Re:We turned $140k on Kickstarter into $40k debt and broke even
by Griffinsauce on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @03:00AM
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Why the heck would FB run their own click farms? They own the database... They could generate clicks at will. This is the dumbest conspiracy theory I've seen in a while.
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Re:We turned $140k on Kickstarter into $40k debt and broke even
by shermanyo on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @07:57AM
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Technically, it wasn't FB, it was Jared doing it secretly, until he was caught by Richard. They tried to keep it secret, but Dinesh and Gilfoyle eventually realized where the uptick in users came from. Dinesh _did_ then offer Richard a program to do just that, edit the databases directly...
Man, I can't wait for Silicon Valley to come back next season lol
Re:We turned $140k on Kickstarter into $40k debt and broke even
by arde on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @12:16AM
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Running a click farm instead of editing the database would be the sensible thing to do when trying to keep the operation secret. That way, people inside FB would not know about the fraud.