I think he's conflating "astroturfing" with "trolling". Astroturfing has come to mean paid advocacy in the guise of grass-roots advocacy, in hopes of the advoc

I think he's conflating "astroturfing" with "trolling". Astroturfing has come to mean paid advocacy in the guise of grass-roots advocacy, in hopes of the advocacy assuming the crediblity of mere enthusiastic advocacy. Trolling used to mean posting blatantly, fabulously wrong information in the hopes of getting some smarty-pants know-it-all to refute the wrong information in such a way as to reveal the smarty-pants' own personality flaws.