Haven't had time to contribute to this thread, but +1 for JollyGood for creating it. Also examplens for the investigation bringing public evidence to light.
What is he missing at this point? Plagiarism maybe? After that he got 'em all.
What they are lacking at the moment is that they will no longer be as active in posting on this forum as they used to be. Because they are currently farming on the altcointalk forum and have been the second highest karma recipients in the last two months.
With those farm accounts, they seem to keep sharing regularly because the forum does not show who sent them.
Fyi I did look into this when ThemePen specifically was climbing the ranks, I didn't flag with others as the karma was arriving from a variety of accounts in Urdu section, not just the other multi-accounts. It effectively looked very similar to other local sections where karma is very centralised (nothing wrong with that either, when it's not multi-accounts that is!). So it didn't follow the traditional pattern recognition I'm familiar with for multi-accounts, probably because there were other genuine users who were also distributing karma, so it blended in better. I'm not going to elaborate on what that is as have no intention to give tips to avoid detection here, only that it's clear that some farms think we aren't checking these things. Ayyway overall it was about half farm and half non-farm if not mistaken, or maybe 60/40. The other factor to consider is that users see a mod badge and instinctively give +1, that's probably why you see the gap between ThemePen and CryptoVar no doubt: 108 vs 68.
Either way, from altt perspective, it's near impossible to prove multi-accounts from karma interactions (unless the karma abuse is blatant), but it does contribute towards building a case and starting an investigation. The only exception is when it's negative karma being abused, because smiting sticks out like a sore thumb so is easy to detect. Everyone hates the fact the karma logs are hidden from public, but really, it's regularly been my secret weapon when I'm feeling analytical
