How to quickly rack up karma on a Reddit account

I started experimenting with something very similar to this about a month ago when I saw people selling high karma Reddit accounts & I wanted to request a subreddit and needed to boost my Karma. I figured there must be some way to exploit / automate the process.

For links/images/ideas, I started running some queries for site:reddit.com/r/Topic and filter results from 2010-2014 (hide your re-posting ass), look for something 'timeless' (no news stories), and then re-post with a different title. Can be fun practice finding out what types of titles work well on Reddit. Of course, you can also just launder news from another social site to Reddit.

According to some people, commenting is technically 'harder.' Its more difficult to game Redditors with automated or unoriginal or spammy comments. In case anyone hadn't already figured this out, the kind Mods at AskReddit decided to alert every spammer on the internet:

As an alternative, it also works to just post pictures of frogs to the_donald all day

Post hot girls

I never got reddit karma terrible at it

I've mainly built up my Reddit karma by leaking my own website and then posting relevant links to other websites in my niche.

Got over 20k+

Imo link karma doesn't matter much until you get caught spamming

My main account has 10k link and 25k comment karma, but I always make a new account for the niche I am in and slowly build it over the first 90 days. Also helps if you know what the market or audience likes.

Another easy way is creating good gifs and posting to /r/HighQualityGifs or /r/ReactionGifs, that is how I learned how to use Motion, FCP, Adobe Suite and video editing in general. Easy karma too

Nat said:

AskReddit has a problem with 'sock puppet' accounts. These are accounts which post content for karma. I can hear you thinking "But I post content for karma!" Don't worry! Sock puppets only post stolen content. They find similar threads from the past or other sites and post it. And that's all they do. When the account gains enough karma it'll be used for spam or sold for spam purposes. We don't like these accounts but they're quite hard to deal with as they're not actually spamming yet.
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So...you're saying they check each piece of content posted on Reddit to see if it's dupe content from either a past thread on Reddit or another site? And then if it is...and you do this multiple times, the account is flagged and put on a watch list?

finnegan said:

So...you're saying they check each piece of content posted on Reddit to see if it's dupe content from either a past thread on Reddit or another site? And then if it is...and you do this multiple times, the account is flagged and put on a watch list?

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I mean, I was just quoting what they said. I really don't think they check every comment against previous threads, I assume they caught on to accounts doing this. I suspect that a duplicate comment that is over 140 characters is much more indicative of a bot/automation/sockpuppet than a repost. Anyways, it wouldn't be hard to modify a comment to make it unique.

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We don't like these accounts but they're quite hard to deal with as they're not actually spamming yet.

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= basically means they have no idea