Farming Karma on reddit?

[BakerStreet]

Hey, I need to farm comment karma on reddit. Anyone have a good resource?

 

[ryandiscord]

Crash Course and Bootcamp covers it: https://www.buildersociety.com/threads/creating-compelling-content.415/

This is where people fail - they skip the part where I say I "watched it for MONTHS".

Watching and learning is key. Spend enough time in a subreddit and you can guess what the top comment will be before opening the post, spend enough time on reddit in general and you'll see patterns in these top comments.

Starting small, look for beginner posts on a hobby, they will repeat or rephrase questions that have been asked before and there will always be a common community approved best answer.

Building it up use the top patterns you see and apply them to broad subreddits like pics, memes etc... and rack up upvotes on repeating unoriginal but community approved comments

 

[chubes]

In addition to what @ryandiscord suggests, also - sort by new so you're the first commenter

 

[Jesse]

Crash Course and Bootcamp covers it: https://www.buildersociety.com/threads/creating-compelling-content.415/

Watching and learning is key. Spend enough time in a subreddit and you can guess what the top comment will be before opening the post, spend enough time on reddit in general and you'll see patterns in these top comments.

Starting small, look for beginner posts on a hobby, they will repeat or rephrase questions that have been asked before and there will always be a common community approved best answer.

Building it up use the top patterns you see and apply them to broad subreddits like pics, memes etc... and rack up upvotes on repeating unoriginal but community approved comments

I'll add that you can accelerate this process by using something like the Wayback Machine to see what was on top in previous months/years at different points. This can allow you to study across time without having to wait on time to pass.

Here's the URL to search for to see what were the top posts in the past month on the pics subreddit, for example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/top/?t=month

http://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/top/?t=month

Some people will take this to mean that you simply copy the posts and change the heading, which can work, but actually studying it is something else.

 

[ryandiscord]

I'll add that you can accelerate this process by using something like the Wayback Machine to see what was on top in previous months/years at different points. This can allow you to study across time without having to wait on time to pass.

Yes and you can also sort by "Top" and "All Time" within reddit, doesn't give you as good of a snapshot as when it was popular just be mindful of the post date.

Something else to consider is the subreddits post "flair". Any post tagged meme, joke, humor, etc... it's generally acceptable to post a low effort comment on.

 

[danish14]

This was what I did and it took me only a few minutes and not having to watch and learn the community first.

1. Have two accounts.
2. Go to Twitter and search LinkedIn. There must be a viral post about bizarre LinkedIn behavior
3. Steal it
4. Post on r/LinkedInLunatics using your second account
5. Immediately switch accounts and use your first account to comment on the post

This is what I posted. Easy 239 comment karma for a few minutes work.

u/cureussoul (OP) is my 2nd account. u/danishwritecopy in the comment is my 1st account

 

[ryandiscord]

Nice example!

Immediately switch accounts and use your first account to comment on the post

Now that's a great way to ensure you get that first comment in quick. Could probably go back and upvote it with the other account

 

[BakerStreet]

Nice example!

Now that's a great way to ensure you get that first comment in quick. Could probably go back and upvote it with the other account

I use Up Vote DOT shop to buy upvotes. $0.10 per upvote and you can even set it up so that it automatically upvotes any comment or post you make on a username. If you want karma, set it to do the upvotes right after you post.

My struggle is getting shadowbanned by mods from a human review I tried dropping links in comments that rank for keywords I want traffic from, and that worked great, but after awhile, mods will shadowban me.

I've read that you can't drop links and need to drop brands for them to google, but I'm struggling here too. I see other brands buying agencie services for this and I'm talking to one agency for my day job. Price is $4,000 for 400 brand mention comments! It is supposed to boost branded queries, which should help SEO too. Excited to see how it goes and how I can do it myself for my own site.

My blockers from replicating it is: using VPN IP addresses gets your shadow banned so how do I create a lot of accounts w/o getting banned? I think it is best to leave a few comments from many accounts in case one gets shadowbanned.

any help would be appreciated.

 

[ryandiscord]

Mods might be seeing unusual upvote patterns, they know what resonates and if something that doesn't quite fit into the community mindset has a high volume of upvotes it might seem suspicious.

How many upvotes are you buying per comment? You might be raising suspicion by doing too many, you really only want to boost the comment up to the top so it gets more organic upvotes.

I've read that you can't drop links and need to drop brands for them to google, but I'm struggling here too. I see other brands buying agencie services for this and I'm talking to one agency for my day job. Price is $4,000 for 400 brand mention comments! It is supposed to boost branded queries, which should help SEO too. Excited to see how it goes and how I can do it myself for my own site.

