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Only 37 years old when he died and having only sold one painting, van Gogh sadly did not live long enough to see the extent of his legacy – which includes his works now being some of the most expensive in the world.


Is this a karma farming bot? New account, comment is copy pasted from a blog [1] which otherwise only appear on .ru domain malware sites [2]

1, https://www.aruma.com.au/about-us/blog/8-fascinating-facts-a...

2, https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Only+37+years+old+when+he...

My guess, either farming karma so they can later sell the account or they can use it when people are buying upvotes


Does karma matter enough on HN to want to farm it?


It matters if you want to build a downvote farm of bots to manipulate the frontpage or order/visibility of comments.




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