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		sdeaf on Nov 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) ... 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?

_ps6d on Nov 4, 2020 [–]

I don't understand what you're asking.

pmiller2 on Nov 4, 2020 | [–]

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)?"

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