wuquater
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- Jan 1, 2013
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What WF does adapt the "Delphi" technique to an online forum, to influence behavior and condition an audience (in this case, the newbie WH marketers). Using the Delphi tactic you assemble a set of 'experts' who all espouse the same point of view, or back each other up pushing the target view, yet the format is superficially made to look like a "discussion" where an open and informative atmosphere exists. The desired outcome of this disguised shill echo chamber is to make and shape a market for the target viewpoint as the most reasonable and informed way to look at things, and intimidate or marginalize people who might hold, or want to advocate another view.
You see this method used at public hearings all the time, where a panel is assembled to 'discuss' an unpopular proposed project, yet almost every panelist is an authority shilling for the thing, while real opposing views are restricted to short questions from the audience, if that is allowed at all. Afterwards the organizers of the dog and pony show can say "we held hearings and heard from the public," to justify going ahead with the project despite wide opposition. And think about the news media, who carpet bombed the public with claims about Iraqs's WMD or Saddam's alleged ties to Al Qaeda in the run up to the Iraq war ten years ago. One pro-war expert after another was paraded before the cameras or quoted in stories, without also providing similar time for Mideast commentators with an opposing perspective.
The OP noticed the Delphi-ing of a mailing list discussion, and saw how fast a dissenting opinion can be erased when it interrupted the narrative being shaped by that forum (a shill may have even started the thread in order to set-up getting ridiculed by the other participants). This example shows the WF circle jerk is not aimless, it is oriented towards conditioning readers into buying more services from the hyped up IM stars or gurus featured there.
straight to the point. I doubt that it could be described better than this.
I am a member on WF. As i was new to this IM business, i found WF and i was overwhelmed by the information i get there. After a couple of weeks i started to doubt on the wsos first. Luckily i have never bought a WSO so i haven't wasted money. What i did was searching the wsos on google with with keyword "free" attached to the search string. That lead me to BHW. In the first couple of days BHW was for me a free place to get all wsos i wanted. I realised that i was wrong after taking time to look at different sections here. Since then i've never downloaded anything but only read. I am glad i've found BHW. I really like it here. Shortly WF has led me to BHW