Sunday, November 27, 2011

Blog Post: Fake forum comments are 'eroding' trust in the web





Fake infromation without they recognized it
Nowadays, people often go to websites like facebook to socialize with friends, chatting or update pictures and status, but there are many fake comments too like fake information that most of the people didn't recognized. Fake posters had made many fake accounts to debate and make people unsure who they can trust in the chatting place. The researchers said that they can spot fakes and urge websites to do more police users. And they also say that the fake comments can overwhelm some users and make them hard to trust any information found online. They gave example of a spike in the game world of Warcraft chat forum on the Chinese website baidu. And there were a thread tittled " Junpeng Jia, your mother asked you to go back home for dinner!" too.The most fake comments is widespread in china, where posters got called the internet water army that is becoming common in the other nations.  However, fake comments can spotted by analysis their patterns of the activity and the common words they used, this is said by the researchers. Fakes are mostly like to start with new comment threads and with study suggests. The researchers said that they're refining software tools to help website and tacle the painful problems.

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