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khalleron · 08-09-2011, 07:17 PM

I got jumped on for bringing this up in another thread, but I've been noticing the past two or three months that a small but sizeable group of newbies, many sporting less than 100 (some less than 50) posts have karma over 100,000.

I'm also noticing that some of them have *exactly* 100,000 or 125,000 - something I've never seen in my two years of posting here.

Since some of these are obvious trolls (they do nothing but snipe at the regulars), I'm suspecting sock-puppeting, or worse.

Even some of the most helpful posters here don't have that amount of karma.

I'm mathematically inclined - I notice the rate that karma normally 'accretes' - there's something funny going on here.

08-09-2011, 07:17 PM	#1
khalleron Kate Posts: 1,700 Karma: 3605799 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Oregon, United States Device: MeeBook, Kobo Libra Colour	Why so many newbies with so much karma? I got jumped on for bringing this up in another thread, but I've been noticing the past two or three months that a small but sizeable group of newbies, many sporting less than 100 (some less than 50) posts have karma over 100,000. I'm also noticing that some of them have exactly 100,000 or 125,000 - something I've never seen in my two years of posting here. Since some of these are obvious trolls (they do nothing but snipe at the regulars), I'm suspecting sock-puppeting, or worse. Even some of the most helpful posters here don't have that amount of karma. I'm mathematically inclined - I notice the rate that karma normally 'accretes' - there's something funny going on here.