MrCharisma
Club Legend
It's weird and creepy that this PopTech dude "pops" out of nowhere as soon as he is mentioned. Was there a link to his site or what?
Yes, it's very weird to have a yank astroturfer post on an AFL forum. And I'm not being facetious.
As well as the the anti global warming/marijuana astrotufing, he used to have some anti firefox webpage called firefox myths, where he used the same tactics:
"Andrew of populartechnology.net is Andrew K of Optimize Guides.
His pages were all anti-Firefox, anti-open-source software and anti-Linux.
I was involved with many arguments with him, partly because I thought his post were motivated by a political bias rather than an objective assessment of the merits of open source software, but mostly because I was angry with his use of sock puppets to basically spam his pages without admitting authorship and to post comments in support of himself."http://ipka.wordpress.com/2011/05/1...et-by-andrew-khan/?relatedposts_exclude=10756
"Rather than a balanced analysis of some of the folklore surrounding Firefox, it is merely a stream of weak arguments against imaginary “myths” supported by misquoting or deliberate misreading of sources.
I’m not even going to reference the page. If you really want to find it, I’m sure you can. It’s by someone called Andrew K on a site that seems to have a lot of other stuff about Windows 2000 and XP." http://archive.is/TWUS2
This from Asa Dotzler's blog ( Firefox developer):
Some scumbag over at a site calling itself Firefox Myths has quoted me as saying that his site is "good stuff." Well he's simply lying.Don't give that jerk any more traffic, this is just to let those of you who may have already seen the quote know that it wasn't his site that I was complimenting. As a matter of fact, what I was calling "good stuff" was a post that trashed him and his bogus claims. Oh, he calls himself Andrew K and apparently uses other names to troll the blogs in support of his bullshit."http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2006/01/scum.html
This is a very small slice of the pie, the shit on this guy is endless. This isn't the behaviour of some guy posting his opinions on a forum in his spare time. His motivations for posting on this site should be questioned by everyone here, regardless of what side of this debate you're on.