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I opened 3 of the comments at random and they were all word-for-word identical.

by cgy1 8y ago

cgy1 8y ago
Now up to 10 comments and still they are all identical.
- sbuttgereit 8y ago
  Yep. Looks like a coordinated campaign... maybe involving one of those forms you click on that dumps boilerplate into an email so the commentator can be as passive as possible.
  - perpetualpatzer 8y ago
    Looks like it may have been from the EFF based on this comment: https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/eligiblity2019comments_f_Dobkin_2019feb08.pdf https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/eligibli...
    - sbuttgereit 8y ago
      Yep... here is it... https://act.eff.org/action/save-alice-tell-the-patent-office-to-apply-supreme-court-law https://act.eff.org/action/save-alice-tell-the-patent-office...
SneakyMission 8y ago
Those are from a call to action campaign from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. https://act.eff.org/action/save-alice-tell-the-patent-office-to-apply-supreme-court-law https://act.eff.org/action/save-alice-tell-the-patent-office...
- tptacek 8y ago
  Is there any point to these campaigns? It's not a vote, right? The idea is that they're supposed to collect diverse arguments and get as many informed perspectives as they can. "Lots of people pushed a button to post this comment" is not going to be a very powerful perspective.
  - howard941 8y ago
    Sheer volume is worth something. Perhaps only a little after the fiasco at the FCC with the forged net neutrality comments.
    - tptacek 8y ago
      Isn't the FCC process actually explicit about the fact that number-of-votes isn't a factor? I don't know where I read this, but I feel like I read something about the regulatory feedback process and thought to myself "this is exactly how AfD at Wikipedia work" (where voting is also useless and actually counterproductive).
      - howard941 8y ago
        If volume isn't expressly ruled out as a factor it probably ought to be.
      - slavik81 8y ago
        For the unfamiliar, AfD is "Articles for Deletion"
  - NikkiA 8y ago
    Copy&Paste 'comments' on something like this just get binned anyway, same as when the FCC opened comments on the net neutrality issue.

I opened 3 of the comments at random and they were all word-for-word identical.

by cgy1 8y ago

I opened 3 of the comments at random and they were all word-for-word identical.

cgy1 8y ago

Now up to 10 comments and still they are all identical.

sbuttgereit 8y ago
Yep. Looks like a coordinated campaign... maybe involving one of those forms you click on that dumps boilerplate into an email so the commentator can be as passive as possible.
- perpetualpatzer 8y ago
  Looks like it may have been from the EFF based on this comment: https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/eligiblity2019comments_f_Dobkin_2019feb08.pdf https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/eligibli...
  - sbuttgereit 8y ago
    Yep... here is it... https://act.eff.org/action/save-alice-tell-the-patent-office-to-apply-supreme-court-law https://act.eff.org/action/save-alice-tell-the-patent-office...

SneakyMission 8y ago

Those are from a call to action campaign from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. https://act.eff.org/action/save-alice-tell-the-patent-office-to-apply-supreme-court-law https://act.eff.org/action/save-alice-tell-the-patent-office...

tptacek 8y ago
Is there any point to these campaigns? It's not a vote, right? The idea is that they're supposed to collect diverse arguments and get as many informed perspectives as they can. "Lots of people pushed a button to post this comment" is not going to be a very powerful perspective.
- howard941 8y ago
  Sheer volume is worth something. Perhaps only a little after the fiasco at the FCC with the forged net neutrality comments.
  - tptacek 8y ago
    Isn't the FCC process actually explicit about the fact that number-of-votes isn't a factor? I don't know where I read this, but I feel like I read something about the regulatory feedback process and thought to myself "this is exactly how AfD at Wikipedia work" (where voting is also useless and actually counterproductive).
    - howard941 8y ago
      If volume isn't expressly ruled out as a factor it probably ought to be.
    - slavik81 8y ago
      For the unfamiliar, AfD is "Articles for Deletion"
- NikkiA 8y ago
  Copy&Paste 'comments' on something like this just get binned anyway, same as when the FCC opened comments on the net neutrality issue.