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Q: What is a wu mao?
I've seen the term a few times on the internet now. Apparently they are like supporters of the Communist Party. But is there anything else about them? Did they hurt someone's feelings?
12 years 2 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
The Chinese government supposedly pays people to go onto internet forums and comment pages and post pro-chinese messages. For this the poster is paid .5 yuan, or wu mao. I can't say for sue whether or not this really happens. On the one hand, the idea of paying somebody to piss off some guy in Akron, Ohio on an internet message board seems a little difficult to believe, but on the other hand its not like China doesn't have a surplus of cheap labor.
GuilinRaf:
From the Glossary of ChinaSMACK:
[wǔ máo dǎng / wu3 mao2 dang3]
noun.
People who are allegedly and secretly paid five mao (50 cents RMB) per post/comment that praises, supports, or defends from criticism/attack the country, government, or Communist Party. Netizens who are very nationalistic are often accused of being part of the “50 cent party” spreading propaganda or “guiding” public opinion.
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kchur:
They mostly post on Chinese language forums, in China, with the intent of derailing a conversation on a topic that could potentially be sensitive, even if it hasn't gotten sensitive enough yet for the mods to deal with. They work in mass and use a lot of hype and patriotic slogans mostly just with the intention of raising emotions through the roof, causing a lot of confusion and spam, keeping things fast moving, all with the goal preventing any type of clear dialog, rather than necessarily trying to convince anyone of anything. On chinese forums they are very easy to spot because they swarm, create dozens of accounts just for one particular thread, and a lot of what they post is copied and pasted, with ten-fifty different people posting the same or almost the same thing (generally, something like "if you disagree with me you are a foreign culture-obsessed traitor, and America is actually a pit of chaos full of internal conflict" even if it has nothing to do with America. Almost all copied and pasted.).
There are a few English-speaking ones, but they mostly stick to China-related stories in international news outlets. We had a few here last year, but the English-speaking ones don't have the numbers to really do what they do to Chinese sites. Generally when they hit English sites they pretend to be "America New York man, so hate America, so ashamed"..
I asked this like three weeks ago man type in wu mao and you will get the answer you want.
Tapwater:
Apparently the search doesn't work very well. I did that exact thing and didn't get your question.
