Reddit Vote Manipulation Services are a SCAM?

I created a few posts recently, and gave them a minimal number of votes (like 15-20 per post) over three days.

Reddit banned my 2 year old account for that

So seriously, how do these vote manipulation services even have any active paying users if it's not sustainable to use them?

I would love to use them, but would love to hear from the community!

no , they are legit. It's reddit that detect it and bans your acc?

in warmed up accs it happens less but still, they can detect it from most of the public ones. private farms work best.

how do I ensure that the account seller is doing it through a private farm?

Reddit's algorithm has become way more sophisticated, so even subtle vote manipulation is risky now. Most vote manipulation services might work in the short term but don’t guarantee sustainability, especially on older accounts. The key is blending votes over time with organic activity to make it seem natural. Services claiming to "crack the code" are often hit or miss, some users might find success, but it's definitely not foolproof.

The crazy thing is you can use it as an attack vector to ruin your competition by buying shady upvotes and directing them at your ops.

That depends on the quality of service you're using.

Reddit's algorithm can easily form patterns between accounts based on common activity. Reddit marks such accounts for vote manipulation, and any account getting upvotes by them gets either suspended or permanently banned.

So it's important for the service provider to enrich their account pool with new accounts regularly, warm up the accounts by simulating human-like behavior, and also switch accounts frequently when adding upvotes.

So yes, there are good and bad upvotes.