Posted: 12/26/2004 8:52 PM
Post subject: Just helping a friend.
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Highness
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Joined: 8/24/2004
Posts: 2562
Location: Sweden
http://www.rochas.se/prowebblajv/?owner=yaaniz Please click that link in order to help my friend get some free service. I suppose this is just some bullshit for an online community, but I decided to help her out anyways. All you have to do is to click that link and then when the loading is done, just shut down the web browser or continue to surf where ever you want. This ain't spywares and such shit. I've already looked for that. So this is completly safe. Thanks for your help.
Posted: 12/26/2004 9:03 PM
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Bisqwit
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This isn't the right place for advertisements. None of these forums.
Posted: 12/26/2004 11:06 PM
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Highness
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Joined: 8/24/2004
Posts: 2562
Location: Sweden
Well.. I didn't think of it as an advertiser since this doesn't tell anyone to buy or sign up for anything. Feel free to remove it if you feel it's annoying or what ever anyways. You're the boss around here and I won't complain so. :) I just thought I'd give it a try and being a nice guy towards that girl. :)
Posted: 12/26/2004 11:32 PM
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Bisqwit
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Things that resemble this case: - asking people to go to a site and vote for something they don't know - asking people in irc to do "/msg bisqwit hello" - asking people for a shell and then using it for flooding & DDoS Common with each of the examples: - it's nearly no effort for fulfill the request - the people don't know what they are doing - only irresponsible people answer the request - herding I don't want to encourage this, no matter how "good cause" it is - at least with things explained as little as that was.
Posted: 12/27/2004 1:29 AM
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Highness
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Joined: 8/24/2004
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Location: Sweden
Ok. I fully respect these argumentations. I thought that it woulden't harm no one though. It helps my friend to win a contest where the user with the most clicked link winns a free upgrade to enhance the community experience for her. I don't have much knowledge about it as I don't hang out on that community. But I know many people using it. I suppose it could somewhat be concidered as SPAM if someone flooded around it. So thats why I thought it would be OK to post it in the off-topic board. Because it's not a forced reading. If the topic doesn't seem atractive enough, people won't look. Maby my topic selection wasn't that swell. I could write a more detailed one. But I like to use somewhat a headline of what I'm creating the topic for. In this case I'm helping my friend enhancing her account on a community. Since I blindly thought that everyone could help out without doubting me or stuff like that, I posted the link. Since I concider you as my friends I thought this to be even more OK. I would not start up a spam-chain-letter to everyone just like that and send it to people I never talk to. As I said I wanted to give people a chance and not just crowd their inboxes and shit like that, as I hate that alot my self. But one message on a forum like this woulden't hurt I thought. I don't suppose that I can explain more now. I can just say that I'm sorry and I hope I haven't caused any trouble to anyone.
Posted: 12/27/2004 1:39 AM
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VIPer7
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Joined: 10/17/2004
Posts: 226
Location: Bonn, Germany
Noooo you wasted precious 10 seconds of my life!!!! :( Seriously, that's a strange community, if it requires you to spam other people :S Or is it just one of these "games", where you gain points by making other people click your link? (usually these games have rules that it's forbidden to post the link in boards or chatrooms...)
Posted: 12/27/2004 1:40 AM
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Bisqwit
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There's no reason for me to favor your sister over any other random user/participant of that particular service. Perhaps I'm wrong, but when there isn't clearly a reason to favor someone particularly, I don't favor anyone. I may do separate favors as a social gesture, and I hope everyone else do them too, randomly, but when one particular person/target is being advertised to a bigger group, the odds are no longer balanced. Therefore I choose to not participate. Sorry if the above text is confusing - I tried to generalize my opinion to apply all kinds of favors.
Posted: 12/27/2004 1:42 AM
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Quietust
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Joined: 7/14/2004
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VIPer7 wrote:
Seriously, that's a strange community, if it requires you to spam other people
I believe that is what we, in the real world, call a Pyramid Scam. In this case, you're not wasting actual money, just sacrificing email addresses (which will subsequently be sold to spammers).
* Quietust, QMT Productions P.S. If you don't get this note, let me know and I'll write you another
Posted: 12/27/2004 1:49 AM
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Highness
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Joined: 8/24/2004
Posts: 2562
Location: Sweden
Well.. I haven't seen any rules from that community so I woulden't know. I more thought of it as a gift to her. Like I post her link on a forum and perhaps I make her happy. There is no need to sign up on anything. There is no need to fill in any emails. The only thing that is checked (I suppose) is the IP. Or perhaps they upload a cookie or something. But that woulden't be harmful I suppose. And people that are too paranoid are blocking cookies anyways and will get a popup saying that it blocked a cookie or what ever. It seems like a dumb creation from the community how ever to allow that sort of thing. Perhaps they woulden't know that links are being posted like this all over the internet. Anyways.. This is not about them. It's about me not having a brain enough to calculate this out on my own. ;) I think I should sleep some. Perhaps that would help. I've been awake for 48 hours almost. It's not an excuse though. :)