Microsoft Shill Busted Commenting in Blogs
Roy Schestowitz
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Paid Microsoft AstroTurfer Strikes Boycott Novell
“It could be argued that Microsoft’s unethical Technology Evangelism (TE)
practices are “old news”—i.e., that Microsoft stopped using these questionable
TE practices long ago. This is very unlikely to be the case, for at least
three reasons.”
–James Plamondon, former Microsoft shill (aka ‘Technology Evangelist’)
Summary: Microsoft shill Jonathan Wong travels the Web to defend Microsoft
WE RARELY bother to check who is leaving comments in Boycott Novell, but
moments ago someone left a comment to police the image of Bing. It took him
only a couple of hours to find the post. A quick glance at his blog shows that
the about page says absolutely nothing about his job at Microsoft, but a
little more sniffing reveals the “evangelist” tag (the blog is all about
Microsoft, which is the top tag). Looking deeper inside the posts, we find
only this one post from 2008 where Wong writes: “And since Monday, I have
started a new and exciting role with Microsoft as part of their Developer and
Platform Evangelism Team in Singapore.”
“Neither the blog nor the E-mail address (or even the comments) say anything
about his job at Microsoft.”Nice disclosure there, eh?
Neither the blog nor the E-mail address (or even the comments) say anything
about his job at Microsoft. In fact, he leaves comments with a GMail address
and one common theme among Microsoft “TEs” is that “Google is evil” (Jonathan
Wong’s blog shows it too, explicitly). Look at the blog. Look at what he does
around the Web (e.g. regarding “Bing” alone). That’s his job as a
Microsoft "TE" (another term for AstroTurfers, whose roles are borderline
criminal). We wrote about one colleague of his last month because they are
policing individual FOSS people and even FOSS companies in that one particular
case. Wong calls all this “social media marketing”, but we call it
AstroTurfing and there are laws against it.
No wonder people who negatively review Vista 7 get attacked so viciously [1, 2,
3]. They are probably being stalked because they cover particular products to
which Microsoft assigns “perception management” [1, 2]. █
“Just keep rubbing it in, via the press, analysts, newsgroups, whatever. Make
the complete failure of the competition’s technology part of the mythology of
the computer industry.”
–Microsoft, internal document [PDF]
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Moshe Goldfarb
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> Paid Microsoft AstroTurfer Strikes Boycott Novell
Yea....
Just like you "busted" Gary Stewart........
You're a gullible idiot Roy SchesNOwitz.
Roy Schestowitz gullible idiot (for the search engines).
Erik Funkenbusch
> Paid Microsoft AstroTurfer Strikes Boycott Novell
Really? Sounds like more paranoia to me. Many Microsoft employees have
commented on your blog, and you know it.
> WE RARELY bother to check who is leaving comments in Boycott Novell
Really? I guess that explains all the red notices on everyone you don't
agree with. Rarely... That's provably false, Roy. You have irc logs that
indicate otherwise.
> ļæ½Neither the blog nor the E-mail address (or even the comments) say anything
> about his job at Microsoft.ļæ½Nice disclosure there, eh?
Really? That's odd, since I went to his blog, and the #1 item says he's a
Technology Evangelist for the largest software company in the world.
http://armchairtheorist.com/about/
Yeah, no disclosure at all.
You have such great detective skills, Roy. Oooooh.
Do you really believe nobody will actually fact check what you have to say
Roy?
Erik Funkenbusch
Oh, I see... You disabled comments on the story on BN, because you didn't
want anyone to point out the facts to thost that don't bother to check up
on you.
Real honest there Roy.
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wrote on behalf of Half Wits from Micoshaft Appil Department of Marketing:
>> Paid Microsoft AstroTurfer Strikes Boycott Novell
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> Really? Sounds like more paranoia to me. Many Microsoft employees have
> commented on your blog, and you know it.
Don't you have somd defragging to do on your
windump PC?
Sounds like you are paranoid about something
and write very nervously.
Do you blog like this all day and forget
to mention your employment status with micoshaft
corporation?
Moshe Goldfarb
Roy Schestowitz is a classic narcissist and *yes* he *does*
believe that he is above everyone else and that people won't
bother to check his sources and "facts".
He really does.
He has comments turned off on that story BTW.
I guess even Schestowitz knows when he has screwed up really
bad.
Moshe Goldfarb
Roy Schestowitz honest?
Yea....
Like a used car salesman.
Moshe Goldfarb
SchesNOwitz is the paranoid one around here.
He thinks Microsoft is lurking behind every post and every one
of Linux's failures.
DFS
> Paid Microsoft AstroTurfer Strikes Boycott Novell
You're a paranoid loser, Spamowitz.
'Boycott Novell' is a sham laughingstock joke of a website. It's not taken
seriously by anyone except a handful of like-minded Linux dweebs. When's
the last time Novell contacted you to discuss anything? That's what I
thought.
You actually accept money to run Microsoft ads on the site - what kind of
pathetic fraud does that?
nessuno
under rocks, out of the woodwork, they're everywhere.
Hadron
What a load of rambling, paranoid nonsense. It makes zero sense.
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Moshe Goldfarb
Ok everybody it's sing a long with Moshe time !!!!
All together now!!!!
Schestowitz, Schestowitz, he's our man
If anyone can do it Schestowitz can!
Schestowitz Schestowitz he's our man
Mr. Roy Schestowitz, the Queen of the SPAM.
His BN site is under attack once again.
His latest tactic is to disable comments on his more accusatory
threads, IOW the ones in which he has absolutely no verifiable
proof to back up his statements.
The guy is a sham.
Schestowitz, the flim-flam man !
Moshe Goldfarb
> Roy Schestowitz <newsg...@schestowitz.com> writes:
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>> Paid Microsoft AstroTurfer Strikes Boycott Novell
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> What a load of rambling, paranoid nonsense. It makes zero sense.
Exactly.
Roy Schestowitz has so much "proof" of this tale that he
disabled comments on his site wrt to this topic post.
The guy is a flim-flam man.
Roy Schestowitz
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> You must have hit a sore nerve. The trolls are crawling out from
> under rocks, out of the woodwork, they're everywhere.
Heh. I've just seen that in Google Groups. It means it's on the right topic.
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> ____/ nessuno on Thursday 16 July 2009 15:11 : \____
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>> You must have hit a sore nerve. The trolls are crawling out from
>> under rocks, out of the woodwork, they're everywhere.
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> Heh. I've just seen that in Google Groups. It means it's on the right
> topic.
You run and hide from any challenges to your idiocy, then check Google
Groups to see who responds.
Why can't you debate your stupidity?
Moshe Goldfarb
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> ____/ nessuno on Thursday 16 July 2009 15:11 : \____
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>> You must have hit a sore nerve. The trolls are crawling out from
>> under rocks, out of the woodwork, they're everywhere.
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> Heh. I've just seen that in Google Groups. It means it's on the right topic.
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So if I SPAM a topic like Obama is The Anti-Christ and people
come out of the wood work to make fun of me, like they are doing
to you Roy Schestowitz, it means I am on the right topic.
You're an idiot Roy Schestowitz and I can't imagine how the hell
you ever got through school, especially a sciences program, with
twisted reasoning like you have.
Moshe Goldfarb
Because he keeps losing :)
He's also gaming the comment system on his BN site.
Especially the ratings.
Sometimes when you click on his posts and give them a bad
rating, the counter goes up but the rating will stay the same.
This never happens if you give him a good rating.
This only happens with Schestowitz's own posts and not all the
time.
He's gaming his own site because he doesn't want to feel the
heat.