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Quick note on spam

It's no good replying to spam messages, because your words of wisdom are deleted when I remove the entire thread.

what if you miss it?

are you saying that you read every new thread?

if a spam thread sparks a conversation, will you still delete it? or would you split it out? is it really that big a travesty if your post gets deleted?

these are just some of the questions i have

I don't miss anything.

I read everything. Some things I read too fast.

I won't delete a spam thread if it sparks an interesting conversation.

My general feeling is that everything ought to remain around as long as possible.

Bring me more questions, I am not afraid.

Are the spam posts posted by an actual registered person?

Can we go to his house and beat him up and give him an atomic wedgie and dangle him out the window by his ankles? Oh, and drink his beer and order pay-per-view on his TV? I know I'm forgetting something...

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Bring me more questions, I am not afraid.

Hey lj!

Give him the quiz! :lol:!

edit: Yeah, I edited it. So what?

Every time a piece of spam is sent, I ban the registered address and hard-delete the thread. They come from different IP addresses, although a bunch of them come from 59.177.*.* (Geolocation says this is in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.)

The Undertoad loves us and looks after us. We honor The Undertoad.

Speaking of spam, Penny Arcade posted this email they supposedly received from someone today:

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Hey guys,

I interviewed for a guerilla marketing business in San Francisco that targeted web forums.

I was told that if I accepted the job, I was to have at LEAST 50 identities on as many forums as I could muster (they wanted 100 eventually), with a goal of 5 posts an hour. The posts had to be well thought out, and the idea was that I was to establish multiple identities with a history on the forums, so that when the timing was right a well written but subtly placed marketing post could be finessed in. And regular visitors would recognize the post as coming from a long time poster.

They had 12 people working there full time, and were hiring 10 more. You do the math. No wait, I'll do it for you: that's 880 posts a day (if minimum was met). However he said the better ones could do around 8 or 10 an hour. And they had different "verticals" so there was the sports guy, and the games guy, the hentai, excuse me I mean anime guy, etc.

But the most critical point was this: develop and integrate the identity. No random "HEY EB GAMES IS AWESOME BUY THIS" stuff.

Kinda spooky.

Didn't take the job. It was a fucking mill.

Like I wasn't suspicious enough before...

I can't wait to deny their IP blocks. Somebody better bust this shit wide open.

Hey, busterb told us about that power squid! You don't think...? :D

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

I can't wait to deny their IP blocks. Somebody better bust this shit wide open.

Hey, busterb told us about that power squid! You don't think...? :D

You mean he's in cahoots with the inventor that posted today. :eek:

Remember people, killing spam is your job too. That's what that little red and white triangle with the I in the middle is for. Down in the lower left corner of every post....Duh.

ROCK ON UT !!!!
YOU DE-MAN !!!!
ROCKEM, SOCKEM , BLOCKEM !!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Nice. If the coordinates get any better, there's always the predator drone option.http://www.cellar.org/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Note to federal officials. The preceding statement was intended as a joke and should not be taken to imply that I advocate using predator drones for any other purpose than killing US sanctioned evildoers and finding WMDs.

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Speaking of spam, Penny Arcade posted this email they supposedly received from someone today:

Hey guys,

I interviewed for a guerilla marketing business in San Francisco that targeted web forums..... ~snip

Like I wasn't suspicious enough before...

sounds like a good job for bigV

I love Spam, but it has to be fried.

Oh, wait...

The Momster actually used to stick a bunch of cloves in spam and bake the stuff as if it was real food. Alas for her, neither my Dad nor I were fooled for a second. My Dad would whisper to me, "I'd rather eat c-rations". We would both go into uncontrollable fits of laughter until the Momster goose stepped out of the kitchen and commanded silence among the ranks. You folks who had two American parents don't know how lucky you were. At least I had one, even if I had to eat baked spam.