[nether1]

Only 37 years old when he died and having only sold one painting, van Gogh sadly did not live long enough to see the extent of his legacy – which includes his works now being some of the most expensive in the world.

[haunter]

Is this a karma farming bot? New account, comment is copy pasted from a blog [1] which otherwise only appear on .ru domain malware sites [2]

1, https://www.aruma.com.au/about-us/blog/8-fascinating-facts-a...

2, https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Only+37+years+old+when+he...

My guess, either farming karma so they can later sell the account or they can use it when people are buying upvotes

[jermaustin1]

Does karma matter enough on HN to want to farm it?

[sva_]

It matters if you want to build a downvote farm of bots to manipulate the frontpage or order/visibility of comments.