Comments on: Gaming the System with Comments

By: Bloc de blocs - Ús dels blocs en Educació Superior » Comentar, votar o comentar y votar?

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:40:00 +0000

[...] Y un argumento más, sin intención de criticar a estos portales de elección democrática de contenidos, es que también son susceptibles del sabotaje y la manipulación. ACTUALIZADO: Leo en Blog Herald que también los comentarios se pueden comprar, y alterar así discusiones o debates. Según la autora, este sistema se esta popularizando por pereza de los programadores (y quizás también de los usuarios) pues es mas rápido hacer un clic y votar que discutir propuestas en un foro de discusión. [...]

By: Liz Strauss

Liz Strauss — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:49:40 +0000

Hi Rich!
I don’t know if laws are happening, but I sure wish they are. Authenticity is what makes the virtual community worth it’s salt and substance. There were several like HOT1 around when I was blogging Net Neutrality and I eventually just quick accepting their comments.

In some ways, it seems that spammers have more integrity. At least most of them don’t pretend to be what they’re not.

By: Rich DeYoung

Rich DeYoung — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:17:16 +0000

I had a similar experience while blogging about Net Neutrality. A commenter named HOTI (assume “Hands off the Internet”) was leaving canned messages refuting my opinions about reinstating and defending the rules of Net Neutrality. A quick search of Technorati and Google revealed that “HOTI” had been very, very busy across the blogsosphere, dropping the variations of the same canned arguments against Net Neutrality.

This is actually called “Sock Puppeting” in the UK. New laws have been instated that will publicly shame any advertisers for the practice of posing as a satisfied consumer for a particular product. I wonder if the same laws will apply to political action committees?

By: Liz Strauss

Liz Strauss — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:58:34 +0000

You’re right, Chris. There are two sides to everything.

By: Liz Strauss

Liz Strauss — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:56:35 +0000

Hi Mark!
You’re so right. People are stuffing the ballot box so much so that the top reviewers are becoming celebrities in their own right, because we tknow them.
It’s a short-term goal, people will find out a shill in a crowd eventually, no matter how artfully they disguise themselves.

By: Chris Cree

Chris Cree — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:50:32 +0000

Everything good and wonderful has a dark and evil side, it seems.

We live in a twittering, microwave, ATM, instant society. And too many are only out for short term gains without regard to potential long term consequences.

I agree with Mark. Eventually truth will win. Eventually.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:22:19 +0000

This is really a big problem. Also on places like tripadvisor- it’s so hard to know which are genuine reviews. Even offline, airline companies are filling up their own feedback forms. I can’t explain it to you- as I agree, long-term the truth will be out.