Chapter 210 The Waste of Data Labor
Tian Ping calls himself a master of data manipulation, but in reality, he's a data worker who makes a living by artificially inflating data. Because he's relatively new to the industry, his current business is limited to artificially inflating positive reviews for Taobao stores and liking, forwarding, and commenting on accounts like "DaYan" (a popular Chinese online shopping platform).
Yesterday, he received an order, a very strange order.
The order specifically instructed him to boost the number of likes and comments on a specific account's pinned post to rank among the top twenty.
He was very excited when he saw this request. Usually, when such a request is made, it means that the owner of the account is a blogger who sells high-priced products. They will randomly select a few people from the comments to give away high-priced products. People are willing to pay these data workers to boost their data.
They can also take this opportunity to make some money. Even if the high-priced product is cosmetics, it is still worth a lot of money second-hand, which is much more profitable than fake orders.
But when he saw the account name, he felt something was wrong. When he saw the pinned post in the account, he was speechless.
Dude, is a 250g bag of braised food really worth spending tens of dollars to boost your stats? Even if its name is a bit strange and the flavor is a bit unusual, it's still not worth the price!
But since the client had paid him, and this was within his business scope, even though he couldn't understand the behavior, he diligently pushed all five comments from all three of this person's accounts into the top twenty. To be on the safe side, he even pushed it to fifteenth place, leaving a little room for it to drop.
After finishing, I opened the "Data Workers" group chat, intending to discuss this outrageous order with everyone. But as soon as I opened it, I found that someone else in the group had already made a similar statement, and this person had also received the exact same order!
"I also received this order, but the account is different from yours, although the requirements are exactly the same."
'I received it too...'
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As soon as Tian Ping posted those words, three people immediately chimed in, saying they had also received similar orders. Tian Ping's gaze silently shifted to the blog post; three people in the group were already in the top twenty, and fifteenth place seemed rather precarious!
So he did some more data manipulation, intending to get those three comments into the top twelve. After working on it for a while, he found that while the data for the three comments he was responsible for did increase, their rankings actually dropped!
I scrolled the mouse up and right-clicked to refresh the page...
The top-ranked comment had 4,800 likes and 320 comments; the second-ranked comment had 4,600 likes and 280 comments; the third had 4,100 likes and 239 comments...
It's obvious without even thinking that these figures are fabricated!
"This is outrageous!" At this moment, there are still five minutes left before the 8 PM lottery draw. In just that short time, the three comments he was responsible for dropped two places, now down to eighteenth, and about to fall out of the top twenty!
What others do is none of my business, but the three comments I'm responsible for must be in the top twenty! Otherwise, I'll work hard all day and not even get a few dozen yuan!
Five minutes usually feels short, but these five minutes felt incredibly long. Just a second before Tian Ping's finger cramped, the time on the computer finally changed from 7:59 to 8:00...
The three comments he was responsible for were numbered nineteen, twenty, and twenty-three...
The office on the second floor of Xu's Fast Food Restaurant No. 2.
Because this event was related to a series of subsequent matters for Taobao Store, Xu An attached great importance to it. After dinner, he specially rushed to the store to accompany Tang Wen to collect data.
Normally, the rankings in the last ten minutes before the end are usually the final rankings. The order might change, and the last two or three might be replaced, but overall, the changes won't be too significant.
Based on this experience, Tang Wen prepared the list of winners ten minutes in advance so that she could announce it earlier, leave work earlier, and go home earlier.
But as soon as she finished organizing the list and right-clicked to refresh the page to check the latest situation, she discovered that seven people had fallen off the original list; after refreshing again, three of the seven people who had been removed had returned; after refreshing again, four people had fallen off; after refreshing again, one person had returned...
What's going on? Tang Wen turned to look at Xu An with a blank expression and found that Xu An was also looking at her with a puzzled look.
"Tang Wen, are all the final stages of lottery events this intense?" Xu An, watching the fierce competition, finally understood why he had never won any of the lottery events he had participated in and liked in his previous life.
"Ahem, usually there are changes, but not this drastic." Tang Wen could only offer a reasonable explanation based on her existing experience; otherwise, it would be difficult to explain the problem. She couldn't very well say she didn't know!
When the system's list of 140 people was released at 8 o'clock, Tang Wen quickly compiled the list of the remaining 60 people. She was stunned by the data of the top three; even some third-rate celebrity accounts didn't have as many interactions as these three. Were they major influencers?!
I clicked into their accounts and browsed around; they were all ordinary accounts with fewer than 500 followers, and their posts only received single-digit likes and comments.
Did they hire data entry bots? The thought crossed Tang Wen's mind, but she quickly dismissed it. With such a small prize, why would they need data entry bots? That would be a waste of talent!
Perhaps it's just a coincidence.
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