I’m sure many new users are curious.

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    1 year ago

    There isn’t explicitly a profit motive on here (unlike almost every other big social media site).

    So you can do away with the clickbait-y, karma or like farming…

    We don’t do that here.

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      “So you can do away with the clickbait-y, karma or like farming…”

      Are there many individual users who participate in these type of activities?

      My understanding is that a lot of it is automated: farming with the intent to make accounts look legitimate and eventually manipulate public opinion to whatever ends (like selling a product/service).

      Is kbin doing anything different that would curb or dissuade such behavior?

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        Yeah, but the ROI here is way less since the users are more savvy initially. Eventually it’ll homogenize out and you’ll get auto bots.

        This post written by a meat popsicle.

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      On that note, upvotes and downvotes upvote matter even less here (“here” meaning kbin) as the factor dictating comment order in the “hot” ranking is boosting (think retweet equivalent), not the vote count.

      Not sure how that goes on Lemmy though.