some online game that had gold, and these hackers learned to fabricate it after compromising the system, and were selling it to players, is that what you are referring to? That was a long time ago, not sure exactly, over 10 years though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_farming
Huh, interesting. I tried to find the article about the hackers, could not get it on enshittified search, pretty sure it was in Harper’s Magazine. I think the hackers were in se asia or something but forget.