wherein Liz receives a series of peculiar reviews

[edenfalling]

In the past two days, I have gotten five anonymous reviews on ff.net for my story Little Sister. Normally this would simply be flattering -- hey, people like my story! -- but these are not normal reviews. They are clearly written by the same person (or bot) despite attributing themselves to three or four different "people," and they seem to be working their way toward being an advertisement for upcoming Narnia movies. Or something like that.

This is what they look like:

jadis 1300, 2011-09-15

wonderful brilliant this had to va in the film The Magician's Nephew

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jadis 1300, 2011-09-15

wonderful brilliant this story had to va in the film The Magician's Nephew Little Sister, a chronicles of narnia fanfic - FanFiction.Net

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charn 123, 2011-09-16

This wonderful story has to be with the film The Magician's Nephew as a set up for the film The Silver Chair, which comes years after

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[no attribution], 2011-09-16

wonderful has to be with the film The Magician's Nephew which comes 2014 as a set up for the film The Silver Chair, which comes 2015

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Lily.w, 2011-09-16

This wonderful story has to be with the film The Magician's Nephew which comes 2014 as a set up for the film The Silver Chair, which comes 2015


What I am wondering is if these are some kind of spam that is intended to make the page more searchable to bots (or test whether ads will be deleted), and if so, whether I should get rid of them. Thoughts, anyone?

Comments

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

I read this last night and think I dreamed about it. This is really, really weird. Most fundamentally, I'm having a hard time understanding why and how a marketing agency or production house would PAY someone to do something like this for a film that is not even in production yet and do this "word of mouth" campaign by planting bad, fake illiterate reviews in a single story (or maybe others) on a fanfiction site? While I should never assume the craven lows to which media and marketing can fall, I can't believe anyone hearing this pitch would think it was worth a dime, especially given the timing. I wonder if other stories got similar hits? I'm very curious to find out out the reach of this weirdness.

[edenfalling]

I don't know WHAT it was about, but the general consensus is that the situation is fishy at best and they were useless as reviews, so I deleted all five of them.