Comments on: Microsoft Wants War: Starts Blatantly Attacking Critics with Cowardly Attacks via Employers

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:50:17 +0000

Is this the story again of the guy who told a Microsoft representative that he wanted a free sample (zune?) article and if het would not get one het would write a negative article on Microsoft ?

People like that should be fired

By: G. Michaels

G. Michaels — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:59:41 +0000

I guarantee you’ll get your evidence soon enough.

As I have continually asked your hero, I would eat my crow and like it if I were *ever* shown a *single* shred of evidence that Eeevil Microsoft is now or has ever specifically targeted him or any of you in any way, shape or form.

Isn’t it fascinating that none of you can come up with something like that? A request so simple, considering the fact that all of you make those claims a central part of your decidedly unpalatable advocacy efforts? Roy’s nymshifter friend from Slashdot has the exact same problem. It’s uncanny, really.

And David. Please understand that I don’t dislike you personally. I think you are a rather bright and intelligent person. In reality I consider you a symptom of the disease that affects Wikipedia, nothing more. Perhaps I was a bit overboard there, so I was actually going to offer a belated apology until I saw your response. I don’t know what kind of problem you might have on Slashdot, but I’m sure you’ll be disappointed to learn that I didn’t even know you had an account there until tonight when I went looking for it. I’m not sure what kind of comments you’re referring to, and I wouldn’t care to speculate on who is posting them, but I wouldn’t be surprised that someone over there would insult or attack you, given how much disruption and bad blood people like you have wreaked on Wikipedia. But the idiotic “oh you see how they’re after me” cop-out in the style of BoycottBoy and twitter and his whole cadre I honestly did not expect from you.

Sorry for the lag here, by the way. Apparently Microsoft doesn’t pay me enough to post during the week, so it’s only Sundays once the kid has been put to bed. I should really ask for more money

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:04:21 +0000

G. Michaels and his ilk are simple there to make noise and try It looks like it to drag others down to his level and forget the topic in favor of sqwabbling.

In review, it looks like it was a smear, after all:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/chief-information-officer-is-quietly-reinstated/?hp

By: Eruaran

Eruaran — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:09:58 +0000

If G. Michaels wants evidence, I suggest he risk his own job (if he even works in IT at all) rather than expect others to risk theirs to flatter his ego.

Go on then, get to it. Promote FOSS, give people a real choice, put it in your advertising, openly criticise Microsoft in publicly available material.

I guarantee you’ll get your evidence soon enough.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:42:42 +0000

He’s here only to cause trouble. It’s a vandal.

By: G. Morons

G. Morons — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:54:57 +0000

G. Michaels, you’re a moron.

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:50:09 +0000

And this echoes Slashdot comments. Looks like I’m on the radar. w00t!

By: G. Michaels

G. Michaels — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:30:44 +0000

David Gerard. What a rare pleasure. A rare pleasure indeed. Still canvassing wannabe sysops to pay for play at AxD? Oh, no. No, you’re past that now, of course. How silly of me. ArbCom and all that, the hollowed halls of power and beyond. Haven’t seen your user page in a while, I assume you’re still flaunting your princely powers there? The go-getter behind the throne of Wales, lots of name dropping, WP:THIS and WP:THAT, inside jokes about the cabal and so on. What a hoot, as always. Making sure one of the most precious resources in the history of humanity is well stuffed with bureaucratic idiocy and petty power struggles – because that’s what makes us feel superior to the unwashed masses, eh?

As for track record, of course. No need for accuracy when you are Right (TM) and the evildoers have a track record. How silly of me.

But anyhoo, fancy seeing you here, although not entirely surprising given the kind of company BoycottBoy keeps. I should stop by one of these days and say hi, look over what they’re deleting, what guidelines they’re rewriting to help the non-existent cabals (how are those Israel articles doing, btw… Slim and Jayjg still pounding away or did they manage to finally obliterate everyone?), who’s being lovingly shafted by ArbCom, when are we getting the next Essjay, etc. Anyway, I really should stop by. It’s been a while. Well, best regards as always.

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:16:41 +0000

G. Michaels – as listed in the links, they have a track record.

(A G. Michaels comment? This article wins a point.)

And to think this is the sort of behaviour Scientology is better known for.

By: G. Michaels

G. Michaels — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:00:16 +0000

So… you have no proof of this. None whatsoever?

And of course your “readers” are sure up there in the credibility index.