Attention moles, fess up.

[angry.bob]

FTC says viral marketing and people being paid to provide "opinions" to peers on message boards, chat rooms, myspace, etc. must disclose. About fucking time.

link

[schild]

It's true. I'm a mole for Agetec.

Did I mention they just announced Disaster Report 2 for america? Raw Damage is the name I think. Too lazy to go to GAF. Fucking buy it, fuckers.

ALSO, BUY A WII. BUY A WII.

[stray]

Raw Danger

[squirrel]

I will admit - though I assumed this was common knowledge - that I am an active agent for the establishment of a worldwide administration reporting to rabid, socially dysfunctional urban rodents.

Guilty as charged...

[Tebonas]

Buy more money!

Now you made me plug my employer as well.

[Ironwood]

Ah.  Time to confess I'm a rep for the Scottish Tourist Board.

We're trying to keep you fuckers away.

[Azazel]

It's well known that Schild is a mole for the PSP. Also, the XBox 360.

Basically, anything shiney and consolish.

[stray]

He pimped the NGE as well.

[schild]

Motherfuckers, I just bought a $100 keyboard and I recently spent $150 on gaming headphones. You all will pipe the hell down. I do not discriminate. I just speak truth. And PCs are a pain in the ass. Saying otherwise is a damn dirty lie.

Stray, collision detection.

[squirrel]

Ah.  Time to confess I'm a rep for the Scottish Tourist Board.

We're trying to keep you fuckers away.

Aside from those of us who are fans of the damn fine single malts you folks produce I can't really see how that's a tough job, only whisky drinkers and golfers would be interested and how do you weed them out from the locals? Seems on par with the Welsh Society for the Prevention of Sunburns. Of which I'm admittedly a member. There's 7 of us.

[Fabricated]

SMOOOOOKE.

[NiX]

I'm a mole for the Marijuana Growers of Canada. They pay me in weed. Needless to say, I don't do my job well.

[Tebonas]

Its ok, they smoke it themself and don't care about your success rate either.

[NiX]

Fucking awesome! I have this craving for KFC Popcorn Chicken.

[Signe]

I am brought to you by the colour pink.

[Sky]

From the article: "...such as a post on a Web blog"

Or a web log. The word blog makes me itchy to smash. And that misuse is right up there with HDD drive.

[Sky]

I am brought to you by the colour pink.

Technically we are all brought by the color pink.

[tazelbain]

I am a meber of a secret organisation dedicated to fill the internet with bad spelling are worse grammar.

[schild]

SMOOOOOKE.

Not now, Bob.

[HaemishM]

It's about fucking time the FTC showed some balls about the right sort of thing. I have no problem with people pimping products they use, or pimping products they are paid to pimp. But I want to know if you get paid to pimp, especially on message boards.

I am paid to pimp RAGE!(TM) brand cologne. It smells like horse piss and failed dreams. I'm soaking in it right now.

[Megrim]

I think i was busted before, but i must admit it again: i am a mole for the Russians. Pay no attention to Australia. None. Koalas are cute. CUTE!


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[Yegolev]

ALSO, BUY A WII. BUY A WII.

No one would buy you being a Nintendo mole.

Ironwood, your plan works great for people like me that love Scotland for the ability to walk outside and HEAR NOTHING and SEE NO PEOPLE.

[sinij]

Here how you tell a plant:

1) sub 50 posts
2) defends or promotes specific product but does not generalize
3) majority of 50 posts are 'me too'/'I like it' on WoW or equally generic topics

[Azazel]

I think i was busted before, but i must admit it again: i am a mole for the Russians.

you mean russianwives.com? or russianbrides.com?

[Nonentity]

Here how you tell a plant:

1) sub 50 posts
2) defends or promotes specific product but does not generalize
3) majority of 50 posts are 'me too'/'I like it' on WoW or equally generic topics

lol me too



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[Ironwood]

Ok, that made me laugh.

[geldonyetich]

I confess, I was never a mole, just overopinionated and with a tendancy to make unlikely predictions about everything gaming.

Also, World of Warcraft wasn't really successful - most of the players were made out of cardboard.

[Kitsune]

The bad moles are the easy to spot ones, with under a hundred (or worse, just one) posts that are obviously shilling for someone.  Like one guy on one of the gadget blogs, I think it was Gizmodo, posted a comment on a log about the Zune that he was going to buy one for every member of his family, he loved them so much.  And this was before the Zune was even released.

Kinda stupidly obvious.

But I read another article, Confessions of an Online Guerilla Marketer, describing a rather more competent mole at work.  Can't assume that they're all idiots.

[Strazos]

Believe it or not, I'm a mole for BioWare. keke

[McCow]

Here how you tell a plant:

1) sub 50 posts
2) defends or promotes specific product but does not generalize
3) majority of 50 posts are 'me too'/'I like it' on WoW or equally generic topics

lol me too



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I like it!

...

Was the ! a bit much?  I don't want to sound over enthusiastic.

[Sky]

Wait. We could get paid for this shit?

Damn.

[naum]

My favorite, to date...

Last weekend our family had a get together for my aunt and uncle's 40th anniversary. Anyway, I brought my 360 with to play some games with my nephews. Turns out both of my nephews that showed up already had 360s, and one of them even brought theirs with, too. So we went downstairs to hook them up, when my uncle said "don't bother, I already got my 360 hooked up to the big screen". I was floored. My uncle is 62 years old! Just then my other uncle (the 62 year olds brother) said "What? I didn't know you had a 360! We could have been playing Gears of War coop!" Now I couldn't believe my ears. Just then our family priest showed up at the door, he normally stops by for big events like this. Well, under his arm he had a 360. He had just bought it and didn't want to leave it out in the cold. All of us who were just talking about 360 were shocked and we all just started laughing, including our priest.

While we were laughing we heard a big sound, like boxes falling over. My aunt had opened a closet where no fewer than two dozen Xbox 360s tumbled out all over the floor. She looked embarrased, then explained she had bought them for all the memebers of her bridge club. They were tired of playing bridge and heard about how you could play Uno online with 360. She was worried my uncle would be mad for spending so much money. Luckily he wasn't mad at all, he said 'No way, I love Xbox 360!'. Then we all laughed for a good half hour.

Yeah, I'd say 360 is really picking up some steam.

forum.teambox.com/...

[sinij]

But I read another article, Confessions of an Online Guerilla Marketer, describing a rather more competent mole at work.  Can't assume that they're all idiots.

I read this article and don't believe it. It would take too much effort to get that sort of in-depth involvement just for sake of selling few extra copies of 'the product'. Plants need to streamline process in order to succeed - so biased reviews will be cross-posted and easy to track with some google-foo and rest, 'the filler' will be brief nonsense someone could type up on any topic in under a minute.

Fortunately for us it looks like FTC will soon do something about it.

[Triforcer]

I'm a mole for the Wii, and also for the Democrats (by inducing rage to stimulate Dem turnout).  My elaborately constructed persona is a lie, I'm actually a San Franciso Green Party member on Obama's staff. 

[Jain Zar]

I want to be a mole for Origin Systems, but EA bought them, and did naughty things to them and made their soul go cold.. so... cold...