A little experience in identifying content farm text

An article transcribed from Content Farm was reported here about two months ago. In fact, when I read the title, it felt wrong. Click in to see the content, and each has a strong farm flavor. Then I googled that title, and sure enough, I found that the article was from a content farm site.

In fact, my sensitivity to content farm articles is not something that happens when I go online. In fact, I read a lot of similar articles in the early days of the Internet, and at that time, I was like a treasure: "Wow! The wisdom is famous!" It's not okay to go out there. Later, when I found out that there was a content farm, I began to actively understand what was going on with the content farm.

Those sites are content farms, and Wikipedia has a detailed list. There are also two young programmers in Hong Kong who spontaneously created an application called "Content Farm Checker". Once installed, it alerts the user to a link that may be a content farm. But if there is an author here who has copied the farm article verbatim, how can one tell the difference? In fact, there is no way. The following is an example of analysis from an article from an article named "Daily Toutiao" with annotated content farm, "Don't get along with the villain, because he can't get along with anyone;".

First look at the first sentence: "Don't get along with the villain, because he can't get along with anyone." The first sentence is almost the same as the title, which is really lazy!

Second, such articles like to use a series of contrasting sentences or haiku to create a majestic momentum to attract attention:

"Don't get along with the villain, because he can't get along with anyone;

Don't make trouble with the society, because you will make trouble;

Don't make trouble with yourself, because everything will pass;

Don't make it hard for your loved ones, because they won't let you pass;

Don't live with the past, because it has passed;

Don't live with reality, because you have to live on. "

All of the above are written in haiku. There are other articles that like to use two extremes of contrast. For example, a smart person xxx; a foolish person yyy….

Another feature of such articles is that there is no coherence between the contents. For example, a lot of the above should not be difficult with xx, because after yy, it will be inserted abruptly: ".

Be a good person, don't be a good person without principles. Friends are made with heart, and parents are filial with life. "Excuse me, what does "being a good person" have to do with the previous article about not getting along with what? Even the two sentences just quoted, "friends with heart, parents with filial piety", what does it have to do with "be a good person, don't be a good person without principles"?

Lack of coherence is a common feature of content farm articles. The reason for this is that the composition of such articles is often a shoddy creation of writers who link up the little words of the heart on the Internet.

The above is a little bit of experience that I have accumulated through researching content farms spontaneously. I hope that it can play a role in clarifying the confusion for citizens who are confused about such articles.