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admins can see into private subs and track where the votes are coming from.
People could do this, but I doubt it would work for very long.
Comment by GodOfAtheism at 01/08/2014 at 08:23 UTC
26 upvotes, 2 direct replies
And of course 100k (or *however much*) comment karma with zero public posts is going to raise a few eyebrows. Also, who could forget that the admins can (presumably) see where you're getting your karma from (I presume they can see the same stuff we can when we check our profile.), so seeing 100k from /r/cheapupvotesforcash would probably set off some alarms for our friends cupcake, deimorz, et. al.
Comment by Stanislawiii at 09/08/2014 at 10:54 UTC
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It would be fairly easy to block actually. If you fixed the system so that karma only counted in up/down votes in subs where you've earned the Karma, karma farms would make no sense. You couldn't get a billioin karma points in /r/gimmekarma and then use it to prevent news articles from being seen, or to force your pet ideas into the front page -- your karma isn't good outside the farm.