Originally Posted by
agarose2000
I'm not a BD-lover by any means, but also not a hater.
I've been on the forums for at least 3 years now.
I have made MANY calls for legitimate references to unquestionably "shill" posts that BD has put up.
NOBODY has delivered. Somebody previously put up 5 links, and after reading thru them (they were quite entertaining, actually), it was obvious to me that on the 6th page of controversy on each post, the person was clearly not a shill - any "shill" would have ducked out long, long before that point.
The beauty of astroturfing is that it can't be "unquestionably" proven without some serious investigative work. What we
do know is that BD Mike
has admitted that some over-enthusiastic employees did some shilling on another forum. Again, given Mike's apparent basic inability to speak without gross exaggerations, I'm not convinced it was an isolated incident. We also know that a BF member claims to have been solicited to provide positive reviews and that numerous oddly similar "reviews" have been repeatedly posted under various n00bie IDs.
Draw your own conclusions... or not.