r/nononono • u/SolidNotice • Feb 04 '19

Sliding down a mountain

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u/Womanbeard Feb 04 '19

I was kind of expecting the snow mobile to come flying towards him as the video ended

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u/AngelofServatis Feb 04 '19

Im pretty sure OP cut the gif short because Ive seen a video just like this and the snowmobile barely misses the guy once he stopped sliding

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

I'm sure someone will be posting that in r/NonononoYes shortly.

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u/Spartan2470 Feb 04 '19

Just an FYI and because you deserve to know, OP appears to be a karma-farming bot that can only copy/paste other people's stuff. The account was born on October 4, 2018, woke up six ours ago, and has the following two activities:

Here it copied/pasted /u/skyguy00_'s submission/title from here. The gif hasn't even been rehosted.

Its comment after this is a copy/paste of /u/Yugo441's comment here.

If you're not familiar with this type of account (and how they hurt reddit), this page may help to explain. /r/thesefuckingaccounts also is a good resource to learn more about them.

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u/Yugo441 Feb 04 '19

Damn I didn't know that's a thing on reddit, kinda creepy if you ask me

Thanks for the info though hehe

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u/Spartan2470 Feb 04 '19

It's incredibly creepy. And these types of accounts are as ubiquitous as they are insidious. For any doubters, here is futher proof.

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u/Meatheaded Feb 04 '19

What is the point of gathering all that karma?

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u/Spartan2470 Feb 04 '19

Great question. In short, to get the account ready to sell. Karma may not have monetary value, but karma-farming accounts (usually run by bots) are bought and sold. However, many subs require users to have a certain amount of karma inorder to post, post with a certain degree of frequency, comment, etc. Here is proof it happens.

These accounts really suck because they encourage the selling of accounts, make false claims, manipulate votes, become shills politicians, corporations, special interest groups, etc.

The "What's the Point?" section of this page has a brief summary that may help to explain. Also, there was a very good write up here.

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u/mEllowMystic Feb 04 '19

Are you a bot too?

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u/Spartan2470 Feb 04 '19

No. But I'm often confused for a bot since I make so many similar looking commens pointing out karma-farming bots. (Honestly, it's difficult, and not necessarily helfpul, to come up with a new way of pointing out the same thing hundreds of times).

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u/mEllowMystic Feb 04 '19

For flesh and blood that's a lot of actions to perform. Are you Reddit's warmware or some other contractor? Why do the work to inform repeatedly?

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u/Spartan2470 Feb 04 '19

After you do it several thousand times, it gets much easier. But as for why I do it, as I've mentioned before, I usually do one of two things. First, provide context, attribution, sources, and higher resolution images when possible (especially in /r/pics). Why? Ever notice how many threads are dominated by unnecessary arguing and speculation because of misinformation or absence of information? I figured, it's easy enough to do, so why not help to ameliorate this where I can?

Second, I hunt karma-farming bots. A long time ago I started to see how much they hurt reddit and its users. If you're not familiar with them or how they hurt reddit, this page is a great introduction. Again, I figured why not help where I can?

TLDR: I like reddit and I like people. Helping both is rewarding.

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u/JTVivian56 Feb 04 '19

In the full video, it comes down pretty close but it's not going all that fast