{"id":6203,"date":"2013-04-05T11:48:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T18:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6203"},"modified":"2013-04-22T14:59:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T21:59:47","slug":"comment-stuffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/05\/comment-stuffing\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment Stuffing by Sockpuppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Feedly RSS Reader for Chrome should not be trusted. Since they are cheating to get signups, it&#8217;s impossible to say what other bad things they are doing behind the scenes with your data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The face of spam keeps changing. It used to be email, then blog comments, now it&#8217;s comment stuffing (as in &#8220;ballot stuffing&#8221;). Look at this screenshot and tell me what you think looks fishy:<\/p>\n<p>Let me give you a hint, the exact same comment was repeated word-for-word by over 40 different people in the review section of this Chrome Extension.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ballot-stuffing.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ballot-stuffing-300x216.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ballot-stuffing-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ballot-stuffing-200x144.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ballot-stuffing-600x432.png 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ballot-stuffing-50x36.png 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ballot-stuffing.png 1113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s a near impossible task, but you should always be on the lookout for fake people (AKA <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sockpuppet_(Internet)\">Sockpuppets<\/a>) recommending products. I reported this incident to Google but it&#8217;s happened a lot before and it will happen a lot in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Feedly RSS Reader for Chrome should not be trusted. Since they are cheating to get signups, it&#8217;s impossible to say what other bad things they are doing behind the scenes with your data. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; The face of spam keeps changing. It used to be email, then blog comments, now it&#8217;s comment stuffing (as in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6205,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions\/6205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}