August 18, 2004

Astroturf Gone Wrong. When astroturfing the sites of bloggers who offer opinions about your employer, best not to make it too obvious.
posted by rodgerd 20 years ago
  • I have to say, Ticketek's site is utter pants. I tried to buy tickets for the NZ-Australia netball game a month or two ago, and a search for "netball" brought up music concerts, basketball, and a boat show.
  • c.f: Warner Brothers astro-turfing the same mp3 blog that they just donated an mp3 to. "This track is amazing!! Thanks for letting us listen to it!! I never heard these guys before, but theyre awesome. I went to their website and you can listen to a lot of ther other stuff, very cool andvery good!
  • Good lord, that's pathetic. You'd think they'd let m4r just host the stuff and sit back and shut up, without needing to astroturf. I reckon in most cases it's some delusional but well-intentioned low-level employee. Which doesn't make it okay.
  • Yeah, Ticketek's website is bad. The only actual bad experience I had with it though was trying to get tickets for the Ashes last time around.
  • *receives fifty bucks from Ticketek employee for saying something even vaguely nice about them*
  • Astroturfing? That's a new one by me.
  • I'm thinking...when is astroturfing done right? When I don't notice it I guess, but the whole concept is annoying (I'g gullible enough as it is).
  • For those unfamiliar with the insidious and cowardly practice of astroturfing, here is some background info. Though, "pants" and "netball" are totally new to me. **grabs handful of fresh, clean dates; lovingly stuffs them into mouth
  • "pants" - some weird Brit saying, I think, meaning, essentially, "craptacular". "netball" - women in short skirts chasing a ball around in the middle of winter, but throwing, not kicking or whacking said ball.
  • Netballer.
  • Arse.
  • My favorite sport (it's not what you think)! For my birthday, I want the T-shirt (scroll down).