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Originally Posted by 4X4
Woah woah woah... I don't think anyone (certainly not me, and I know Nik is a good guy) is accusing anyone of something underhanded. There's nothing wrong with being paid. I do that every day.
My post was along the lines of this forum being sanctioned by the Flames. I used to post on their old one, before I found this one. Nobody cares if someone is getting paid, just that it starts to sound like the guys on 960 that refuse to actually criticize the Flames.
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If the forum was sponsored by the Flames, it'd say "Sponsored by the Flames".
Pretending to hold a position arrived at naturally while being paid to hold that position behind the scenes is called astroturfing, and it's underhanded because it isn't up front and honest. Being accused of astroturfing is being accused of being underhanded.
If my job was a social media manager for the Flames and it was my job to post positive things about them, my title would say so.