"They literally just submitted links across the internet onto Reddit for the sake of gaining Karma, as if it was Steem Power that actually has value."
This is something I have never understood. I have however heard that there is a market for trading Reddit accounts. High karma accounts can probably be sold for some amount of dollars, never took the time to investigate further.
By the way, do you know if karma will stay even if you delete the posts and comments they were made from?
It does, so yes, if you saw a comment or post of yours doing bad and getting downvoted you could just delete it out of existence.
So these spammers could earn high amounts of karma with shitposts, then delete their history and sell the account forward.
I had to investigate now that we're talking about this -
Interesting. Karma is worth something after all.
wow, and now that they combined them both its probably even better for their business... GG, reddit.
Yep, hard to believe it but it's true. People buy these to scam, spam and steer the discussion with. And I guess it can be a status symbol for some as well as Reddit is hitting the mainstream.