Is this why you're farming karma, to get branded mentions? You can drop links if it's truly helpful, otherwise you'll get called out. Mentioning a brand could increase the organic google searches for your brand terms. If it seems natural then it won't get flagged but if the brand wouldn't fit in the community mindset the moderators would probably catch on to that too. They're not going to care what account did it but flag any post mentioning the brand. Keep in mind moderators in these subreddits typically live and breath the topic and they know what's genuinely popular or not.

Just my general take on this, I think a typical redditor if suspicious will review your post history, maybe a quick glance at karma but I think a moderator will likely review the subject more critically than the account karma history when considering if it should be allowed on the subreddit.

 

[BakerStreet]

Mods might be seeing unusual upvote patterns, they know what resonates and if something that doesn't quite fit into the community mindset has a high volume of upvotes it might seem suspicious.

How many upvotes are you buying per comment? You might be raising suspicion by doing too many, you really only want to boost the comment up to the top so it gets more organic upvotes.



Is this why you're farming karma, to get branded mentions? You can drop links if it's truly helpful, otherwise you'll get called out. Mentioning a brand could increase the organic google searches for your brand terms. If it seems natural then it won't get flagged but if the brand wouldn't fit in the community mindset the moderators would probably catch on to that too. They're not going to care what account did it but flag any post mentioning the brand. Keep in mind moderators in these subreddits typically live and breath the topic and they know what's genuinely popular or not.

Just my general take on this, I think a typical redditor if suspicious will review your post history, maybe a quick glance at karma but I think a moderator will likely review the subject more critically than the account karma history when considering if it should be allowed on the subreddit.

I have competitors buying this service and I see their brand mentions on reddit threads It is working for them and increasing their brand queries. The admins on reddit are complaining about this spam, but they can't differentiate the real brand mentions from the paid ones. The competitors have active subreddits of their own too.

Why is my attempt failing and theirs going fine? IDK. But I'll buy from that guy and see how he does it.

As for comments, I only buy 5-10 so that it gets highlighted. These threads are usually 3 months to 2 years old anyways. surprising that admins catch me there.

 

[ryandiscord]

These threads are usually 3 months to 2 years old anyways. surprising that admins catch me there.

I would think that this is exactly how they're catching you. Are your competitors hitting old posts too? Might make more sense to have the brand mention on a fresher post with more eyes on it

 

[BakerStreet]

I would think that this is exactly how they're catching you. Are your competitors hitting old posts too? Might make more sense to have the brand mention on a fresher post with more eyes on it

but then the traffic will die once the thread dies Targeting posts that rank for keywords has shown that the traffic is steady Hence why I want to target it

 

[ryandiscord]

but then the traffic will die once the thread dies Targeting posts that rank for keywords has shown that the traffic is steady Hence why I want to target it

I see, that's tough because unless the conversation is still active (because it ranks) it will come across as odd to post a random comment on a dead thread. Maybe to fly under the radar ensure that people have still recently commented on it.

 

[tyealia]

I used to do this for some affiliate articles... but you really have to make sure that the article is really good and give some value back.
For my last article, I created a spreadsheet listing the top fifty products, complete with in-depth ratings, rather than just presenting a typical top-three summary. I promoted it using about 40 Reddit likes to make it appear organic among other subreddit posts. This strategy resulted in 4,000 visits in a single day, and the article was never removed.
I used this approach several times over a few months. However, as I started posting lower-quality, more specific affiliate articles, I received backlash from the community. The subreddit admin even threatened to ban me.
To avoid this, it's crucial to maintain high-quality content to prevent negative feedback. Additionally, don't over-post in these groups; keep it reasonable. If the average weekly popular post receives 100 likes, aim for around 50 likes for your affiliate article.

 

[BakerStreet]

@tyealia Making quality posts would help, but I really have a list of like 300 posts to make a comment on.

@ryandiscord Yeah, I think I need to fly under the radar by leaving only 10 or so comments per account before I switch to a new account.

Here's the numbers to let you know why this endeavour is worth it:
1.) I made about 15 posts on reddit and bought about $15 worth of upvotes to make them visible. The posts had hyperlinks to my site.
2.) I got about 250 hits/day from the posts for about 2 weeks before I got shadow banned.
3.) The traffic resulted in $1,500 in contribution margin! Gross sales was $500, but this is a product people return to.

Obviously, if I switch from dropping links to brand mentions, traffic would go down, but it is still exciting to test.

Here's my plan:

1. Figure out a way to rotate residential proxies. Datacenter proxies are auto-ban on Reddit I found out.
2. Once #1 is solved, figure out a way to create accounts.
3. Make 10 or so comments per account and buy upvotes for them.

I already know that you can just buy a list of Gmail accounts and use that to register for Reddit. Seems simple enough.