Earlier this week, a poster with the name "mistysilver" made a large post on Reddit claiming that "reputation managers" were being paid by the software giant Microsoft to post positively about the upcoming Xbox One console.

The post said Microsoft employees were voting down any negative comments and voting up or adding pro-Xbox One comments across the popular social news site. In the post, (which has since been taken down), Silver introduced himself by sayingWhile at Microsoft, the poster says he saw an employeeMicrosoft was quick to deny the story , sayingAs mentioned, after the denial, mistysilver's post was removed.