I'm on to you and ur gafstroturfing.
Were those actual viral marketers or just fanboys?
Hmm, s'like you only partially read what I said
If they create their own domain, it won't take long to figure out something is a miss "Imnotashill.com is registered to X company... and so is imalsonotashill.com and anyone who has them is posting pro-microsoft!"
That said e-mails aren't the only thing that ties them. In general, they're looking at behavior like derailing threads, if a person is a pro X posting in every thread, but then goes into pro Y thread to talk bad about Y, etc.
The surest way to not get banned, don't be an over the top overt fanboy. It's really that simple. If what you post in any way comes to "X is better than Y in every way" it's just best not to post it.
Wouldn't be surprised to find out Samsung had paid GAF shills too, there's no way some those people aren't getting paid for it, it's impossible to like any company's products that much.
edit: also there are a few Microsoft employees that roam these parts, hope they don't get banned because of their email. They are upfront on who they work for and sometimes give out useful info.
It's pretty cheap to get email accounts that aren't tied to their PR domain. All it takes is a cheap webhosting domain and bang, you have legit emails from imnotashill.com instead of iamashill.com.
On the other hand, we always see a lot of shilling accusations hurled at simple fanboys.
Speedy isnt one of them, hes just some kid.
Has already happened unfortunately :/
Is there a "I'm a junior but not a marketer support group?"
I'm basically getting the impression to not post until a week after E3.
This stuff can seem scary to new posters, but the mod team here generally has sound judgment. Post with reason and a balanced head and you will be fine.Is there a "I'm a junior but not a marketer support group?"
I'm basically getting the impression to not post until a week after E3.
This is the first time i've really thought about the no-free-email, account approval signup process. kudos gaf, kudos.
This stuff can seem scary to new posters, but the mod team here generally has sound judgment. Post with reason and a balanced head and you will be fine.
I feel like I'm in The Thing
Is there a "I'm a junior but not a marketer support group?"
I'm basically getting the impression to not post until a week after E3.
Andrex had a small list yesterday:
This stuff can seem scary to new posters, but the mod team here generally has sound judgment. Post with reason and a balanced head and you will be fine.
I hate it even if it's obvious. I don't know advertisers on my GAF, or anything else, when the site isn't being paid for them and the advertiser isn't being honest about it. I really do think that people making coherent-sounding justifications for stuff like the Xbox DRM stuff does change the discussion. No reason at all for them to be here if it can be helped.I certainly can see why this stuff bothers EviLore and the staff but it really doesn't bother me. I guess I'm used to just ignoring people with obvious agendas.
this is the thing that make me like sony instead of ms years ago.
anything you read can be fake.from reviews to forum members
Yeah, they do good work. I was more referring to the fact that I've been here for almost three years and I'm struggling to hit 150 posts.
Kind of ironic since he's always on about Google. =PAndrex had a small list yesterday:
Haha I remember the Tomb Raider threads. Too obvious man.
If Microsoft can't buy NeoGAF with shiny games next Monday, they will do their damnedest to destroy GAF from within via astroturfing.
You'd think they wouldn't care considering they didn't design their new console FOR us but for publishers instead... and yet the astroturfers were out in full force yesterday.
Andrex had a small list yesterday:
No, there was one Junior who just seemed to keep posting from the official MS pr and nothing else
Don't kid yourself into thinking Sony, Nintendo, etc. aren't doing this too.