I am not a smart man. And I have no idea who this Marco Williams dude is. Sorry to disappoint you. I learned about bots from YouTube in which an Amber Heard person attacked different people commenting on the AH/JD trial.
Marco Williams is a documentary filmmaker and professor of film production at Northwestern University. His films have received several awards, including the Gotham Documentary Achievement Award for Two Towns of Jasper and he has been nominated three times for the Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize.
Sorry if my attempt at parodying typical bot "come-ons" fell flat.
One occasionally encounters comments like that in public message boards - someone agreeing with you, flattering you, and then referencing some online trader with whom they have great success. The dead give-away is that, suddenly, lots of other bots will then post additional comments agreeing with the initial bot. Pretty obvious to me that it's a "set-up," but I guess that it must work with some people.
I once read, long ago, a comment about how paper-thin (read: easy to spot) these scams are - but someone then explained that they are intentionally obvious, because the scammers are targeting the absolutely stupidest (and/or greediest) people they can possibly find. If the potential mark starts by asking probing question, and expressing doubts, then the scammers will immediately drop them. The scammers want people who are "true believers" (i.e., unquestioning fools). By intentionally including, e.g., blatant misspellings early on in their "come-ons," they immediately filter out people with better than eighth-grade educations.
Regards,
I think Mr busek was mimicking a bot. That’s the kind of language you often see from a bot in an effort to persuade another person to buy/sell/believe/disbelieve a particular thing.
I do think he was honest in his appraisal of your comment...”That’s a very perceptive remark!”
IIRC, it was something like bots that sabotaged Rush at one time. (I’m not sure if the term, “bot” had been invented then.) Thousands of “people” were trying to take him down because of something he said and he was pretty upset. Turns out it was about 10 actual people and their automated algorithms.
That’s the first time I ever heard this could be done. Almost unbelieveable at the time.