Astroturfing the Forums?

[MacLawyer]

Perhaps it's my suspicious mind, but here is what I noticed. The same handful of users with hidden account details always seems to downvote anything in the way of good news about Apple. Could these be posts by people hired by Apple competitors? Only the MacRumor Forum gods know for sure. ?

 

[velocityg4]

It’s just people with nothing better to do. Or one really obsessed hater with multiple accounts.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Perhaps it's my suspicious mind, but here is what I noticed. The same handful of users with hidden account details always seems to downvote anything in the way of good news about Apple. Could these be posts by people hired by Apple competitors? Only the MacRumor Forum gods know for sure. ?

It's the work of one person (Elon Musk). The MR staff has had an ongoing problem with him registering multiple accounts to bash Apple, especially in the car threads.

 

[arn]

Anything’s possible but there are enough anti Apple people, not sure you have to invoke astroturfing as an explanation