As you know, r/CryptoCurrency is now being monetized through moons.

Even tho the mechanic behind the moon attribution seems to be complex, it appears that the r/CryptoCurrency dynamic can be calculated :

The last ratio that I saw was 1 upvote = 8 moons.

And 1 moon = 0.03 $

So we can conclude that 1 upvote = around 24 cents

With the apparition of new platforms allowing us to exchange our moons for real cash (i.g. Kuyumcu), it appears that a real race to farm moons has started.

But, several posts stated that in general, people are more and more reticent to give their upvotes (knowing that their upvote has a value that can give strangers more moons than they currently have).

In parallel, a simple research on google will lead you to tons of services offering you free reddit upvotes (in exchange of a registration, click on a ad etc.). I won’t lie to you and admit that, few years ago, I already used for free such a service to get Facebook upvotes. And it did work very well (1.2K upvotes in 2 hours on one of my post).

Are people able to use those services?

And this hypothesis seems to be comforted by some observations that I had : we can see everyday on reddit posts making it to hot then best in few hours and getting overall more than 1.5k uptvotes.

So I was wondering : are all those upvotes real? How reddit is dealing with those services providing free upvotes?

Thanks for the answer.

TL;DR : 1 upvote = 24 cents. Online services provide free reddit upvotes. How reddit deals with that?