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This would be an effective way to tarnish the reputation of a competitor.
by palish 18y ago
This would be an effective way to tarnish the reputation of a competitor.
- barrkel 18y agoI presume you mean: enter a job in mechanical turk to praise one's competitor's target, and then tip off a journalist? Because otherwise, it's just dumb.
- vaksel 18y agomore like use Mechanical Turk to have 100 people leave negative comments on competitor product
- mattmaroon 18y agoThat seems far more effective, since the vast majority of router buyers don't read any publication in which this story would run.
- eru 18y agoHow about doing both? Hire 70 to write negative reviews, and 30 for positive. Tip off about the positive ones.
- Shamiq 18y agoClever thinking -- that's just evil.
- mattmaroon 18y agoThat is a great idea. I'd try to get the negatives from some source other than Turk though, so they couldn't be found by someone searching for info about the positives.
- lallysingh 18y agoYou're hired. Any relation to this fellow? http://xkcd.com/125/ http://xkcd.com/125/ Just remember to use different accounts & language between the negative & positive reviews. Either way, be really careful to anonymize your tipoff, in case it backfires.
- eru 18y agoNo relation. Just years of playing Diplomacy.
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- jjs 18y agoWhy, palish, I recall a thread from yesterday in which you complained that you lacked the stuff to be a genius. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436390 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436390 I demand you recant, you evil genius, you. ;-)