[khoury]

Can someone please explain what the motivation behind this kind of botting is? Like, what do they gain from this? I don't understand the point

[okovooo]

What makes you think I'm a bot? At least look at my GitHub history.

[throwwwll]

Karma farming, then influencing the narrative, always has been so. For HN specifically, pushing resume or pushing malware.

[khoury]

Ok makes sense I guess, how does the karma help when they try to push the narrative on things? Isn't the comments still dependent on votes, or do users with higher karma get better visibility in the comments? Seems like a broken system that this is even possible