If you meant that as an explanation of shill-like behaviour, then I don't buy it.
But it was perfect as an explanation of a principle that a good shill or troll can use to maximize the effect of spending a small amount of energy.
Cheers,
Ben
MSN.com sabotaging Opera
- (marlowe)
- (46)
- Feb. 5, 2003, 04:48:36 PM EST
Hey deSitter, still think they've "changed"?
-NT
- (mmoffitt)
- Feb. 5, 2003, 06:50:51 PM EST
Whoop more MS nonsense
- (orion)
- Feb. 5, 2003, 10:53:57 PM EST
what else is new
- (SpiceWare)
- (5)
- Feb. 5, 2003, 11:44:17 PM EST
Works for me.
- (admin)
- (4)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 10:29:43 AM EST
interesting
- (SpiceWare)
- (3)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 11:53:02 AM EST
This is a long standing Microsoft technique
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (2)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 02:16:35 PM EST
a huge market Microsoft dearly wants to dominate.
- (folkert)
- (1)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 04:16:52 PM EST
Probably. But this one is a little special.
- (static)
- Feb. 7, 2003, 06:04:32 AM EST
So?
- (static)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 06:17:35 AM EST
Re: MSN.com sabotaging Opera
- (andread)
- (35)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 11:34:50 AM EST
Re: MSN.com sabotaging Opera
- (admin)
- (1)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 11:51:47 AM EST
Nevermind that man behind the curtain... he means NOTHING...
- (folkert)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 04:12:57 PM EST
Shill shill shill shill shill shill shill shill shill shill!
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 03:50:24 PM EST
Oops - ignore this one
-NT
- (ben_tilly)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 08:01:09 PM EST
You are a little short on reading comprehension?
- (ben_tilly)
- (30)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 08:00:33 PM EST
One More Time
- (andread)
- (29)
- Feb. 7, 2003, 05:22:29 PM EST
Opera 7.0 identifies itself as *compatible* with IE 6.0
- (admin)
- Feb. 7, 2003, 05:37:55 PM EST
What Scott said.
- (static)
- Feb. 7, 2003, 07:36:04 PM EST
And you still claim you're not shill-ing for MS? Bah!
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- (26)
- Feb. 8, 2003, 06:24:51 PM EST
Grandiose Delusions
- (andread)
- (25)
- Feb. 9, 2003, 08:30:21 AM EST
I'll give you a good reason to care about us
- (ben_tilly)
- (24)
- Feb. 9, 2003, 09:50:47 AM EST
Re: I'll give you a good reason to care about us
- (andread)
- (23)
- Feb. 9, 2003, 01:49:50 PM EST
and it wouldnt be the same without ya
-NT
- (boxley)
- Feb. 9, 2003, 02:06:01 PM EST
Do you have direct control of a webserver?
- (folkert)
- Feb. 9, 2003, 02:33:27 PM EST
Agent string
- (kmself)
- (11)
- Feb. 9, 2003, 03:26:52 PM EST
Heh. You called him "Andrea". Andy doesn't like that. ;-)
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- Feb. 9, 2003, 04:02:09 PM EST
Re: Agent string
- (jb4)
- (9)
- Feb. 11, 2003, 02:08:22 PM EST
Check the TWiki
- (drewk)
- Feb. 11, 2003, 03:09:02 PM EST
Just understand--some sites will break...
- (tseliot)
- (7)
- Feb. 11, 2003, 04:34:05 PM EST
Changing the string doesn't break sites....
- (kmself)
- (6)
- Feb. 12, 2003, 01:28:21 AM EST
Uh...yeah.
- (tseliot)
- (5)
- Feb. 12, 2003, 12:26:58 PM EST
Lemme guess... Educational??
- (folkert)
- (2)
- Feb. 12, 2003, 02:10:06 PM EST
Buh...not educational.
- (tseliot)
- (1)
- Feb. 12, 2003, 03:27:20 PM EST
No...
- (folkert)
- Feb. 12, 2003, 04:18:23 PM EST
Microsoft is boiling the frogs again....
- (kmself)
- (1)
- Feb. 15, 2003, 02:46:33 AM EST
Re: Microsoft is boiling the frogs again....
- (jake123)
- Feb. 15, 2003, 02:11:31 PM EST
Misunderstandings repeated
- (ben_tilly)
- (8)
- Feb. 9, 2003, 05:11:24 PM EST
Feh - what's to say other than Andrea Dear *is* Squidley?
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- Feb. 9, 2003, 06:04:56 PM EST
Re: Misunderstandings repeated
- (andread)
- (6)
- Feb. 10, 2003, 12:49:12 PM EST
Did you ever follow the link above?
- (ben_tilly)
- (5)
- Feb. 10, 2003, 01:58:20 PM EST
ICLRPD (new thread)
- (drewk)
- Feb. 10, 2003, 02:14:06 PM EST
Signs? What signs?!?
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- Feb. 10, 2003, 04:09:57 PM EST
Sorry Ben I'm not Buying in
- (andread)
- (2)
- Feb. 11, 2003, 09:45:27 AM EST
DOH! but... but... but...
- (folkert)
- Feb. 11, 2003, 09:59:36 AM EST
Ironically informative
- (ben_tilly)
- Feb. 11, 2003, 10:14:01 PM EST
Easy enough to do
- (orion)
- Feb. 6, 2003, 10:55:59 PM EST