{"items": [{"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/813299389382?comment_id=813310397322", "anchor": "fb-813310397322", "service": "fb", "text": "I continue to be surprised by the offers to have hired stooges promote things on social media. I shouldn't be, and maybe it's no different than paying people for any other kind of advertising, but it seems different, perhaps because it's not marked as advertising.", "timestamp": "1474643249"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/813299389382?comment_id=813310397322&reply_comment_id=813310437242", "anchor": "fb-813310397322_813310437242", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I'll like your comment for a buck", "timestamp": "1474643301"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/813299389382?comment_id=813310397322&reply_comment_id=813379443952", "anchor": "fb-813310397322_813379443952", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I don't like it. Where's my money?", "timestamp": "1474666365"}, {"author": "David", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/813299389382?comment_id=813310397322&reply_comment_id=813417512662", "anchor": "fb-813310397322_813417512662", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I'll break into Jeff, Julia, and Michael's accounts and give you 3 likes for a total of \u00a27.", "timestamp": "1474682531"}, {"author": "Hollis", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/813299389382?comment_id=813322957152", "anchor": "fb-813322957152", "service": "fb", "text": "If you want to feel dirty sometime, create an account on Amazon Mechanical Turk and look at how many people will pay you to straight-up lie and fabricate product reviews for products you've never seen, describing specific beneficial attributes, etc.
The going rate is way lower than I suspected.", "timestamp": "1474647635"}, {"author": "Ruthan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/813299389382?comment_id=813332802422", "anchor": "fb-813332802422", "service": "fb", "text": "Wait you're actually doing a kickstarter????", "timestamp": "1474650606"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/813299389382?comment_id=813332802422&reply_comment_id=813339703592", "anchor": "fb-813332802422_813339703592", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Whee!
https://www.kickstarter.com/.../mike-mulligan-and-his...", "timestamp": "1474652519"}, {"author": "Ruthan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/813299389382?comment_id=813332802422&reply_comment_id=813342353282", "anchor": "fb-813332802422_813342353282", "service": "fb", "text": "→ You were like \"and this is the kickstarter video\" but I thought you were kidding!", "timestamp": "1474653586"}, {"author": "Becky", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/813299389382?comment_id=813332802422&reply_comment_id=813360082752", "anchor": "fb-813332802422_813360082752", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I also at first thought it was a joke lol", "timestamp": "1474660170"}, {"author": "Vipul", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/813299389382?comment_id=813447352862", "anchor": "fb-813447352862", "service": "fb", "text": "Why do you consider these spam? Others who start Kickstarter may see these as valuable emails informing them of possible ways to fundrause better.", "timestamp": "1474697370"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/813299389382?comment_id=813447352862&reply_comment_id=813481065302", "anchor": "fb-813447352862_813481065302", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Reading them they all seem pretty shady. How likely do you think it is that if I took one of them to on their offer I'd bring in more money than I paid them? I strongly suspect not.", "timestamp": "1474715807"}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/813299389382?comment_id=813447352862&reply_comment_id=813486883642", "anchor": "fb-813447352862_813486883642", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I'm sure some people get e-mail about viagra knockoffs and say \"oh! that's right, I meant to see my doctor about my erectile dysfunction, I should make an appointment, or perhaps just reply to this friendly e-mail\", but the e-mail is still spam.", "timestamp": "1474720054"}, {"author": "Vipul", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/813299389382?comment_id=813447352862&reply_comment_id=813524019222", "anchor": "fb-813447352862_813524019222", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Many products over-advertise themselves; that doesn't make them spam :). If you think they are completely fake then the word you're looking for is \"scam\".
The way I think about spam is that it's untargeted mass mailing where (a) your message isn't targeted well to the audience (i.e., very few people in the audience are interested), or (b) the products you are pushing are so widely known about that people are probably aware of them already (e.g. Viagra and Cialis, though maybe not when they first came out!).
In contrast, this messages seems highly targeted (the set of people raising Kickstarters at a given time is pretty small, and a large fraction of them are interested in methods to improve the yield of their Kickstarters). Also, products to help improve your Kickstarter aren't widely known.
Reaching out proactively to potential customers who you believe might benefit from your product is a pretty big way that most B2B and many B2C companies acquire customers.", "timestamp": "1474736760"}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/813299389382?comment_id=813447352862&reply_comment_id=814295528112", "anchor": "fb-813447352862_814295528112", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I'm old enough that \"spam\" to me means \"unsolicited commercial e-mail\". Messages via Kickstarter are close enough. :^)", "timestamp": "1474853599"}]}