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I'm surprised how many people are willing to dismiss on its face the idea that a tech company doesn't engage in astroturfing despite all evidence to the contrar

by jmyeet 3y ago

I'm surprised how many people are willing to dismiss on its face the idea that a tech company doesn't engage in astroturfing despite all evidence to the contrary (eg Yelp, Glassdoor). I don't know if it is or not but 5 star reviews with one word are suspiciou and the idea is entirely credible.; This is going to continually happen with all UGC sites until the community enjoys collective ownership of the value they're creating. Until then the owners are incentivized to extract as much value as possible from their value-creators.

tayo42 3y ago
wish r/programming was still up, one of the last top posts was someone going through the post of a anti-protest account. one of the accounts recent posts was something along the lines of "Im sorry Im not allowed to generate content like that" in an advice post
- flutas 3y ago
  Found a screenshot of it. https://i.imgur.com/4e9jO7P.jpg https://i.imgur.com/4e9jO7P.jpg User profile in question has since been deleted: https://www.reddit.com/user/Joseph_Harris2 https://www.reddit.com/user/Joseph_Harris2 Archive that includes the comment (can't find an old reddit one though): https://web.archive.org/web/20230611231119/https://www.reddit.com/user/Joseph_Harris2 https://web.archive.org/web/20230611231119/https://www.reddi... The /r/programming thread has other examples of pretty obvious astroturfing: https://web.archive.org/web/20230611210834/https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/146wn9s/meta_who_is_astroturfing_rprogramming_and_why/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230611210834/https://old.reddi...
  - tayo42 3y ago
    Nice! That's the one I was referring to. Pretty wild. Surprised those didn't get more attention
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