Links to that website have been spammed onto LW before. I am becoming more and more sympathetic to OrphanWilde’s comments on Gleb’s recent thread. (Apropos of which, I don’t think I’d have thought “Ella” was terribly suspicious until I read Gleb’s comment defending her, after which I now reckon Pr(sockpuppet) ~= 0.75. My apologies, Ella, if you happen to be reading this and are not in fact a sockpuppet.)
Though … I wonder about this. Comment-spamming LW with this sort of thing seems like such a tone-deaf thing to do, and doing it twice so super-extra-tone-deaf, that I’m wondering about more exotic explanations. Some third party who has a grudge against Gleb and wants to give his outfit a bad name? A more general comment-spamming campaign executed by someone who didn’t know that LW would be a bad choice of place to post comment spam? I dunno.
The thing that is driving me crazy WRT Gleb is exactly the tone-deafness. It’s not just bad, it’s bizarro-world bad, to the point where it feels like it’s that bad on purpose only I can’t imagine any possible purpose. That’s the “recursive” aspect to the weirdness.
(I actually came across iamhappy in my search of his posts for other Ella-like accounts, as opposed to in the recent comments; I didn’t see an immediate connection, so I dismissed it as a spambot, and didn’t initially notice the spam was new. There were two other Ella-like accounts, not including iamhappy.)
Yikes, just discovered these comments. Not sure what’s going on there. I pointed out above that while I appreciate that person liking the MPQ, it’s not appropriate to post these here in this spammy manner.
I’ll save all y’all the trouble and directly quote the relevant part:
Links to that website have been spammed onto LW before. I am becoming more and more sympathetic to OrphanWilde’s comments on Gleb’s recent thread. (Apropos of which, I don’t think I’d have thought “Ella” was terribly suspicious until I read Gleb’s comment defending her, after which I now reckon Pr(sockpuppet) ~= 0.75. My apologies, Ella, if you happen to be reading this and are not in fact a sockpuppet.)
Though … I wonder about this. Comment-spamming LW with this sort of thing seems like such a tone-deaf thing to do, and doing it twice so super-extra-tone-deaf, that I’m wondering about more exotic explanations. Some third party who has a grudge against Gleb and wants to give his outfit a bad name? A more general comment-spamming campaign executed by someone who didn’t know that LW would be a bad choice of place to post comment spam? I dunno.
The thing that is driving me crazy WRT Gleb is exactly the tone-deafness. It’s not just bad, it’s bizarro-world bad, to the point where it feels like it’s that bad on purpose only I can’t imagine any possible purpose. That’s the “recursive” aspect to the weirdness.
(I actually came across iamhappy in my search of his posts for other Ella-like accounts, as opposed to in the recent comments; I didn’t see an immediate connection, so I dismissed it as a spambot, and didn’t initially notice the spam was new. There were two other Ella-like accounts, not including iamhappy.)
Yikes, just discovered these comments. Not sure what’s going on there. I pointed out above that while I appreciate that person liking the MPQ, it’s not appropriate to post these here in this spammy manner.
A bit of googling would point to Ella being a Filipino girl with a FB and a Twitter account.
Noted. Probability estimate duly nudged downward. (And Pr(meatpuppet) increased just a little.)
Yup, Ella is from Albay in the Phillipines. She is an aspiring rationalist who was introduced to Less Wrong through Intentional Insights content.
As I said below, just discovered these. Not my work at all. Sorry to see these spammy comments.