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I have no doubt it used to work, but if you've ever browsed /popular or /all, it doesn't work any more. Bots farm karma for a few weeks, then hits 30 or 40 different communities with the same crypto spam. The bot gets banned, and another takes it place.
Rarely if ever browsed /r/all, I'm referring more to the niche subs that would get T-shirt spam all the time. Seemed to work well on that for a long time.