Interesting Links for 24-01-2013

[andrewducker]

• Scottish exports rose by £1.6bn in 2011
  (tags: scotland business europe )
• Bitcoin casino makes $500,000 in six months
  (tags: bitcoin casino gambling )
• A Visual timeline of the One Ring
  (tags: lotr visualization )
• So, a tech-writer dies, and goes to heaven...
  (tags: technology jokes funny writing )
• Actual Facebook Graph Searches
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Comments

[bart_calendar]

Who pays 10 cents per fake review?

When I have to do fake reviews it's at least $2 per short review (with a minimum of 100 reviews) or $5 per review that is more than a couple sentences long.

And fake testimonials are are, at minimum, $10 per testimonial.

Note on fake testimonials, any smart fake testimonial writer inserts things in the fake testimonials so that they can prove they are their own testimonials should we not get paid and/or the client tries to use the testimonials for more than one product (which would be a contract violation.)

You can usually spot these "tells" in fake testimonials if you read them correctly.

For example, the names in my fake testimonials are often names of members of popular bands.

Michael J.

Keith R.

Ron. W.

Charlie W.

for example on one I recently did.

Or else are references that someone looking hard would get, but that an average client wouldn't. For erection pills, for example.

Ed Rex.

Anne Tigony.

For pills to make your dick bigger:

Paul M.

Daryl H.

John O.

Nicky S.

[andrewducker]

I assume that for 10 cents you get badly written reviews written by someone whose first language is not English...

[bart_calendar]

That's a poor way to spend money because nobody will believe the reviews.

Give me a couple hundred bucks and I'll crank out reviews nobody will notice are fake (the trick is to always insert at least one minor complaint about the product.)

[octopoid_horror]

"looking hard.... fake erection pills" :-D

[supergee]

Hagbard Celine was right: Never whistle while you're pissing.

[andrewducker]

Or, it turns out, brush your teeth with a vibrating toothbrush.

[philmophlegm]

The entry for Plymouth is pretty accurate too.

[wig]

Leeds really is cheaper than London! :-D

[andrewducker]

You'd hope so!

[ashfae]

That one on cities is accurate for nearly all the cities I've been to on the list. The only exception I'd make is for Aberdeen, which doesn't have nearly enough neon to be Vegas. The others, all spot on.

[danieldwilliam]

I just don’t see Aberdeen as Vegas. I’ve lived in Aberdeen between the ages of 3-10 and 15-22. I can’t think of a city in the UK less like how I think Vegas would be.

[ashfae]

Yes, exactlt. Admittedly I was only in Aberdeen for a long weekend and I haven't actually been to Vegas, but still...it's called the Grey City for good reason, ang all that granite is about as un-Vegas as you could get, surely. Both have great food though, I imagine.

[danieldwilliam]

AKA the Silver City or the Granite City.