Someone recommended a $29 RSS reader on askme. Could they be a shill? September 2, 2005 9:14 PM   Subscribe

Does shilling for a $29 RSS-reader that "brings the news directly to you" sound a bit...well...suspicious to anyone else?
posted by Jimbob to Etiquette/Policy at 9:14 PM (5 comments total)

It smells a little shilly, but only a little.
posted by majick at 9:17 PM on September 2, 2005


He provides no link to the product and the search on the homepage he links to in his profile returns no results for FeedDemon. I'm gonna go with probably just a guy who likes the program.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 9:24 PM on September 2, 2005


Eh. His other comments don't really sound shilly.

It's intresting how many people post only answers on AskMe.
posted by delmoi at 9:30 PM on September 2, 2005


Yeah you're probably right. The fact that his answer wasn't very relevant to the question (they wanted live coverage, he told them to use RSS - most readers only retrieve new feed updates once an hour) made me suspicious.
posted by Jimbob at 9:32 PM on September 2, 2005


No, not really. Feeddemon and netnewswire both cost some money, but are good programs. I don't think it's a shill post at all, just someone saying they are good readers worth the money.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:09 PM on September 2, 2005


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