I guess you're right. I haven't actually tried to figure out which accounts on here are farmed. I had assumed that account farmers would be using scripts but perhaps you're correct that they're doing things "the old-fashoned way".
Very interesting this all. And for me a lot of new vocabulary to learn (english is not my first language)
Account farmer! Never heard it before, but i understand exactly what it means
Today i found a farmed account, because he wrote a post behind me! (I believe not without a reason...)
I was wondering about his post, so i checked the profile. I saw the recent posts and found out that he post mostly 14 times on a single day, then he is inactive for minimum two weeks or longer.
I found also out that he probably acts on more accounts in exactly the same way. That's why he s a framer.
And if i am right, then i think this person calls himself trusted escrow! I don't like this, maybe he deals with himself and give trust feedback in the same way. And I would never trust a person who spam a lot of threads from many different accounts, maybe also/only for the own success/profit.
See here what i wrote about the account and what i found out about his posting history.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=653271.msg11280915#msg11280915
And further i believe somehow, some threads with nearly the same topic or simple topics which are simple to answer, are created only to increase the post activity from users in signature campaigns, to raise the profits somehow. I saw threads, especially in newbie and meta which are created by a account, but it seems this accounts was only online to create a thread. It is strange somehow that a user ask for example, for a simple way to get bitcoin, but never is online to talk about this. The same i think about some threads where users ask for faucets...