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SvennoJ on 10 May 2016

Influencer marketing is big business nowadays, to engage people to spread the message, ie create earned media.
https://www.hashtagpaid.com/

Results of the XBox influencer campaign in Canada
https://www.hashtagpaid.com/cs-xbox.pdf

Dunno if they bother with forum posts. Plenty of people are happy creating threads based on twitter posts already.



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FunFan on 10 May 2016

I personally find offense with the word meatbot. Call us guardians or sentinels.



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Shiken on 10 May 2016

Seriously where do I sign up. I would even represent XBox if I had to, just sign me up!



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barneystinson69 on 10 May 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
My thoughts? I wish they'd pay me for that. I'm just stuck posting here and not even getting paid

Same for me as well. Well, except for using it at work occasionally



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Zappykins on 11 May 2016

Marketing is sort of like ticks on humanity. They just suck blood and don't create anything.



 

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Skratchy on 11 May 2016

I don't really believe they do.

I think sometimes people just have a hard time accepting others may have a different opinion than them, and just ASSUME they're getting paid for it. It's kind of sad fanboy territory.



Livewire on 11 May 2016

Won't be surprised if they exist, anything is possible on the internet.



Cobretti2 on 11 May 2016

who cares, for every one meat bot there is 100 anti company that meat bot represents to shut them down



 

 

Ganoncrotch on 11 May 2016
Cobretti2 said:
who cares, for every one meat bot there is 100 anti company that meat bot represents to shut them down

You are suggesting that a single advertising shill would only create a single account or persona to push the system or brand which they are being paid for? Heck all it takes is a few D&D character sheets to keep track of some base information and to avoid using obvious official terms and you could flood a forum/message board with positive PR.

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Slimebeast on 11 May 2016
John2290 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.

Lol, doesn't matter whats cost effective. I know someone who is paid 276 euro a day to do this by a certain company I can't mention. Its real and its effective.

Yeah right.