Internet 'astroturfing'

Post by **faceless** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:09 pm

[web]https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/g ... troturfing[/web]

Interesting

dmrtn · Post by **dmrtn** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:56 am

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

SquareEyes · Post by **SquareEyes** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:47 pm

How many people are real here? Come on. Don't be shy. Hold up your power cable if you are real.

Post by **faceless** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:29 pm

If I allowed all the spambots whch tried to get in here to have access, there would be hundreds of them posting inane crap all the time. I've been caught out once or twice, but all you need to prevent against it is common-sense really.

I'd never validate a new account based on facebook or twitter membership - unless that was just part of the package. The best way to be sure is to not allow free online email accounts to be used.

Heer's an example from today. A new account was created with the user name 'xyperm' - that name is incongruous enough as it is, but doing a simple google-search of the term brought this page up as the first result. CLICK. One post on that forum and it's directed spam which almost appears to make sense, but it's a load of crap!

SquareEyes · Post by **SquareEyes** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 6:03 pm

faceless wrote:there would be hundreds of them posting inane crap all the time

OK. It's a fair cop. I post crap.

gordonrussell · Post by **gordonrussell** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:31 am

The filth have possibly manipulated every revolution in history and so we should expect such from the contemporary filth .
I remember the news reports during the Irananian Revolution in the late 70's of how crowds were tearing apart some who claimed to be mullahs but could not even assemble the turban on their head properly. It probably put the willies up the then filth and tricks like astroturfing probably seem a mild palliative to them.

Don't let the internet become bedlam