Astroturfing implies that something is not true. Not at all! Astroturfing is not about lying, it's about creating a false impression of disinterested third par

Astroturfing implies that something is not true. Not at all! Astroturfing is not about lying, it's about creating a false impression of disinterested third party opinions, when the whole thing is controlled by an interested party. This site straddles the line. They're not hiding their MS affiliation, but they're not drawing attention to it either. The suggestion is that there's this cute emo girl who wanders the halls of Microsoft because she just loves being around guys like this. Let's face it, having a girl like this be fascinated with the details of our work probably ranks pretty high on (male, heterosexual) hacker fantasies. And that was the whole point. Furthermore the probably astroturfed comments also give us a false impression that other people think MS developers are pretty rad.