Why facts are called as astroturfing? I don't get it. If i write a glowing post about posterous then will i become anti Tumblr.Don't you agree that Posterous has more supporters here in HN? Is it not a bias?
You created two different hacker news accounts to post two stories from a brand new blog. Why the different hn accounts?
Why the brand new, all anti-posterous blog?
I'm no posterous fan but this reeks of astroturfing.
From wikipedia:
"Astroturfing denotes political, advertising, or public relations campaigns that are formally planned by an organization, but are disguised as spontaneous, popular "grassroots" behavior. The term refers to AstroTurf, a brand of synthetic carpeting designed to look like natural grass.
The goal of such campaigns is to disguise the efforts of a political or commercial entity as an independent public reaction to some political entity—a politician, political group, product, service or event. Astroturfers attempt to orchestrate the actions of apparently diverse and geographically distributed individuals, by both overt ("outreach", "awareness", etc.) and covert (disinformation) means. Astroturfing may be undertaken by an individual promoting a personal agenda, or highly organized professional groups with money from large corporations, unions, non-profits, or activist organizations. Very often, the efforts are conducted by political consultants who also specialize in opposition research. Beneficiaries are not "grass root" campaigners but distant organizations that orchestrate such campaigns."
Hiding ( poorly ) behind two newly created hn accounts just smells.
[+] [-] spooneybarger|15 years ago|reply
i smell astroturfing.
[+] [-] stratospark|15 years ago|reply
[+] [-] techfact|15 years ago|reply
[+] [-] spooneybarger|15 years ago|reply
I'm no posterous fan but this reeks of astroturfing.
From wikipedia:
"Astroturfing denotes political, advertising, or public relations campaigns that are formally planned by an organization, but are disguised as spontaneous, popular "grassroots" behavior. The term refers to AstroTurf, a brand of synthetic carpeting designed to look like natural grass. The goal of such campaigns is to disguise the efforts of a political or commercial entity as an independent public reaction to some political entity—a politician, political group, product, service or event. Astroturfers attempt to orchestrate the actions of apparently diverse and geographically distributed individuals, by both overt ("outreach", "awareness", etc.) and covert (disinformation) means. Astroturfing may be undertaken by an individual promoting a personal agenda, or highly organized professional groups with money from large corporations, unions, non-profits, or activist organizations. Very often, the efforts are conducted by political consultants who also specialize in opposition research. Beneficiaries are not "grass root" campaigners but distant organizations that orchestrate such campaigns."
Hiding ( poorly ) behind two newly created hn accounts just smells.