It strikes me as intellectual laziness to dismiss a story out of hand because someone you don't know (Betteridge) has pontificated about headlines at some point.
Look at microsoft's massive track record for doing this, Google the keywords "evangelism is war" and form your own opinion.
This is retarded. An 'RM' campaign as they call it, the way they are doing it, would be worthless on Reddit. It's a website made up of millions of users. /r/gaming has 3,244,936 subscribers as of writing this. A few guys sitting in a room down voting stuff, like the anonymous source claims to have seen, would be like a few guys standing in a river trying to form a damn.
And the people at Microsoft aren't utterly stupid. Why would they hire such an amateur PR firm that was so flippant with campaigns to manipulate other websites.
I'm not saying an RM campaign is ridiculous, I'm quite sure they, like most big companies are doing one. I'm just also quite sure that the guy this article is using as a source is completely full of shit.
Given microsoft's track record, I wouldn't put it past them. To microsoft, evangelism is war waged aggressively. If microsoft's scroogled campaign makes no sense to you, it's understandable why you would be puzzled by this.
Lol... so some random contractor was on campus and saw someone browsing reddit upvoting/downvoting. I'm sure Linux guys are doing the same thing Pro-Linux and Anti-Windows but the difference is nobody is lurking in their backyard spying saying 'Some neckbeard is being open-sourced to make positive comments about Linux on reddit!'.
It's just some random guy on reddit at work who happens to drink the Microsoft koolaid.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 42.2 ms ] threadLook at microsoft's massive track record for doing this, Google the keywords "evangelism is war" and form your own opinion.
And the people at Microsoft aren't utterly stupid. Why would they hire such an amateur PR firm that was so flippant with campaigns to manipulate other websites.
This entire article is laughably ridiculous.
It's just some random guy on reddit at work who happens to drink the Microsoft koolaid.