[MichaelZuo]

I hadn’t thought advanced karma farming was possible… since those would be significant enough to attract moderator attention.

The simple karma farming I can understand since there are too many attempts. So they just let automated filters deal with it and a few might slip through.

Edit: Unless the mods dont bother removing all the falsely accumulated karma after catching the advanced farming rings. Then I could see that being constantly done.

[filup]

The karma street credit system was not designed with LLM's in mind.

It's going to be harder and harder to determine the legitimacy of a post or reply.

There will be no good way to determine if your speaking to a human because it will become completly indistinguishable.

The good news for HN is it's slightly easier to navigate and use judgement with post history.

What can you do with a lot of high karma accounts? Alot. Planting seeds in this community can go a very long way.

[MichaelZuo]

This might actually be less scary… than the prospect of genuinely mentally deranged people going around HN with 10,000+ karma accounts and messing with decent people.

Which would be profoundly disturbing…