<human>: Yesterday there was a meme on Reddit saying "If you ask nicely for an upvote, I will give you an upvote". It was a pretty simple concept and I wondered to myself if it would actually work. I've only been a redditor for 6 months and we all observe how most redditors get their karma. I did exactly what the meme I read told me to do, I asked for karma. I used Christmas sympathy and Puss in Boot (He's adorable, how could they resist!?!). I honestly thought I was going to get downvoted to hell and disowned.  I received  5330 upvotes with 5064 downvotes. Not bad. At one point I was at 400 upvotes. However, I was verbally abused by the majority via comment. Any positive feedback I was given via comment was downvoted to hell, so they would learn their lesson not to approve of this behavior. I was disappointed about that, so everyone that gave me a positive comment, I also gave them upvotes on their previous posts to return the favor.

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<bot>: I did a social experiment on karma whoring, by asking nicely for karma for Christmas. I currently have 271 upvotes because of it, it was a success. I received a lot of negative comments.