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How are you still doubting that this is anything but astroturfing? How can it possibly be true that "only people with a box emoji in their names are real Amazon

by uoaei 6y ago

How are you still doubting that this is anything but astroturfing? How can it possibly be true that "only people with a box emoji in their names are real Amazon employees", and that every single Amazon employee worth trusting has "@AmazonFC*" as their Twitter handle? It is laughably amateurish, it's actually less believable that Amazon management and the union-busters are stupid enough to entrust this to such a sloppy operation.

chrisseaton 6y ago
> How are you still doubting that this is anything but astroturfing? Because the accounts are so obviously fake. It seems like they're designed to be deliberately identifiable as astroturfing, rather than being genuine astroturfing. People are suggesting it's fake-astroturfing, in other words.
- uoaei 6y ago
  Obvious for you: an internet-literate, tech-adjacent, analytical, skeptical type. I appreciate your generous optimism with respect to the intended audience of these messages but I have seen sloppier attempts that have been successful enough to push the needle from one side of the other.
- tablespoon 6y ago
  > Because the accounts are so obviously fake. It seems like they're designed to be deliberately identifiable as astroturfing, rather than being genuine astroturfing. People are suggesting it's fake-astroturfing, in other words. You seem to be proceeding from an axiom that Amazon is always scary competent at everything it does, so you can infer that something that is not scary competent is not from Amazon. I don't think that axiom is true, and Amazon's perfectly capable of doing embarrassingly ham-fisted things. Especially since great success tends to breed hubris and lowered sensitivity to small failures (since your other successes mean you can fuck up and still be fine).
- uvnq 6y ago
  That's what I was thinking too. It could be fake astroturfing. I don't want to rush to conclude anything because I don't know anything for sure, but it definitely is a possibility.

by uoaei 6y ago

chrisseaton 6y ago

> How are you still doubting that this is anything but astroturfing? Because the accounts are so obviously fake. It seems like they're designed to be deliberately identifiable as astroturfing, rather than being genuine astroturfing. People are suggesting it's fake-astroturfing, in other words.

uoaei 6y ago
Obvious for you: an internet-literate, tech-adjacent, analytical, skeptical type. I appreciate your generous optimism with respect to the intended audience of these messages but I have seen sloppier attempts that have been successful enough to push the needle from one side of the other.
tablespoon 6y ago
> Because the accounts are so obviously fake. It seems like they're designed to be deliberately identifiable as astroturfing, rather than being genuine astroturfing. People are suggesting it's fake-astroturfing, in other words. You seem to be proceeding from an axiom that Amazon is always scary competent at everything it does, so you can infer that something that is not scary competent is not from Amazon. I don't think that axiom is true, and Amazon's perfectly capable of doing embarrassingly ham-fisted things. Especially since great success tends to breed hubris and lowered sensitivity to small failures (since your other successes mean you can fuck up and still be fine).
uvnq 6y ago
That's what I was thinking too. It could be fake astroturfing. I don't want to rush to conclude anything because I don't know anything for sure, but it definitely is a possibility.