In response to “how so?”: If this catches on, you can sell a drug by infiltrating the forum and posting fake news of miracle cures under many different names.
For schemes like this to work, you need some way of guessing who trusts whom. The spammers might claim to trust each other, and you never really know who the spammers are. The best you can hope for is for the real people to get good information from other real people they trust, and the spammers get garbage information from other spammers but that doesn’t matter because they are spammers.
In response to “how so?”: If this catches on, you can sell a drug by infiltrating the forum and posting fake news of miracle cures under many different names.
For schemes like this to work, you need some way of guessing who trusts whom. The spammers might claim to trust each other, and you never really know who the spammers are. The best you can hope for is for the real people to get good information from other real people they trust, and the spammers get garbage information from other spammers but that doesn’t matter because they are spammers.
I don’t know of any implementations of this.