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Old 07-26-2013, 07:53 AM   #46
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Am I the only one who's hungry for tacos after all this?
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Old 07-26-2013, 08:16 AM   #47
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Am I the only one who's hungry for tacos after all this?
Make it ice cream....
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Old 07-26-2013, 08:26 AM   #48
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Perhaps I'm saying Ectaco wrong in my head.
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Old 07-26-2013, 08:52 AM   #49
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This issue has made Wikipedia .... if that means anything!
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Old 07-26-2013, 09:02 AM   #50
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This issue has made Wikipedia .... if that means anything!
I don't see anything. Whereabouts in the article is it?
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Old 07-26-2013, 09:06 AM   #51
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I don't see anything. Whereabouts in the article is it?
Under "Controversy", exactly where the link targets.

Of course, this is Wikipedia...it could be gone by the time you look.
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Old 07-26-2013, 09:11 AM   #52
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This issue has made Wikipedia .... if that means anything!
It just means that someone (likely from these forums) took the opportunity to make an addition to the Wikipedia page. Nothing exciting. The upside it that more people are aware. The downside is that it sounds like an invitation for lawyers.
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Under "Controversy", exactly where the link targets.

Of course, this is Wikipedia...it could be gone by the time you look.
I suspect it's been removed. I don't see it.
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Old 07-26-2013, 09:34 AM   #54
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I suspect it's been removed. I don't see it.
I still see it.

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On July 25th, 2013 Ectaco was revealed to have been engaging in astroturfing on the MobileRead discussion forums.[5] Over the course of several years, two Ectaco employees posed as regular consumers of Ectaco products and used their forum memberships in an attempt to drum up phony grassroot support for Ectaco and its products. This is strictly against MobileRead policy, and the forum members in question have since been banned from the MobileRead website.
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Old 07-26-2013, 09:47 AM   #55
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I suspect it's been removed. I don't see it.
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I still see it.
I see it as well. The link takes me straight to the pertinent section ("Controversy").

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On July 25th, 2013 Ectaco was revealed to have been engaging in astroturfing on the MobileRead discussion forums.[5] Over the course of several years, two Ectaco employees posed as regular consumers of Ectaco products and used their forum memberships in an attempt to drum up phony grassroot support for Ectaco and its products. This is strictly against MobileRead policy, and the forum members in question have since been banned from the MobileRead website.
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Old 07-26-2013, 10:23 AM   #56
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A little bit of irony? A bad reputation is better than no reputation? Google's ad in its great wisdom uses the chance and links you - quite fitting - to a ... Ectaco product.
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Old 07-26-2013, 11:38 AM   #58
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I still see it.
I see it now. That was strange; perhaps I was seeing a cached version of the page.
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I see it now. That was strange; perhaps I was seeing a cached version of the page.
Probably, I expect Wikipedia uses some type of CDN so it make take a bit of time for links to propogate proxies and stuff. Many good web devs use the internet as their cache... it is very effective and reduces your bandwidth quite a bit.

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I see it now. That was strange; perhaps I was seeing a cached version of the page.
You got to see it just in time, Harry. It's been removed by contributor "DanBrown00", citing "No sufficient evidence has been provided of accusations."
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