Within the course of seven months, Reddit user Scopolamina went from relative newbie to 2012’s top ranked user on the social news site, amassing an unheard of 1.87 million karma points, the Reddit currency that marks the success and popularity of a particular user. During that span of time, he also submitted well over 37,000 posts, moderated about 300 subreddits (most NSFW), and has personally been responsible for removing countless incidents of spam on the site.

Then, in mid-January, as seems to happen with increasing frequency to top Reddit users, he was unceremoniously banned from the site, following allegations of selling his influence to spammers. Joining us to talk about that incident, his experience as Reddit’s top user, and his insider secrets to becoming a top user, is Reddit user Scopolamina…

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A Few Tips from Reddit’s Top User

• To view all of the Imgur links on a particular subreddit, go to http://www.imgur.com/r/name of subreddit
• Remove the limits on your postings. Reddit imposes a limit to postings for new users (Latency). By submitting posts that will gain about 100 karma points in a particular subreddit, latency limits will be removed in that subreddit.
• Ask the subreddit moderator to make you an approved submitter. This removes latency and reduces the chance that your posts will be flagged as spam.
• Ask a current moderator to make you a moderator of a subreddit. You can achieve this by building a reputation as a consistent contributor of quality content.

Audible Book of the Week

• Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match by Amy Webb

Musical Interlude: American Bad Ass by Kid Rock

Show Links

• The 10 most influential people on Reddit in 2012
• Meet Scopolamina, Reddit’s new porn king
• Top Reddit porn moderators banned for alleged bribes

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.