Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote: > > Yes, 3 people who help FLOSS observed the same thing in Digg and told me about > this a few days ago. I received E-mails complaining about what seems like > astroturfers or just Microsoft partners. It's systematic. In fact, quite a few > of the trolls you know from COLA have moved to ./ and Digg as well (they > admitted this), for smears, burying, manipulation, and spin. And speaking > of /., I have been told that all the vile and homophobic languages they use > there (not to mention links to gross pictures) are intended to have it > blacklisted by filters and ignored by important readers like diplomats. This > sounds just like the thing they do here in COLA. There's a lot more to say > about this, but it's a long story. Even Groklaw gets 'infected' by Microsoft > partners. Even BN. Considering sites like slashdot and digg are for-profit ventures, it would be a risky proposition doing something like you describe. If it could be proven, it would open the perpetrators to serious civil action for attempted interference of commerce and loss of business. It would certainly be an entire different ballgame than trolling on COLA. I tend to be skeptical of these sorts of thing, but who knows, I've heard of crazier astroturfing campaigns. Thad -- Yeah, I drank the Open Source cool-aid... Unlike the other brand, it had all the ingredients on the label.