It's been that way for a while, 50% of the sub is lazy /r/politics reposts while the other half is usually pretty funny memes. I think it's the only sub regularly featuring democrat fundamentalism that I haven't blocked outright, I just block individual posters and that seems to be doing the trick for now, but it's clearly been targeted as a "problem" sub so the writing is likely on the wall.
A while back there was that trannyjanny powermod that was exposed as a pedo and he got told to at least make a new account so he can't be traced. They discussed karma farming strats in there. So mods already know about easy pathways to farm karma, cant be assed to look in this thread for it.
I noticed updoots and content can be quite far apart. The average upvoted is not the same as the average commenter. Way back I would go to EU4 sub, you have rule 5, you have to post an explanation of what your picture is about (to avoid people posting a picture with no context and leaving everyone confused). You had a bunch of very samey pictures (a loading screen showing napoleon, with a hint below it telling you to limit your conquests to avoid coalitions) that woudl get a lot of upvotes, but then the R5 comment would be downvoted. So casual browsers upvoted it, but users that opened the post would downvote it since it was posted all the time.View attachment 8992545but the post itself will also be downvoted in oblivion for some reason. I dont remember the last time I saw a post asking for hobby-related advice that wasnt sitting at 0even with having 50 comments, and the post and the replies themselves are usually completely normal...
For trolling purposes and/or needing hyper specific knowledge.
Thanks to how the internet has trended over the last 20 years, it's become one of the only places to discuss specific interests or hobbies.
Reddit's only good purpose nowedays is to give you a solution to a hyperspecific problem. The rest is just botted insanity.