LinuxToday Editor Apologizes For Astroturfing

Thanks to Dean Pannell (and Paul Ferris for the initial head's up) for pointing out the apology and statement of fact from Kevin Reichard, the Executive Editor of LinuxToday. I think the argument that people would know that "George Tirebiter" was merely a contrivance is weak, but whatever. You can read the previous stories in the astroturf ^[?] ing saga.

Comments

Re:Has anyone at SLASHDOT ever ASTROTURFED?

[CommanderTaco]

i've NEVER astroturfed here! "Watch a forum all day"? Remember, we don't even read our own site! Bunch of stupid linux zealots... cut your hair, lose the sandals and get real jobs, ya hippies.

-- CmdrTaco

As if a /. editor has ANY room to talk

[gamorck]

I guess its okay for the /. editors to mod a post pointing out their flaws down into the nine realm of hell - but its bad that this LT guy astroturfed?

Im sorry - thats just BS. You people ought to check up on what happened with the string of articles last time /. went down (the OSDN router outage thing). /. editors were modding down anti slashdot posts LEFT AND FUCKING RIGHT to -1 within seconds of their posting.

A good example would be what will happen to this post within around 45 seconds from the time it hits the article. It'll be down to -1 and my karma will keep on sliding down down down.... (Im already at -5, can it get any lower?)

Gam
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