Summary: Sock-puppetry and trolling match the stereotype

THINGS are starting to heat up, which means we must have hit some sensitive spot/s. Is it the list of Microsoft AstroTurfers? Or is it Microsoft Moonlight?

It doesn't matter.

Anyway, for those who may be wondering, the Internet trolls are mostly Windows users (HTTP headers say so), so unless they just fake being "Windows" users, a lot of this trolling can be nicely categorised. Some Windows users even go under names like "Sabayon User" or "Gentoo User" because it makes them seem more credible. But they are Windows users, not GNU/Linux users. David "Lefty" Schlesinger, for example, is a Mac user.

Those very same people are systematically gaming the comment ratings and then make statement about those ratings. It is similar to Microsoft ploys where they got caught rigging polls against Java and against GNU/Linux. We have access to the logs, so we know exactly what's going on. ⬆