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Pedantic musing: > Shill > One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle. Is it "shilli
by keawade 5y ago
Pedantic musing:
> Shill
> One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle.
Is it "shilling" if you're a project manager recommending your product? He doesn't appear to be posing as anything other than a Microsoft employee working on the Edge team.
- beebeepka 5y agoNow I am interested to learn how would you describe it!
- hn_version_0023 5y agoYou've missed the 2nd definition of shill: shill verb: 2 : to act as a spokesperson or promoter "the eminent Shakespearean producer … is now shilling for a brokerage house" — Andy Rooney shill noun: 1b : one who makes a sales pitch or serves as a promoter https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shill https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shill If you're going to choose to be pedantic, it helps to read the entire definition, and not just paste in the top result from DDG's "define shill"
- lowbloodsugar 5y agoPretty sure that to be a shill, your relationship to the thing being promoted has to be hidden. We don't refer to marketing folks as shills. Parasites maybe, badum-ching.
- mediocregopher 5y agoI refer to anyone trying to get me to use a particular product as "shilling", including marketing folks.
- hn_version_0023 5y agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shill#note-1 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shill#note-1 "Someone who shills today may very well be employed to simply extol the wonders of legitimate products." Of course it does go on to say that originally its use was in service of a con, so secrecy is most definitely implied. Good stuff... I love little pedantic asides! And... parasites, most definitely.
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- akira2501 5y agoIf you're just injecting yourself and your product into other peoples conversations without invitation, then you are probably shilling.