I did a search for a user with the avatar farmersson63, because I had seen him trash so many environmentalists and anti monsanto posts with forceful, but flawed logic. Watch for the exaggerations. If someone says “sometimes this happens” he will say you’re an idiot for saying “this always happens” :-)
The Farmersson63 avitar is probably a paid Monsanto employee. He has over 2000 comments on news stories. I have less than 300 posts on this entire blog. How many of you have over 10 or 100? He is probably paid to go around trashing people that write anti Monsanto articles. He focuses on anti Monsanto news stories. It’s possible that he has multiple avatars to make it look as though others agree with him. Farmersson63 has a tendency towards a particular grammar bug that at least two other avatars also tend to use. Now it may just be that they know each other but… And why should I tell him what I noticed and let him fix it? :-).
Or he might even have one of his avatars post _for the article_, and use terrible grammar, and spelling in the post, so that the (fake) person appears backward and stupid. Then he posts back with one of his other avatars belittling the intelligence of the first post.
Think about it!!! If the first comments appear stupid and ignorant but they agree with the article then the article itself must also be stupid right :-)
Pepsi or coke or both used to put subliminal messages in movies. Have all the big companies gotten more stupid over the years?
And it got me thinking about an incident with Hewlett Packard printers 20 or so years ago.
The internet was almost non-existent but there were a few newsgroups that you could post questions on and potentially get help. — At 9600 baud :-)
I had a Hewlett Packard printer that would fairly regularly jam and after looking at it I was reasonably sure that it was the printer but I didn’t know if anything could be done about it. So I found a newsgroup that was about hewlett-packard printers and posted a question as to why my paper kept jamming. I had bought reasonably good paper not the most expensive but certainly not the cheapest and it would often jam after about 10 sheets or so. Well one of the users immediately responded with a fairly long, fairly logical, fairly detailed post that I wasn’t using quality paper. And that I should get better paper.
I started thinking about it, made a guess, and responded with that he was probably a hewlett-packard employee paid to muddy the waters and that since he knew so much about the paper being _the_ problem he certainly must know at least one or two _specific brands_ that caused this. And that I would be happy to know what those were so that the paper manufacturers could sue hewlett-packard and him. Wink
He ( I say “he” but it certainly could have been a woman vice president with a male avatar) had posted hundreds of posts, several a day for several _years_ and never posted under that name again as far as I could tell months later. Though I’m sure it just changed names. But the point is: do you really think that the big companies have gotten any dumber in the last 20 years? And today they realize that they don’t need to change avatar names. It would be impossible to pin them down legally.
Big companies have advertising budgets in the hundreds of millions. Do you really think it is much of an effort to pay somebody to continually monitor for online stories and then quickly post crafted responses.
And
where
is the money
for the other side?
Bob