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• October 08, 2010
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  Reddit hacking for votes and profit

  Posted: October 8th, 2010, 1:34pm PDT by Mike Szczys

  Tags:  looks profit reddit hack scripts game misc hacks  

  Looks like someone figured out how to game the Reddit system. This probably has been done before, but as far as we know nobody’s actually shared the methods in detail. [Esrun] wrote some scripts that allow him to register multiple accounts and use them to up-vote stories. The hack goes something like this. A script [...]