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    Kanto Kanrei Member Marshal Murat's Avatar
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    Default Stealth Marketing, is it affecting the .Org?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_marketing

    I know that the .org has a very good policy against marketing (thank god for the entrance hall!) but has this new marketing technique affected the .org?
    To spare anyone from possibly reading the link, the basic jist of stealth marketing is something that may happen in the Arena.
    Ad group gets an account, asks "Any good WW2 games?" and lets a discussion begin. Then, ten posts later, he inserts "I saw this <game title> what do you think?" This steers discussion into the game, and website hits.

    Has this affected the .org? Are there barriers in place to prevent such user manipulation. Have you encountered this subliminal exploitation of the community?
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    Default Re: Stealth Marketing, is it affecting the .Org?

    I wouldn't be too worried about it.


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    Default Re: Stealth Marketing, is it affecting the .Org?

    me neither.
    there is a bigger chance of an orgah doing that.

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    Default Re: Stealth Marketing, is it affecting the .Org?

    I don't forsee a problem.
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    Default Re: Stealth Marketing, is it affecting the .Org?

    There were some painfully obvious examples of this a while back. I think the guy got banned, because he would literally post a thread where he said that such-and-such a game was really great. No questions, no opening of a real topic. It was really bad.

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    Default Re: Stealth Marketing, is it affecting the .Org?

    Whenever I feel as though I'm running into stealth marketing, I just take a quick sip of Sprite. Its sparkly, refreshing taste brings me right back to reality. Yup, there's nothing like Sprite to make my day better. Sprite also improves my performance in the Mafia games.

    Mmmm, just talking about it makes me thirsty. Time to get a crystal cool refreshing Sprite soda.


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