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Interesting.

Incidentally, how much do they pay for a HN account that is a few years old and accumulated a few thousand Internet points?

Asking for a friend.

They are very valuable. Just a few of them can put a link on the HN front page. Upvote a certain viewpoint. Or bury any post they want gone.

Yup, reddit is awash in established accounts that suddenly start spamming. Whole pools of them working to the same goal at times.

I receive multiple offers a year to participate in spam rings with the 20 year old high-karma reddit account. I usually just ignore them or report them. I could be making so much money /s

So far it hasn't happed here, but we'll see!

Yep. Like I said elsewhere on the thread, some of them already have enough karma to downvote.