What are your thoughts on companies paying for meat bots to infest forums?

[Slimebeast]

Ganoncrotch said:

Slimebeast said:
It's just myths. It's not cost effective to pay a guy to write forums posts. It happened perhaps a couple of times in history but that was in the past.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/microsoft-paying-youtubers-for-positive-xbox-one-coverage/1100-6417235/

Where were you for this?

What? That's totally a different thing.

The thread is about forum posters being paid for stealth marketing games. Not really the same thing as popular Youtube profiles marketing. Ofc the latter is cost effective. But gaming companies paying forum posts is just a myth and laughable.