Microsoft Has Hired People To Make Positive Comments About Xbox One On Reddit?

This is retarded. An 'RM' campaign as they call it, the way they are doing it, would be worthless on Reddit. It's a website made up of millions of users. /r/gaming has 3,244,936 subscribers as of writing this. A few guys sitting in a room down voting stuff, like the anonymous source claims to have seen, would be like a few guys standing in a river trying to form a damn.

And the people at Microsoft aren't utterly stupid. Why would they hire such an amateur PR firm that was so flippant with campaigns to manipulate other websites.

This entire article is laughably ridiculous.

Microsoft remains pathetic, and evil. On a positive note, it looks like they're heading down.

Lol... so some random contractor was on campus and saw someone browsing reddit upvoting/downvoting. I'm sure Linux guys are doing the same thing Pro-Linux and Anti-Windows but the difference is nobody is lurking in their backyard spying saying 'Some neckbeard is being open-sourced to make positive comments about Linux on reddit!'.

It's just some random guy on reddit at work who happens to drink the Microsoft koolaid.

The idea that these people work inside the Microsoft campus is hilarious.

Given microsoft's track record, I wouldn't put it past them. To microsoft, evangelism is war waged aggressively. If microsoft's scroogled campaign makes no sense to you, it's understandable why you would be puzzled by this.