That’s interesting. I must not have noticed them until now. My immediate suspicion is that we’re being astroturfed, but it’s hard to say. I’ve only got this message to go by, and I don’t see any obvious ulterior motives, but astroturf accounts often start by making posts unrelated to their ultimate agenda and attempting to establish group membership.
That’s all speculation on my part. I haven’t been a “staunch follower since the beginning of Boing Boing” but I have been a regular visitor since 2002 or 2003, but I didn’t really bother becoming involved in the discussion until relatively recently so someone could level the same accusations against me apart from the fact that my overall theme isn’t disappointment in the site. As others have pointed out, if this person is a long-term follower what about this post in particular gave pushed them to speak? Where were they last week when we had basically an unobfuscated Target commercial posted?
