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A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps a person or organization without disclosing he has a close relationship with the person or organization.

"Shill" typically refers to someone who purposely gives onlookers the impression he is an enthusiastic independent customer of a seller (or marketer of ideas) for whom he is secretly working. The person or group who hires the shill is using crowd psychology, to encourage other onlookers or audience members to purchase the goods or services (or accept the ideas being marketed). Shills are often employed by professional marketing campaigns. "Plant" and "stooge" more commonly refer to any person who is secretly in league with another person or organization while pretending to be neutral or actually a part of the organization he is planted in, such as a magician's audience, a political party, or an intelligence organization (see double agent).

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"Shill" can also be used pejoratively to describe a critic who appears either all-too-eager to heap glowing praise upon mediocre offerings, or who acts as an apologist for glaring flaws. In this sense, the critic would be an implicit shill for the industry at large, possibly because his income is tied to its prosperity. The origin of the term "shill" is uncertain; it may be an abbreviation of "shillaber." The word originally denoted a carnival worker who pretended to be a member of the audience in an attempt to elicit interest in an attraction. Some sources trace the usage back to 1914.

Internet

In online discussion media, satisfied consumers or "innocent" parties may express specific opinions in order to further the interests of an organization in which they have an interest, such as a commercial vendor or special interest group. In academia, this is called opinion spamming. Web sites can also be set up for the same purpose. For example, an employee of a company that produces a specific product might praise the product anonymously in a discussion forum or group in order to generate interest in that product, service, or group. In addition, some shills use "sock puppetry," where they sign on as one user soliciting recommendations for a specific product or service. They then sign on as a different user pretending to be a satisfied customer of a specific company.

In some jurisdictions and circumstances, this type of activity may be illegal. In addition, reputable organizations may prohibit their employees and other interested parties (contractors, agents, etc.) from participating in public forums or discussion groups in which a conflict of interest might arise, or will at least insist that their employees and agents refrain from participating in any way that might create a conflict of interest. For example, the plastic surgery company Lifestyle Lift ordered their employees to post fake positive reviews on websites. As a result, they were sued, and ordered to pay $300,000 in damages by the New York Attorney General's office. Said Attorney General Andrew Cuomo: "This company’s attempt to generate business by duping consumers was cynical, manipulative, and illegal. My office has [been] and will continue to be on the forefront in protecting consumers against emerging fraud and deception, including ‘astroturfing,' on the Internet."

Astroturfing refers to political, advertising, or public relations campaigns that are designed to mask the sponsors of the message to give the appearance of coming from a disinterested, grassroots participant. Astroturfing is intended to give the statements the credibility of an independent entity by withholding information about the source's financial connection. The term is a derivation of AstroTurf, a brand of synthetic carpeting designed to look like natural grass.

Astroturfers use software to mask their identity. Sometimes one individual operates over many personas to give the impression of widespread support for their client's agenda.[citation needed] Some studies suggest astroturfing can alter public viewpoints and create enough doubt to inhibit action.

wherestip wrote:

网络水军

这个词我还是第一次听说，不过通篇看下来就知道是啥。

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shill?s=t

以前叫作 “吹捧者” － 为谋自己利益而无耻吹捧的帮腔。

Phil Hand wrote:

其实翻译经验越多，越对自己的译文不满意，看到越多的可改良的地方。有的时候在工作中，得逼自己说，这句已经可以了，达标了，不要在这句话上再花更多时间了！

Phil Hand wrote:

从这个贴塔来看，特别是文学翻译，一句话可以琢磨两三天，赚个几十块钱，喝白粥和西北风！

Zhoudan wrote:

我现在觉得到处都有陷阱，越翻越小心，快不起来。

Two short years after returning to China, Wu Ningkun was labeled a dangerous counterrevolutionary and an "ultrarightist" for his Western teaching methods and curriculum, which included such books as Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. ...

Alan Wang wrote:

Hat off for those who actually offered their own versions to the translations discussed here.
That is the most daring thing to do and very different from the big and hollow talk of “no contest”.

wherestip wrote:

Alan,

the most daring thing for you to do is to open your mouth and remove all doubt while it was better to have kept it shut and be thought a fool.

wherestip wrote:

I ordered a copy from Amazon and it just arrived. By just randomly flipping through some of the pages, I can see that his written English is indeed excellent.

The blurb on the flaps of the dust jacket includes a passage that reads as follows:


Imagine that! How wrong could he be in his interpretation if he was already teaching the book at Peking University in the early '50s?

BTW, it also mentions that he now lives in the United States with his family.


[Edited at 2013-04-24 02:07 GMT]

Zhoudan wrote:

当年学文科的回国，好像都没什么好“下场”。