Re: [Gnu-arch-users] On PR and 'community building'

[Tomas Zerolo]

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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