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

[lynati-1.livejournal.com]

I second the "kill it with fire" motion, for all the reasons previously listed. Plus, if I had people reading the reviews of one of my stories, those would be in no way helpful to them. When I come across poorly-written anything (whether by bots or by people) it makes me wince; I find these the mental equivalent of stepping barefoot on a holly leaf.

[edenfalling]

Yeah, they don't really make the story look good, do they? Normally if that were my only reaction, I'd leave them alone (I am not in charge of the literary aesthetics of the universe, after all), but since they're fishy as well as badly written... away they go!