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Re:Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web by hosay123 on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @04:53PM (#5567150)
You decide.. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=infoman

The domain was registered one day after the HN account was registered, first post wasn't made for 14 days (aka. when the username no longer appears in green). In his defence, if he is a shill, he's not very good at it.

Edit: hnsearch picked up a hellbanned post (it should appear on the front page, but it doesn't) at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5567259 that mentions a couple more accounts

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Re:Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web by xwei on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @06:28PM (#5567752)
> You decide.. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=infoman

do you think Google created this? Obviously not, Google get nothing from it.

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Re:Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web by taopao on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @05:12PM (#5567294)
Looks like a bot that programmatically shovels trendy topical matter from RSS into HN. The submission and article headlines are identical, down to the curly quotes - smells of automation to me.
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Re:Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web by jacquesm on Thursday April 18, 2013 @07:31AM (#5569932)
Bookmarklet.
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Re:Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web by orangethirty on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @04:59PM (#5567201)
Google has a little spammer loose on HN. Neat.
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Re:Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web by Kylekramer on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @05:09PM (#5567273)
Seems much more likely to be the people behind glass-apps.org than Google.
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Re:Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web by jacquesm on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @05:18PM (#5567327)
Confirmed:

http://information-man.com/impressum/

"Verantwortliche Ansprechperson: Iwan Uswak"

information-man -> infoman

whois glass-apps.org:

Domain Name:GLASS-APPS.ORG

Registrant ID:AT1001919805572 Registrant Name:Iwan Uswak

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Re:Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web by orangethirty on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @05:12PM (#5567292)
I'm not criticizing them, its neat to find something like this here. I can find it on almost any other site out there, but HN is not the place to game. Still, who knows if glass-apps.org is getting a nice check from Google. Not a bad thing, either. I know of companies whose sole reason of existence is to do this for bigger companies. Its just neat. That's all.
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Re:Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web by jacquesm on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @05:10PM (#5567277)
that makes this submission extra funny:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5440466

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Re:Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web by orangethirty on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @05:15PM (#5567309)
Meta-spamming. (:

Blog post in 3...2...1...

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Re:Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web by mtgx on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @06:34PM (#5567773)
He's just posting his own stuff...a little too often I agree, but nothing out of ordinary here beyond that. It's not like he's the first on HN who's ever done that.
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