MysteriousPreacher's Journal: Pyramid schemes and fake sigs

Okay, it was annoying enough when people were whoring their sigs out so they could get a free iPod or free iMac. At least you could go to your preferences and chose to hide sigs.

Now, there is new approach. Simply manually paste a sig in to each post. This means that the normal sig blocking will not stop the advert getting through. Not only that, but they have two adverts (it's not just one free thing they want), and a link to a Wired article full of glowing testimonials.

Here's an example.

sig whore

oh yes

[FidelCatsro]

hahaha I was about to post an entry on the same thing , god damm doth this cause me to get narky.
I also today noticed an anon coward was mentioning it
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=14183 2 &thr eshold=0&commentsort=0&tid=95&tid=17&mode=thread&p id=11886133#11886176
wonder who one of those could have been ;)

"And i belive in a slashdot where people who turn off sigs to avoid advertising crap dont have it forced down our gobs by people with fake sigs."

I would of posted as me

Re:oh yes

[MysteriousPreacher]

Heh heh. Bad night of sleep combined with knowing I've a busy day drove me to it.

I thought about it for some time but at the moment, I've got karma to burn.

I found something else interesting. Someone has created an account where these people are listed as foes. I think the idea is that you add yourself as a friend of this account and then the people using these sneaky adverts will be modded down as being foes of a friend.

No more free stuff [slashdot.org]

Hey, thanks for visiting the journal :-)

Re:oh yes

[FidelCatsro]

heh no problem , just returing the favour ;) plus this really does piss me off
I hate pyramid schemes , especialy ones like this. Imay mark that as freind as honestly i doubt slashdot will do burger all about it.

ps: that burger is not a typ-o , Whilst in cambridge last week for the holiday , i shouted out in the middle of a shop "Son of a bitch" and got a large crowd staring at me ,so i quickly said " I mean puppys" , rather silly as i forgot i was not in germany

Re:oh yes

[MysteriousPreacher]

LOL. That sounds like the situation you see in films where a white guy walks in to a bar in Harlem and the music and the balls on the pool table stop.

Re:oh yes

[FidelCatsro]

hahah close enough , a large loud Scotsman in a rather posh southern English store , i did expect some monicals to fall out

Re:oh yes

[MysteriousPreacher]

I hope some said "Well I never!"

Thanks to Mel Gibson, every Englishman lives in fear of the Scots.

Personally I live in fear because, while waiting at an airport, I sat opposite a couple of Scots who proved that they were wearing their kilts in the traditional way. Put me right off my sandwich that did.

Re:oh yes

[FidelCatsro]

hahahahahahahhah shudder , I hope it wasnt a Sausage sandwhich

Re:oh yes

[MysteriousPreacher]

Damn you sir. You just brought back a terrible memory for me.

Can't remember what was in the sandwich. All I remember is seeing something in the corner of my eye looking at me and then just staring at my sandwich for the next 10 minutes until it was safe to look up again.

Re:oh yes

[FidelCatsro]

This is probably why the police are carrying MP5s now , it isnt to stop terrorist but to threaten those who wear no pants under the kilts , although i do think it could also be good if a terrorist hijacks your plane , all you need to do is give him a quick flash of your weapon. ..... ok now i have a scary( or should that be scar-ing) mental image

Re:LINUX USERS

[MysteriousPreacher]

Wow Queef, I'm important enough for trolls to come visiting my journal.

For someone with a rich rewarding life, you sure seem to spend a lot of your time posting semi-literate gibberish on Slashdot. Are you a eunuch or something? Seriously, I'm listening.