[RickS]

The practice of creating accounts on a site and making "real" seeming posts for a long time so that when you want to flip the switch and use them for something corporate, they look like they have a background and aren't flagged for being 1 day old accounts with 1 corporate post.

[propogandist]

this is very common on sites like reddit and it's even used by intelligence agencies [1]. Politicians or firms can hire companies to sway public opinion [2], check their clients [3]

[1] https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

[2] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/21/hillary-pac...

[3] https://modsquad.com/work/

[weq]

pretty easy to programme a bot that acts like a teenage girl. * parse magazine * foreach ad/article * capture image (sources: google images, tubmblr, #tag) * Post article to FB feed When idle; * every 30mins wakeup * search through network, like (rand * (TotalPosts * 1/3 * 1/8)) * like all sponsored posts

[mathattack]

Wow - I'm very naive.

Please don't tell me I've been arguing with bots on HN. :-)

[zodPod]

Beep. I am very human. I have a skin bag wrapped around my hardware and everything. Beep.