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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OR, you as an individual are putting time and energy into defending WashU on an anonymous forum, and others are doing the same from their perspective. For every fan there is a hater, no AstroTurf required.[/quote]
PP here. I don't give a fig about WashU, and I'm totally okay with people expressing varying opinions on whatever school. If you want to, for example, criticize WashU for traditionally catering to the rich, that's fair. But posting verifiably incorrect facts does not constitute a "perspective." It's intentionally misleading and creepy.

And I don't think you've actually grasped the concept of astroturfing. The point is that it doesn't involve the exchange of several different "perspectives" (plural) from several different people. This is a single person continually expressing the same perspective as if several different people were expressing that perspective. I don't see how that does anyone any good.[/quote]

That’s not astroturfing, it’s simply sock puppeting. Im still not convinced there’s one person with a vendetta when it could well be several with distaste.

Astroturfing, is when a business tries to pass their interests off as grassroots. E.g. Tulane is secretly smearing WashU posing as parents. [/quote]

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