• teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
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      53 minutes ago

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

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        42 minutes ago

        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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          24 minutes ago

          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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            19 minutes ago

            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.