On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 02:23:29PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > There's a fascinating post on Penny Arcade today, which includes the > following text:
[astroturfing]
getting wildly off-topic, but heck, many interesting things in this list
are off-topic anyway ;-)
Besides what Miles said, I'd have to add:
- there seems to be a continuum (as with any advertisments) ranging
from "useful" to "bad". Of course, the clandestine nature of this
astroturfing seems most undesirable (as viewed from "our" side)
- I wonder whether some of the techniques used for fighting spam could
be applied to this. Would it be possible to recognize the same
writer (in different disguises) based on tri-gram (n-gram) frequency
distributions? What about a karma system à la slashdot (but much
more diverse: GroupLens comes to mind)?
Back to work.
Regards
-- tomás
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