What's up with the sock puppet users in this thread? All the green users were created four hours ago. This is pretty sketchy.
I don't know about the users but the site is genuine... it's a funded start-up
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#32What's up with the sock puppet users in this thread? All the green users were created four hours ago. This is pretty sketchy.
I don't know about the users but the site is genuine... it's a funded start-up
A social media service which needs to promote itself with artificial conversation between sock puppet accounts on social media is not "genuine". Genuine means sincere and authentic, and this company appears to be neither. I try virtually every new advertising startup I come across on HN, but I won't be trusting my credit card to this one.
Re: Show HN : When Pinterest met Adwords, Viraliti was born
#33What's up with the sock puppet users in this thread? All the green users were created four hours ago. This is pretty sketchy.
Amusingly I am still green and agree with you that it is sketchy. A wave of new accounts for a company that specializes in inserting product placement into what people consider to be normal communication... And it's one thing to make an account to ask a question about a service - that's plausible - it's quite another to make an account to say "nice site!". Mods should investigate.
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#34How much money can an active user actually make?
It depends on number of factors one being number of followers that particular user has on Pinterest. An average user having 100 followers could make something between 1$ to 3$ per post.
so from advertiser POV effective CPC will be above 1$ ?
that's very expensive
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#36What's up with the sock puppet users in this thread? All the green users were created four hours ago. This is pretty sketchy.
Amusingly I am still green and agree with you that it is sketchy. A wave of new accounts for a company that specializes in inserting product placement into what people consider to be normal communication... And it's one thing to make an account to ask a question about a service - that's plausible - it's quite another to make an account to say "nice site!". Mods should investigate.
What really bothers me is that it seems to have worked in pushing the link to the front page of Hacker News.
After copious experiences with trigger happy algorithms flagging me as a false-positive spammer, I am surprised that something as blatantly conspicuous as this managed to get so far - regardless of who orchestrated it.
Re: Show HN : When Pinterest met Adwords, Viraliti was born
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amusingly I am still green and agree with you that it is sketchy. A wave of new accounts for a company that specializes in inserting product placement into what people consider to be normal communication... And it's one thing to make an account to ask a question about a service - that's plausible - it's quite another to make an account to say "nice site!". Mods should investigate.
What really bothers me is that it seems to have worked in pushing the link to the front page of Hacker News. After copious experiences with trigger happy algorithms flagging me as a false-positive spammer, I am surprised that something as blatantly conspicuous as this managed to get so far - regardless of who orchestrated it.
It didn't last very long there. Once the sockpuppetry became evident, it was likely flagged by a few people, and is now nowhere to be found among the top 100 stories, whereas a highly voted front page story typically stays for 10+ hours. The user moderation system works.
Re: Show HN : When Pinterest met Adwords, Viraliti was born
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amusingly I am still green and agree with you that it is sketchy. A wave of new accounts for a company that specializes in inserting product placement into what people consider to be normal communication... And it's one thing to make an account to ask a question about a service - that's plausible - it's quite another to make an account to say "nice site!". Mods should investigate.
What really bothers me is that it seems to have worked in pushing the link to the front page of Hacker News. After copious experiences with trigger happy algorithms flagging me as a false-positive spammer, I am surprised that something as blatantly conspicuous as this managed to get so far - regardless of who orchestrated it.
It's especially interesting as my capacity to vote seemed to only kicked in today after a week of being green. The last week my votes seemed to go through but then the arrow reappeared on a later page load and the pages weren't in my saved stories. So it has to have made it to the front page without the help of the current commenting socks, but with votes from elsewhere (or even genuine users I suppose, but the socks put a big question mark over that).