Why do they do it?

[12elliemellie]

Why do some posters continually post up cut and paste articles without offering any comment or thought of their own?

[azureline**]

Do you really want to know what they are thinking?

[cherry*135]

Maybe they don't have a thought of their own and/ or are easily influenced  by others? (if you are referring to the political claptrap that is c&p and posted frequently).

[latina4621]

Ditto to what am-3 said.

[12elliemellie]

Look, there's another one just popped up (http://community.ebay.com.au/topic/Community-Spirit/Gillard-Rewards-Judas/500162953)

Maybe they think this is the only site we ever look at or we can't read/find things for ourselves?  Or is that being too generous?

[j*oono]

They are working on the theory that if you throw enough mud, some will stick.

[freakiness]

Look, there's another one just popped up (http://community.ebay.com.au/topic/Community-Spirit/Gillard-Rewards-Judas/500162953)

Maybe they think this is the only site we ever look at or we can't read/find things for ourselves?  Or is that being too generous?

No, they've been told to post as many links as possible so that these stories fill the front of the search result pages, giving the impression that there are hundreds of people telling the same story.  If hundreds of journos are reporting the same thing it must be true. 

[kengillard]

:^O:^O:^O

[crystal-gems]

They do it because they are under the illusion that  most ebayers' only source of news is from CS.

Hmmmmm........  then again, maybe they are right.

[not_an_eloi]

cut and pastes = post other people's words = gets 'em past ebay's board usage rules = coward act