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post #76 of 79
11/22/11 at 7:18pm
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Originally Posted by Philimon View Post

Head-Fi was my first online forum/hobby site, and I fell for a couple FOTM hype threads. I especially was susceptible to giving prolific posters more weight to their opinions thinking that they had more credibility/or were not shills assuming Head-Fi forum would have filtered them out... 


It seems some people get so many posts because of how busy they are hyping junk.

 

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post #77 of 79
11/22/11 at 8:15pm

Google for the "internet water army" so called because they are paid to "flood" the internet with bogus posts about products.  The loser is the consumer victimized by false information.

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post #78 of 79
11/23/11 at 12:58am

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Originally Posted by Merck View Post

It seems some people get so many posts because of how busy they are hyping junk.

 

 

Wuuuh? Impossible. Head-Fi moderates the hypers and junk. 

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post #79 of 79
11/23/11 at 3:53am
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Originally Posted by fubar3 View Post

Google for the "internet water army" so called because they are paid to "flood" the internet with bogus posts about products.  The loser is the consumer victimized by false information.


Interesting. 

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