He used to be hostmaster@cam.ac.uk, amongst other things. Why he’s farming internet points on HN I’ve no idea!

I’ve got a lot of good stuff in my link log https://dotat.at/:/ so I thought it might be fun to share a few retro classics. There has been some good discussion, so it seems to be worth it.

- 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.