Majority of "is this a scam?" posts are scams

Shocking, I know.

You've probably seen a lot of them recently.

They usually get downvoted, but many responses and therefore the algorithm still shows them to people.

Anything that gets consistent attention online, good or bad, will eventually be taken advantage of.

There are three primary reasons someone might make posts like these:

1. Shilling
2. Farming
3. FUDing

Shilling:

Post:

Is [project A] a scam?

'Organic' comments:

"No way, because ______"

Pay for upd00ts ($10 ~100 d00ts), control the narrative, shill shit to noobs.

Farming

Post:

Did I get scammed?

[insert sap story and farm sympathy d00ts and maybe even donations if you're good enough]

FUDing

Choose target and repeat steps from shilling but replace "no way" with "yes way", probably still shill shit somewhere.

OR

Write up some wall or text explaining how you lost your crypto in an impossible way to spread general FUD about crypto and web3 (looking at the Davos crowd).

I'm not saying nobody ever gets scammed or hacked.

I've lost crypto before.

I'm not even saying all of the posts are BS.

But I am certain that a majority of them are motivated.

They're either scams or noise.

Just saying.