fake posts/profiles.......could it be?

[NurseGrace 509]

Ok...

Maybe im crazy...ive only been here a few weeks but in starting to catch on to some stuff. Are some of these post just to get business going??

You ALWAYS have to be aware of incognito advertising. I do not know for a fact that it goes on very much on this website or not, but lots of companies hire people to do nothing but make profiles on different sites around the internet indistinguishable from a real one, to say positive things about themselves. There is not usually anything site administrators can do about this because its hard to verify but there are some things you can look for to maybe be able to start to tell if this is going on or if you are suspicious of a particular post.

If a person is giving a RAVE review with litterally not a single critisism, and it doesn't seem balanced at all, that is something that MIGHT be a red flag that it COULD be someone working in that office trying to create some online hype. You have to be careful though, because thats not always the case, and a lot of bariatric patients have a tendency to be really hot or really cold so it might just be a patient who is "in love" (ie, FRESH post op, havent got their bill yet, havent had a lot of pain yet) so its something to consider.

Something else to think about is if someone is constantly relating posts back to a PRODUCT. Now, if someone is asking about Protein and someone tells them their favorite Protein that is reasonable, I am talking more about people who seem to go out of their way to mention a product when its somewhat off-topic or even completely out of left field.