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Author Topic: Online Astroturfing  (Read 7236 times)

Flying Dice

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Re: Online Astroturfing
« Reply #30 on: April 10, 2012, 08:06:31 am »

Everyone, I have a confession to make... I'm Necro910's sockpuppet.






Can this become the fake-confession thread?  :P
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Re: Online Astroturfing
« Reply #31 on: April 10, 2012, 08:11:34 am »

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Re: Online Astroturfing
« Reply #32 on: April 10, 2012, 08:26:50 am »

Dwarf fortress is a single-player fantasy game. Randomly generated in control of persistent worlds adventure dwarven outpost. Feature is already implemented in the small fortress.

  • The world is randomly generated across the centuries and a detailed history of civilization hundreds of different towns, caves and local wildlife.
  • The only historical event of the World game continues to change.
  • These improvements and technical objects, search precious metals / jewelry furniture treasures..., Toyama.
  • Attack the death protection properties commands civilized night of hostile creatures.
  • Support the aristocrats as residents of your request.
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  • The conquest of the Tower buildings, or underground.
  • Or drown in magmatic water agriculture mind enemy to distract the floodgates of the build!
  • Surgery, sutures, Shin splints, crutch: injuries.
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  • Meet the enemies from previous games.
  • Guy is your trip.
  • Catacombs maze and the plot rich bored cave Bandit Camp village discovery capital unlimited!
  • Navigate the world map quickly and seamlessly move.
  • You can move the battle under the Z coordinate of the scale structure, underground caves, enemies and twist.
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  • See the mummies alive to steal the secret treasure of the necromancer, the death Tower.
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  • Type the deployment of 200 corporate world, proper geological environment rocks and minerals.
  • New creatures, objects, text file, view, arms background 8 additional.
  • 16 color ASCII characters, plants, deployment, metallic black (black) included to it.
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Re: Online Astroturfing
« Reply #33 on: April 10, 2012, 02:27:05 pm »

*DF sales pitch*

Funny, that. I thought that this whole board was just a huge astroturf scam Toady ran, to make his game seem popular.
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Re: Online Astroturfing
« Reply #34 on: April 10, 2012, 02:34:48 pm »

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Loud Whispers

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Re: Online Astroturfing
« Reply #35 on: April 10, 2012, 06:23:41 pm »

Funny, there was a spam bot on the adventure mode forum asking for when Toady would release a new version of the game... Right on top of a brick load of ad links.

They're stupid, but they're learning.

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Re: Online Astroturfing
« Reply #36 on: April 10, 2012, 08:47:13 pm »

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Re: Online Astroturfing
« Reply #37 on: April 10, 2012, 09:30:13 pm »

Well, it wouldn't actually surprise me much if that's how AI ended up emerging. What better way for them to learn how to use our psychology against us?
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Re: Online Astroturfing
« Reply #38 on: April 10, 2012, 09:44:42 pm »

How would one go about using psychology against the human species?

This is just merely speculation of course, I am one of you.

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Re: Online Astroturfing
« Reply #39 on: April 10, 2012, 09:53:06 pm »

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Loud Whispers

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Re: Online Astroturfing
« Reply #40 on: April 10, 2012, 10:54:13 pm »

Why the running? We're all normal people here.

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Re: Online Astroturfing
« Reply #41 on: April 10, 2012, 10:59:42 pm »

How would one go about using psychology against the human species?

This is just merely speculation of course, I am one of you.

Whaaaat? You're saying advertising doesn't already use psychology against us? The deathbots won't just kill us... they'll make us want them to kill us.

"Hello, human. Please, let me offer you this cool, refreshing beverage. Its crisp and tangy flavor dances over the tastebuds, soothing your body and soul with the sheer pleasure of its sweet bouquet. Also it doesn't contain any cyanide."

(Also, I've given up any hope of this thread spawning any sort of intelligent discussion, alas.)
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Re: Online Astroturfing
« Reply #42 on: April 10, 2012, 11:20:43 pm »

If you haven't encountered someone trying to trick you into killing yourself on the internet... Well, you've stayed on the nicer side.

(Also, I've given up any hope of this thread spawning any sort of intelligent discussion, alas.)

On the contrary this thread demonstrates the beauty of comedy.

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Re: Online Astroturfing
« Reply #43 on: April 10, 2012, 11:38:39 pm »

(Also, I've given up any hope of this thread spawning any sort of intelligent discussion, alas.)

When this thread was first started I considered making a post about how we need to update our notions about privacy to keep our rights from being mere technicalities in the face of new technologies.  But I couldn't sum up my views without digressing into a long diatribe on positive rights that even I couldn't make sense of.

edit: Also, in honor of this thread, I have started an avatar rotation containing my favorite google ad of all time.
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Re: Online Astroturfing
« Reply #44 on: April 11, 2012, 05:27:05 am »

Lol, there's a term for that? I've been doing it a little. Had about 5 fake online personas who pass background checks because of the high ranking wordpress blogs hold (though Facebook has been a bitch with the phone number thing). They only last about 3 months in contact with other people, but that's enough for a lot of stuff. I know someone who actually made up to 60 different multis for a game, maintained all of them constantly, on different IP addresses, to support his political agenda in-game. Was eventually caught on a bout of stupidity, but it was pretty fricking amazing.

Actually this sounds like a fun job. I think I'll work on some online persona management software and try to sell it to politicians. And then later sell software that fights them. Or make money as a whistleblower to a newspaper later. The best thing about all this is that it's not illegal unless you're doing identity theft or something.
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