{"id":1950,"date":"2005-02-10T22:59:14","date_gmt":"2005-02-11T03:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2005-02-10T23:00:28","modified_gmt":"2005-02-11T04:00:28","slug":"when-astroturfing-a-blog-dont-do-it-from-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/10\/when-astroturfing-a-blog-dont-do-it-from-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"When astroturfing a blog, don’t do it from the office …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, the Grocery Gateway\/Longo’s<\/a> buyout debacle<\/a>. I thought it was but a distant memory until I received this comment<\/a> to the blog. Here it is, in its raw, uncommented, unedited form:<\/p>\n

Author : Bob C (IP: 206.186.239.130 , mail.longos.com)
\nE-mail : mephistopholes_826@hotmail.com
\nURL :
\nWhois : http:\/\/ws.arin.net\/cgi-bin\/whois.pl?queryinput=206.186.239.130
\nComment:
\nI have been ordering from Grocery Gateway throughout the entire mess, and they have really improved. Finally I can get all that I need, on time, and in reasonably good condition. What they need is to carry all the products on Longos stores (Longos is excellent) and debit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Look at the posting address: 206.186.239.130<\/a>, aka mail.longos.com<\/a>. Yeah, that’d be a Longo’s employee trying to be teh smrt d00d<\/em> and pretending to be a loyal, and above all not-in-any-way-related-to-Longo’s, customer.<\/p>\n

Jings, what do corporate lackeys have for brains these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Longo’s shoot themselves in the foot by pretending to be loyal customer commenting on my blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1795,1796],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-grocery_gateway","tag-longos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-vs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}