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

[SvennoJ]

Slimebeast said:

Ganoncrotch said:

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.

Paid forum posts is a real thing, no clue what the scale is or whether game companies would bother with it, but you can sign up and make some money.
http://moneypantry.com/get-paid-post-forums/

You tube and twitter are much more cost effective though. Popularity pays both ways.
Meat bots infesting forums nah. Although isn't MS working AI bots that can post or tweet. Ah yep here it is http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.936317-20-Outrageous-Tweets-by-Microsofts-Twitter-Taught-AI-Chatbox Needs a bit of 'fine tuning' before it's suited to infest forums.