This happens a lot online now. Many people new to certain hobbies won't understand specific terms, leading to many falling for these troll/satire videos. This is especially prevalent in smaller communities where everyone is more active.

I love reading these types of reviews. Especially on items that are barely functional or obviously a scam. The troll reviews are really fun to read and share. The only problem with these reviews is that it often inflates the ratings of these items.

I'm surprised that they mailed both of them back and actually responded to their messages. It's really in line with the Mr. Rodgers brand but that means that someone read through their messages and wrote a personal response.

Code switching is almost mandatory in public. You can't talk and act the same way around everyone. The way you act to customers and coworkers is going to be different from your friends and family.

Some other examples of friction in web design is TikTok's "you've been watching too long". Other social medias and games have been implementing this as well.

It's interesting how we are back in the age of rumors and theories. Back then, people didn't have the tools to easily fact check. In modern times, people don't have the attention span to fact check what they see on the internet. Those short, half truth rumors spread like wildfire now.

Statistics is always something that can be used to mislead or trick readers. In this example, it mentions only 5% of users being bots, but doesn't mention what counts as a user. There could be many inactive accounts lowering the overall number of bots, but not lowering the percentage of bots that users see.

I've always felt weird seeing these kinds of posts on my feed. It feels weird morally to post about something like helping the less fortunate. The posts make the good deed feel disingenuous.

Allowing bots on websites allows for more "users" and data traffic. Having more data traffic allows for advertiser to make more money. Users could use bots for many reasons but the main reason is to try and grow an account.

I commonly see bots used for online shopping. Lots of scalpers use bots as a way to get concert tickets or new clothes in order to resell for a profit.

Taoism focuses less on the individual and more on the world. Individually, we cannot make much of a difference, so it's better to let the universe control.

I feel that most of the responsibility should lie in the person who ran the code. They had the final say on what the bot would do rather than the programmer who just created the bot.