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I'm fairly certain that all of the regular posters are unique, consistent personalities. It would be incredibly difficult for a single person to pretend to be multiple personalities.
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No one said that it was a single employee posting...
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And I'm quite sure that Boris is not an eDGe employee posing as a user since he's too conspicuous (he's just a guy who likes his eDGe device and has a lot of free time on his hands).
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I don't really feel comfortable going into speculation regarding individual posters, but there is the strategy of "hiding in plain sight" to take into account. So being "too obvious" is not necessarily evidence.
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Moreover, often times the advice in the "should I buy an eDGe"-type posts is not completely positive.
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From some posters it is always completely positive. Again, no one is saying that everyone in the forum is compromised.
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On the other hand, I have a hard time seeing how it would be cost-effective for some sort of viral marketing to have more than one person working on it...Anyone reading these forums is obviously already aware of the eDGe, so trolling the forums posing as users would have limited potential return.
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How much time does it take to post a comment? It's not like this is YouTube or Rotten Tomatoes, there's about one post per hour on these forums. It wouldn't cost them much to have multiple posters working damage control in response to dangerously critical customers in the forum. Hey, they could even have an employee post a sarcastic "this again?" post in response to someone who (correctly) accuses them of violating GPL.