The Slide astroturf…
My Prof emailed the class list a little TechCrunch writeup on the Slide controversy — they were caught with their pants down posting fake reviews.
My first reaction to this kind of thing is usually big freakin’ deal. After all, the fact that they got caught at all is proof the system works — that this openness thing that allows them to post fake reviews cuts both ways, and it cut them good…
Then I read the details:
The Adora Slidexxx names are a particularly classy touch: not only is Slide spamming Facebook with fake reviews, they’re also using fake accounts with fake names and more staggeringly adding the fake accounts to the company only Facebook group (The name Adora comes from Slides Sr. Product Manager Adora Cheung).
Holy shit, man…really? Well, so much for some big hypothetical victory for transparency — turns out these people are just complete idiots! Damn.