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There are bots on HackerNews, 3 kind of them:

- Comments bots (like on other threads), usually to promote a crypto-thing.

- Submissions bots to farm karma (likely one of them here).

- Upvotes bots (taboo).

Recent karma is necessary for upvoting other posts, as there is a system which makes you can't upvote if you didn't get upvoted yourself.

If you can upvote some posts on HackerNews (as it would be on Reddit) you can help people make a lot of money, but again, you need recent karma.




Is that why I see so many comments that are just a paragraph or two pulled directly from TFA with no commentary or even indication that it's a quote?




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