Astroturfing w/false or negative info

Discussion in 'iPhone' started by dustinl4m3, Aug 17, 2010.

  1. dustinl4m3 macrumors regular

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    I suspect that there is considerable astroturfing going on in these forums right now.

    Deliberately false and negatively biased info is being posted by several users that have just registered for the forum. The tone, tactics, and and matter-of-factness that pervades these posts makes them very suspect.

    Quick examples:

    Do I need to close apps

    Apple's iPhone 4 is trouncing it's iPad

    Thoughts?
     
  2. saving107 macrumors 603

    saving107

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  3. asleep macrumors 68040

    asleep

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    #3
    Hey, that's some neato forum lingo terminology!
     
  4. mcdj macrumors G3

    mcdj

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    Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A293 Safari/6531.22.7)

    Yes it's a conspiracy. And by drudging up lame forgotten posts, you are likely part of it.

    I'M TELLING!
     
  5. DroidRules macrumors 65816

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    You're not very smart are you.... What "lame forgotten posts" did he drudge up? If you mean those long forgotten posts started today then yeah, I gues he "drudged" them up. :rolleyes:
     
  6. rdowns macrumors Penryn

    rdowns

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    You don't have much of a sense of humor, do you? :rolleyes:
     

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