For example, people on Reddit asking redundant questions and give equally redundant or unhelpful answers.

Whenever every ‘What’s the worst show you’ve seen?’ is asked, you’ll get 10,000 “Kardashians” answers, which is just easy karma farming.

If someone posts in a community that’s geared for something like opinions, but someone elects to just go on a full scale rant instead.

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Reposting.

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There’s two kinds of resposting:

“honest” resposting that happens when the OP hasn’t seen his submission previously posted.

karma-whore resposting that happens when someone wants to get those sweet internet points.

Without karma the second one may not be a problem at all ¯\(ツ)

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I’ve gotten pegged by people when I reposted something I knew very well, hadn’t been posted within a year’s timeframe. Like, what’s the problem with that? It hasn’t been seen in so long so yeah it’ll be reposted.

Unlike with your second scenario, I’ve seen posts crop up within the same day and they’re all gratified and praised like as if people hadn’t seen them before when their short attention spans fail to tell them that they did see it before very recently.

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Could’ve been different people. This happened all the time with me seeing something for the first time in my life, while comments were full of complaints of it being reposted once a week.

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Karma-whoring is especially bad when it’s just all bots doing it. There were many instances where even comments on karma posts were bot generated. Upvotes were much likely bot generated too.

Destroys the human element.

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Reposting

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Have an upvote and absolutely meaningless award in form of an icon that I need to pay for first. Kind sir.

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Low-effort repetitive comment chains too, preferably.

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Long comment chains of song lyrics where each comment adds another line. They can fuck right off.

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This

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Especially the ones where they put in juuuuuust enough effort to make it less funny.

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I do enjoy a good pun thread, though.

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Slightly altering a repost to make it seem new

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Making same joke but worse

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