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Comment author: Lumifer 07 June 2014 12:35:48AM 2 points [-]

You could potentially use sockpuppets to vote more than once on someone's posts, if you feel so inclined, but all your socks would individually have to be productive contributors in good standing

Sockpuppets boost one another. If you have, say, five sockpuppets, each post by one of them immediately gets +4 karma.

Comment author: Nornagest 07 June 2014 05:50:42AM 3 points [-]

That'd work, but I feel voting your own stuff up, especially in a systematic way across several accounts, is much more clearly a violation of community fair-play norms than systematic downvoting or running sockpuppets is.

It's also pretty easily detectable.

Comment author: Lumifer 08 June 2014 01:08:17AM 5 points [-]

Once you spin up a few sock puppets for karma manipulation, I don't think the community fair-play norms bind you much.

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