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A few of them, yes. The rest are newly-created accounts and others (like billshander) are around 3 month old but with shady comment history. Interesting. Edit: I suppose the occam's razor explanation is that someone emailed (or twitted) the link around asking for people to show them some support in here, instead of an intricate botting conspiracy.
Yep, I checked this out and created an account because of a tweet that I got. I follow some startup CEOs. Hope you don't consider this to be a "shady" comment ;-) And yes, I am a fan of micromobs; it has been useful to me. It's kindof like campfire, but better.
I'm pretty new here (though I lurked for a like a year before creating an account), but I don't think your comment will be considered "shady". What your comment has that the others lack is, 1) actual descriptive information, and 2) an attempt to participate in the discussion.