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

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SvennoJ said:

Slimebeast said:

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.

SWTOR or Possibly Mass Effect 3 ran into a little bad PR from distributing advertisments looking for people to spread the good word about their game like this, social media and forum posters. Can't be bothered to go digging for which game it was but recall it getting them only bad press at the time, although both ME3 and SWTOR had many more issues than some online PR gone wrong lol.