Sex sells

Sex sells

Yes, also here on G+. I'm sure you have seen your share of profiles trying to promote sports blogs or a website selling something. Most of them are not very subtle, all their posts are just links to one or a few sites.

Well, the bots got better. Within the last week I noticed an influx of ladies who just love to post all kinds of sex-related images. They never go too far, they know the written and unwritten rules here. Those profiles do indeed pretty much look like real people, but...

1) They do not respond. When I come across someone who doesn't respond to comments under their posts, I don't add them, even if they are people. These are likely not.

2) They all post almost the same images and links. Of course, when you are a bot, you hope that your masters have prepared a sufficiently large pool of content to draw from. The pool is there, yes, but it's about the same everywhere.

3) Their main targets are slipped in rather infrequently, "drowned" by the sex posts, so people won't notice too quickly. Funnily, there is one post/link that all those accounts are showing. For some strange reason, sex-crazy women love hispanic journalists, especially if they are nationally associated:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/100413265679713020179/posts/8e6QtgjhKwM

So why did I say that sex sells? Because these accounts get circled, they get followers. The adsters finally found their way in.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/100413265679713020179/posts/8e6QtgjhKwM