Journal Astroturf_Alert's Journal: Nominations 15
If you would like to nominate (or accuse) some user of astroturfing, reply here.
If you are here because you were accused unfairly, feel free to post your defense here, as well.
Some guidelines:
- Don't nominate ordinary trolls
- Don't nominate someone just because they post a pro-Company or partisan political comment, or even a series of them. We're looking for people who exhibit a pattern of behavior, not a particular point of view.
- It's possible to be an astroturfer without even knowing it. You may be one yourself. It's a gray area, since the line between guerilla marketing and simply defending something you like is often hard to place.
I'd like to nominate an entire article. (Score:2)
Re:I'd like to nominate an entire article. (Score:2)
He probably refered directly to a comment, but somehow it seems to be missing from his current comment.
If his own comment was marked troll/flame, it's probably deleted if he was refering to an older story.
I'm not sure if this project is going to work though.. Pretty hard to spot astroturfers.
I'm working for IBM, but my comments are my own, and every time I defend an opinion or accuse something, like in my signature, I usually state I'm work
Re:I'd like to nominate an entire article. (Score:2)
Truly asinine (Score:2)
I was a shill all this time, and didn't even know it. Think it's too late to fill out an application at 1 Microsoft Way and turn it into a paid gig?
That's not astroturfing (Score:2)
Wikipedia sums it up t
Re:That's not astroturfing (Score:2)
"GET THE FACTS" (Score:2)
http://slashdot.org/~GET%20THE%20FACTS [slashdot.org]!
Re:"GET THE FACTS" (Score:2)
Ah, Slashcode. Didn't like the bang in the username.
Here is a link. [slashdot.org]