[Aissen]

Even if that were true, no harm done…

But imagine for a minute it isn't. What's the point of farming karma on a throwaway account ? Plus, we are social creatures, and sometimes we just need to offload our personal stories. Quite often there's a new fun thing that I wish I could write about or tell the world, but I don't because of real consequences to some people, or even myself. Recounting these stories is cathartic. And to go back to the original point, they are also weirdly cathartic even if fabricated.

[dave5104]

> What's the point of farming karma on a throwaway account ?

reddit accounts are built up and then sold[0][1], and then used for who knows what. Helps to have an "established" account with high karma and a post history.

In more popular subreddits (like /r/funny), you'll see frequent re-postings of content from 5+ years ago just for the "karma whoring" as it's called.

[0] https://www.soar.sh/service/buy-reddit-accounts/ [1] https://quantummarketer.com/buy-reddit-accounts/

[tacocataco]

It's not just reposting content. These bots go as far as to copy the top couple of comments from the post made years ago.

[vlunkr]

The harm done is that impressionable young people on /r/antiwork are given false hope in their dream of getting paid to do nothing so they can play more video games.

[pixl97]

Ah, hackernews, the anti-antiwork. There are many things I come to HN for, but looking for a healthy work culture is not one of them.

[imtringued]

Let everything die of the building plague.

[hyprmynd]

What a terrible dream, especially since most games are just jobs now.

[AshamedCaptain]

You can always play old games over and over again...