Comments on: NBA PR man admits he's anonymous commenter

Raymond Ridder, PR man for the Golden State Warriors, admits he went on the WarriorsWorld.net fan site and posted anonymous comments. He wanted the discussion to go in a "more positive direction."

[cvaldes1831]

Congratulations, you scored zero points on the integrity scale. Thank you for playing, Flunkster!

[karpenterskids]

I won't post anything positive about this article, because God forbid that it might cause others to do the same...

[tccedar]

Terrible article. Hard to follow, convoluted; tries way too hard to be cute and clever. Ugh. And who cares who Funkster is? The guy's a dork to try to hide his identity as a Warrior's employee, but big deal! It's not like he was insider trading and cost shareholders millions.

[monkeyfun14]

Who wants to bet someone will comment on here about a company totally unrelated to the article.

[gertruded]

You just don't what Microsoft brought into this subject.

[PhaseDMA]

So let me get this straight. Some guy that works for a company commented about that company in a positive way?

What shall we do? CRY!

From this day on we must enact a law. Thou shall not say anything positive about the companies they work for - Negative comments are okay and in fact encouraged though!

[wshwe]

The Warriors should fire Flunkster. What an apt name for a dishonest person!

[gertruded]

It seems as if Microsoft employees comment regularly in Microsoft's favor on this board. How may times have we read how great Visa is, or how good Windows 7 will be?

Why shouldn't people working for other corporations do the same? Honesty and truth have nothing to do with business and marketing. Only money counts.

[monkeyfun14]

Because anyone who doesn't hate Microsoft products is paid by MS?

So 90% of the computing community must be paid off right?

[benjwah]

You don't like it, go to.... Wait, there aren't any communist countries left. Wait, I just remembered, North Korea!

[EENetminder]

Knowing Warriors fans, one has to wonder if Ridder has been editing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_State_Warriors too. No mention of Cohan's ignorance or Bobby Rowell's ineptness in getting rid of Chris Mullen -- just to say that Larry Riley is the new GM.

For that matter, if you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Riley, it reads like a press release that a low-on-the-ethics-scale PR flack would write.

Sic 'em, Kawakami!! It'll annoy all those Merc readers who can't stand you!!...

[ralfthedog]

When I read about an NBA commenter posting on the internet with a fake name, I thought they might be talking about me. Then I remembered I don't have any relation to the NBA.

[baconstang]

What! OMG, you mean Microsoft isn't the only one who pays trolls?

[gertruded]

I find it very hard to believe that Microsoft would stoop so low as to actually pay people to support their view on any internet forum.

NO company is that bad. Paying people to do that could be considered dishonest.

[dcardozo]

Well, they don't call it that way.
MS pays to several people that support their view in several internet forums, including this one.
If you ask them, they don't pay people for supporting their view. They would say they pay them as regular employees.
They're hardly the only ones that do that, other companies do the same, just not as much as MS.
And of course, there's nothing illegal in doing that.

[monkeyfun14]

@dcardozo

And do you have a source?