Wikipedia Actively Battling PR Sockpuppets
Found on Slashdot on Wednesday, 23 October 2013
The Wikimedia Foundation's executive director has confirmed that Wikipedia editors are actively engaged in a wide-ranging battle against those PR firms. Over the past couple weeks, those editors have isolated several hundred user accounts linked to people 'paid to write articles on Wikipedia promoting organizations or products,' according to Sue Gardner.
Some 250 suspicious user accounts have already been nuked.
It's not only Wikipedia that's affected. Another big target is Amazon too. Some of the product reviews just sound too good to be true (and that's why they probably aren't). So as a result, just ignore the positive comments and focus more on the negative ones. Until those are paid for too, that is.