Jimbo visits Denison University, the co-eds seem to have loved him Options

[thekohser]

Jimmy Wales visits campus.

The girls titter about how great he was, and (according to the comments) many thanks to:

University Programming Council, the Spectrum Series, Communication Department and the Entrepreneurship Club

University Programming Council (UPC) the Spectrum Series, Communication Department and the Entrepreneurship Club

the University Programming Council, the Spectrum Series, the Entrepreneurship Club, and the Communication Department

UPC, the Spectrum Series, the Communication department, and the Entrepreneurship club

[Somey]

Is that normal, for students to post nearly-identical pre-programmed comments on collegiate campus newsblogs, within minutes of each other? Why they would even bother? Unless their scholarships are dependent on the number of comments their blogs get, I can't figure it. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/hmmm.gif)

I mean, sure, college kids these days aren't like they were when I was in college - back then we didn't have the internet, we just had campus newspapers, and of course space was limited so the editors wouldn't print letters to the editor (or whatever) if they were essentially identical to some other letter to the editor. They would choose the best one and then add a bit at the top indicating that the letter was "typical of the responses received."

I guess now they figure there are no space limitations, so why not just crap-flood the comments sections... but I just think it looks creepy, like these people are victims of some sort of mass brainwashing.