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As a related data point, I had a post go viral today on Google+ (~500 +1s, 100 shares) [1] and after about an hour, the most inane comments started piling on.
by mmahemoff 14y ago
As a related data point, I had a post go viral today on Google+ (~500 +1s, 100 shares) [1] and after about an hour, the most inane comments started piling on.
"hello"
"hi friendz"
"hi"
"Every one how is the day?"
"What's the topic for today, can any one tell me? Please!"
etc etc
I can explain the timing. It presumably hit "What's Hot" so they all saw it. But like OP, I don't know what to make of it. Maybe one of the OP's theories, maybe all of them.
1. https://plus.google.com/106413090159067280619/posts/ZFTKZQfjUDH https://plus.google.com/106413090159067280619/posts/ZFTKZQfj...
- chucknthem 14y agoThese comments doesn't make sense for spam (unless their account links to a lot of spam?) I wonder if it's non-english speakers trying to practice their english.
- saber_taylor 14y agoWithout squinting too closely, I think it's this one. I get these on Livejournal and have seen them around the 'net. There's generic content that may apply to any possible post, and then the incentive is the PageRank that flows back from the username link. An improvement even would be to have a bot generate text based on the post, and then have paid humans deal with the captchas. </evilhat>
- EGreg 14y agoI thought username links were nofollow?
- kgarten 14y agohhmmm ... not sure, seems they are really bad in English (e.g. "JuuuuubtghyAujkykkik"). Some are obvious spam or I guess she just want's to meet guys: "meet me at fb gyz... ankit050@yahoo.com" ;)
- nalbyuites 14y agoA bit off-topic but Ankit is a boy's name in India. And yes, that's how many communicate, often using teenage girl lingo.
- omarchowdhury 14y agoIsn't it obvious? They're responding to the Hello World.
- mmahemoff 14y agoYes, I think you're right. Still inane but that explains most of the comments I listed here.
- CamperBob2 14y agoNo, there are way too many of those weird comments for that. Someone is DoS'ing G+ comment threads, methinks.
- marblar 14y ago"Ok yolo"