a few more down this morning.
@cheeseweasel 454401 wrote:
So what’s the deal with all these fake people posting health/fashion advice on here lately? I can understand the ones that are a thinly-veiled attempt at market-research or selling things, but who goes to the effort to create bots that post lifestyle advice?
Are there such things as ‘propaganda bots’ that automatically post government propaganda on forums? Is that why most of them are written as though they’ve been translated from Chinese?
yes – this does go on and there is automated software used but both govts and marketers in Asia use real people to generate the messages, usually students who get paid a small amount for doing this. But for Govt stuff they would use their native languages, but there isn’t much sense in state governments trying to encourage Westerners to eat more fruit and veg, when in many cases there are already perfectly legitimate trade routes for these items.
The variety of countries targeting this thread is a bit odd. The only common factors are they are Asian, most are young, about our age group too and the ones here obviously have some command of English.
At the time of posting this it would be lunchtime at both universities and call centres across Asia.
Sadly I see a much bleaker scenario here. not some bizzare govt conspiracy but young people themselves trying to find customers for things like fake goods, multi-species diet pills (I kid you not!) or to spread links perhaps leading to malware, and have somehow got it into their heads not just that “Westerners are rich, decadent and good targets for scams, poor quality goods and even dangerous/illegal products” but also by behaving like a stereotypical Asian character what might have hung around with “hippies” out of the sort of 1970s era sitcom now banned from our telly as racist, that due to the friendly multicultural nature of this forum, we will trust them enough and overlook their posts until they can send the main link.
Other sites just block entire countries out from access.
