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comment by lessismore
lessismore  ·  4642 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Buying upvotes with cash on Reddit
It wouldn't matter if the submissions have full wheels. Only those who subscribe to the submitter and sharers will see the post. Unless the poster/sharers have a significant subscriber base, not too many eyes will fall on the article. So if anyone is thinking about monetizing their hubski activities, they must first start by building a huge subscriber base. In order to do that, he/she must contribute quality content. If he/she starts shilling out just for monetary compensation without care for content, subscriber base in theory will go down which makes his shilling less marketable and be worth less to the buyer.




thundara  ·  4642 days ago  ·  link  ·  
That's assuming people only follow users. At the moment, I personally still pay a fair amount of attention to high-rated articles in the tags I follow. Can't speak for other people, though.
lessismore  ·  4642 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Same difference. When you click on a tag, you can easily see the original submitter. If someone is spamming, it will not take long for the person to be ignored and the username will be highlighted as so.