NSFE training transcripts that I definitely did not make up at all.

Hello, and welcome to Amazon Forum Mod Training, day 3!

I see you all have your computers on, that’s good. Now everyone look to your right. That thing attached to the wire? That’s called a “mouse,” nobody knows why. It works like this, click click. Neat right? OK now you all try. Click click, good!

The mouse is used to pick which post you are responding to. Move the mouse until the little arrow thingy is pointing at the post and then, just like we practiced, click click! So easy.

Now look in front of you. That board-like thing with all the scary looking buttons is called a “keyboard,” genius name. Good news, you don’t need most of those buttons, so you can forget about them. The important ones are the “control” key, the “V” and “C” keys. Everything else is for nerds. The control key just says “ctrl” because the manufacturers are cheap and didn’t want to spend the ink, not like Amazon at all.

I’m sure you all remember from our session yesterday on “engagement,” the important thing about posts is that they have responses. Posts with no responses means low engagement on the forum, which means we all get fired, and I’m not gonna let you noobz pull me down, so we need to make sure there are enough responses on the forum.

When someone posts and you need to make sure there is a response, don’t waste time reading some rando whiner’s petty problems about losing all their money or whatever, just drag the mouse from the top of the question down to the bottom, this is called “highlighting”. Don’t worry if you miss parts, it probably isn’t important.

Then it gets tricky, because this is where the keyboard comes in. Without clicking the mouse, press and hold the control key, then cress the C key. Then let go of both. This copies everything you have highlighted. Don’t ask how that works, I don’t know. Something to do with magnets, I think.

Then click on the second screen where we have our cutting edge Amazon AI tool permanently locked open. If you try to close it there is an electric shock built into your chair, so unless you want 5,000 volts in the keyster, I don’t suggest it. Once the pointy thing is blinking in the AI screen, hold control but this time, press the V key. I know C looks like V on it’s side, but they really are different so don’t confuse them. This will copy the highlighted stuff into the AI without ever having to read it. So efficient.

The AI will think for just a few moments because it’s really smart, then it will tell you the best, and only possibly correct response to the seller’s post. Remember to call them sellers in the posts, we only call them fleshy ATM’s in internal communications. Then you reverse the process, copying the AI response onto the forum and racking up those sweet engagement metrics.

I know it sounds complicated, but you all lied convincingly about your skills on your resumes so I’m sure you can handle it, or at least fake it for a while. Just keep in mind that the main point here is engagement so get those posts up. It’s not like anyone is gonna read this stuff anyway.

OK, let’s break into groups and practice this for a while, and then after lunch we will move on to the next engagement tool, Posting Sophomoric Questions to Make Amazon Sound Good.

Tell me I’m wrong.

Trainee: Sir, if it is to copy and paste, why is it Ctrl C and Ctrl V? Shouldn’t it be Ctrl P to paste?

*Traineer: Funny isn’t it. The people, because there was no AI yet, who wrote the code were lazy and liked being able to cut and paste without having to move their finger very far. So lazy.

*Trainer misspelled on purpose. They were a trainee last week.

Surely, you jest - which would be hilarious if it didn’t smack so closely to the facts on the ground.

Mnny_Amazon’s 021225 discussion (edited, slightly, on 021126) “[Process Update] - Reporting Product Reviews” @ https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/a9a6200a-7df7-4bb8-8b48-dc2926031da5 has been linked to in the SAS before (link), and various members of the FMT-CMT have linked it in the NSFE over the ensuing 16 months; here’s a reproduction of the portion of that thread applicable to yet another AI hallucination that’s subsequently occurred with a more-recent post by Aria_Amazon, which itself is reproduced below this:

Manny’s embedded “Customer Service” link, found at (‘broken’ for Discourse display) https: //www.amazon.com/hz/contact-us/foresight/hubgateway, leads here:

Which is indeed the correct URL for the Buyer-side ‘Contact Us’ Home/Landing page; navigating there will in fact allow one to proceed through Manny’s step-by-step Product Review-reporting process.

On 061026, Aria made this reply to another NSFE discussion:

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/20d63524-bbe0-45d3-902a-2b06fb586346?postId=a48f7ba6-3cb1-4c20-94c3-4c1721a99306

For comparison w/ Manny’s tut, here’s the applicable portion of her post:

Aria’s embedded “Customer Service” link is this (again, ‘broken’):

https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/support

Which is NOT the correct URL for the Buyer-side ‘Contact Us’ Home/Landing page; navigating there will NOT in fact allow one to proceed through Manny’s step-by-step Product Review-reporting process, as that’s not a current function of Seller Support.

Hey, Andy - how’s that feverishly-fervid embrace of Artificial Idiocy workin’ out fer ya, pal?

These things seem to bunch in clusters; just saw yet another of Xander’s malformed URLs in another post referencing Manny’s tutorial, from 060826:

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/1bed7c0f-3c97-4b48-9e50-f648852d6f4d?postId=336b947d-3446-40cf-b550-5a2e43477278

Xander’s link leads only to the NSFE’s Home/Landing page - because it lacks a Discussion ID, which in this case is “a9a6200a-7df7-4bb8-8b48-dc2926031da5” - rather than to Manny’s 021225 tut.

This is the link, ‘broken’ for Discourse display between the two superfluous Reverse Solidi (aka 'Backslash, the "" symbol) & the trailing Solidus (Diagonal Slash/Forward Slash/Oblique/Stroke, etc, - the "/"symbol) & again between the scheme/protocol & the pathname, that the AI supplied for Xander’s post; as we see, it has no Discussion ID included in the URL:

\ [Process Update - Reporting Product Reviews \ ]( https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/process-update-reporting-product-reviews /

The correct URL of course includes the Discussion ID “a9a6200a-7df7-4bb8-8b48-dc2926031da5” as the final part of the pathname (again, ‘broken’):

https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/a9a6200a-7df7-4bb8-8b48-dc2926031da5


What’s that they say - misattributed to Dr. Einstein (Albert, not Hermann) - about the definition of insanity?