So, according to this we have to make the conclusion all employees == shills, the same shills that got ABT blacklisted.

Logical fail? Definitely.
Agreeable: AMD employees post here. Questionable: Are some shills? Evidence: Nothing but opinion and conjecture.

Because AMD Harbored Shills at ATF got you black listed? Remember, that was the premise of your article. Yet, in the end, even that was proven wrong.

Which Shills? There was a lot of back and forth in all the threads. Are you yet agai singling out a handful of posters here? Of course you are, now provide the evidence it was THEM that got the threads locked.

Moral Compass? I'm not accusing people of anything without proof. I'm not the one crying foul and throwing a whole forum under the bus because I did something that indirectly got me black listed. Even after it was revealed to you that ATF played no role in your black listing you won't even offer an apology or look back at your accusations. And you question my moral compass? Irony guy, irony - it just keeps repeating itself in my head.

He is getting a lot of hits for his site by the personal attacks,I guess.

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I wouldn't go to such extremes. I'd hate to think people are that petty to grand stand on a forum, none the less, to make someone else's forum time worse.

It seems to boil down to now we're all open to speculation of shill-ism. I was told I was being navie if I didn't think AMD employees posted here and pushed their products. Hell, I didn't need a policy to tell me I already thought people were doing that. Now it seems almost all the policies are mirror images and, well, next time you say something favorable about your favorite company - remember, the shill-card is lurking.

Guess the good old days of just being dumb fanboys are over.