She’s been worried sick about it all day yesterday too. Really didn’t like people using that site. Now its cynicism about their motives for reopening, opinion innocently how the donors will be upset with them, and acting like they might not even get it.
Not sure what the angle is.
The angle is that Cupertino has come out anti-RFA/pro-gay and the community relations folks finally have their marching orders. It’s happened on more than one website recently. All you have to do is check posting histories, especially for folks who primarily respond to specific technology subject matter.
For example, on another website I frequent, there have been several posters who don’t really comment on much other than tech threads, and they always have the same opinion (at least when it comes to companies with fruit on their labels). Some of them have been posting for years that way, and we’ve begun jokingly referring to them as the “shills.” They say just enough about the actual topic of the website to fit in, but the conversation always comes back to their favorite topic pretty quickly. Then, all of a sudden, a certain CEO declared gay jihad, and the shills have started aggressively attacking traditional marriage, RFAs, the works.
Now, I have no way of knowing if these people are just obsessive fans, or if they are paid marketers. But I don’t think it really matters... their behavior would be the same either way. It actually is reminiscent of the communists/left in the US during WWII. While the USSR was allied with Germany, we had to keep out of it. But as soon as Germany invades, they are screaming for blood and war. It’s rather convenient timing, isn’t it?