Grip Room - how to spot fake comments1 Oct 2021 19:49
Gentle reminder that sounds oh so familiar
6. Posts mostly only appear during market hours, and stick to a small number of talking points.
There are two types of users a fake comment can come from: A bot, and a paid basher.
Both will usually only post during market hours (4am EST to 8pm EST).
Bots usually post in conjunction with a short attack. So when the stock is red, the bots come out. They do this so that if the firm shorting/manipulating the stock is ever investigated by the SEC (lol) they can point to the bearish posts and say, “See, look, there was negative sentiment, that’s why we shorted the stock to death.”
The firms that run the bot programs are smart. They can’t run the bot 24/7. It would become instantly obvious that the comments are coming from a bot if they were posted every 10 minutes non-stop. Since their goal is to influence you into buying or selling (which you can only do at certain times) they focus on market hours.
Click the person’s profile. See when they post. They’ve probably never dropped an insightful comment at 10AM on a Sunday.
Paid bashers are a bit different. This is a person working in what is likely a third-world country with cheap labor. They have offices set up in what’s called “troll factories.” But these people are also human. While the labor laws are less stringent in these countries, they aren’t working 150 hours a week. Paid bashers are too valuable to work to death. The value that comes from destroying a stock by 50% for no reason is worth billions in short-selling income, call option expiration, and rebound accumulation.
Paid bashers likely only work 40-50 hours per week. They also have slightly more complicated posts than the bots. Instead of “This stock is junk,” they’ve done some research, or more likely been given research on the company, and some bearish talking points. They’ll make references to management, upcoming milestones, or missed milestones in the past.
But these paid bashers are just modern-day telemarketers. Most of them are uneducated when it comes to investing. They can’t think for themselves. They can’t adapt to new information.
If you feel like a bearish user is sticking to a script, it’s probably because they are.
Most of the time if you challenge their bull****, they won’t be able to defend it. They’ll resort to ad-hominem attacks. (Attacking you instead of your information.)
If you’re challenging a paid basher’s bull, and they respond with “You’re dumb,” instead of a detailed explanation of why they’re right and you’re wrong, then you can ignore this person.
Bots are unable to communicate normally.
You can out them by asking them simple questions that act like a captcha. Use a slightly complicated question, not basic math. Make sure to vary your questions. Obviously, nobody on the internet is under the obligation to respond to anyone, but if you see the same bear-bot every day, and they never answer anyone about anything… Then you can ale
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