A fandom example of Paid Comment Spam?
The phenomenon of paid comment spammers, who pose as Real Live Commenters with more or less success to leave "cleverly" camouflaged advertising in blogs, recently came up again at ML, and by a curious coincidence I dowsed up a probable instance of it going on in the wild, concerning the movie (which I didn't know was being made) of Susan Cooper's
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What irritates me most about the changes is the uselessness of it all. When I read DiR I thought how easy that could be made into a movie even with 70s' technology. Solidly structured story of easy-to-handle length, good mapping of inner to outer world, impressive pictures, hardly any needs for special effects (and those could have been done with matte painting and models).
I understand that they are changing things when the book does not translate well into another medium, but changing just because you can, why the heck don't they just get an original screenplay written? Other than really bad fanfic authors who need the built-in audience of fandom to get even one reader for their OOC drivel, movies don't seem to do that much worse when they are original...
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You might be interested in the above link. I spent an amused evening staving off the boredom as I read the various ways these people were,\ "scambaiting" --basically screwing with 419 scammers, sometimes just to use up their time, sometimes with the aim of helping authorities catch the scammers. They're called 419 scams because, "Advance Fee Fraud (AFF), [is] known internationally as "4-1-9" fraud after the section of the Nigerian penal code which addresses fraud schemes." Most of the posts are absolutely hilarious.
Hope you enjoy. :)
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