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What is the primary point(s) of building bots that do this kind of thing, that seemingly flood the internet with its own Great Internet Garbage Patch?
by ddoolin 2y ago
What is the primary point(s) of building bots that do this kind of thing, that seemingly flood the internet with its own Great Internet Garbage Patch?
- corytheboyd 2y agoIt is always money. You can sell “I will get your launch to top 10 in ProductHunt.” Yes if/when taken too far, everyone will ditch ProductHunt and it will die, but until then, a quick buck can be made.
- metalliqaz 2y agoby the looks of the graphs in the linked article, it appears ProductHunt is already a zombie
- criddell 2y agoIt isn't always money. Sometimes it's just lulz. Reply All had did a podcast (ep #178) about people who are running bots on Counter-Strike that ruin the game. They tracked down a person who does this and they just basically do it to be annoying. > [... ]what’s the point of running them? Like, what do you get out of the exercise? > There are many reasons to run them. Most if not [all] casual players dislike bots (which is a reason to run them)
- datadrivenangel 2y agoExisting businesses did this with live humans. Ranking/review sites for B2B services would work with paying customers to solicit interviews and reviews from their customers, and of course only the 5 star reviews get posted. Heck, a lot of these "bots" may actually be a real human working a table of 100 cell phones in some cheaper country.
- intended 2y agoWhy not do it? It’s essentially spam / pollution, and there are no consequences.