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I'm not sure what astro-turfing is, but I'm pretty sure its not. I don't have a blog, but I figured that I'd share this with you guys anyways. Hence the first p
by vistafromubuntu 18y ago
I'm not sure what astro-turfing is, but I'm pretty sure its not. I don't have a blog, but I figured that I'd share this with you guys anyways. Hence the first post on a new blog.
- dfranke 18y agoThe term comes by analogy to "grassroots". Astroturfing is marketing that pretends to be grassroots but isn't.
- ajross 18y agoThe suspicion comes from the fact that you created a brand new account on hacker news to post a link to a brand new blog, both named after the single post on that blog. All of this just to troll a stale platform flame war (I mean, seriously: "linux won't work with my wireless card" ... that's the best you could come up with?)