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		JasonFruit on March 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git I looked at a couple comments. They are in fact copying Reddit comments to HN, and it seems to have been a mildly successful strategy for... what exactly I'm not sure.

codetrotter on March 30, 2023 [–]

> a mildly successful strategy for... what exactly I'm not sure.

Karma farming probably. Which in turn is useful in order to have a bunch of legitimate-looking accounts engage in paid upvotes.

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