Fiscal Responsibility and Voices from Beyond
First, you really have to be careful what you type. As a result of mentioning coconuts the other day I now have a coconut hangover. This has been playing in my head ever since … put the lime in the coconut and … STOP!
Anyway, in a shocking display of fiscal irresponsibility Druid has gone and done it. She finally snapped and purchased the Orb of Deception. Admittedly she’s wanted it for a long time, but after the whole 30,000 gold for the Vial of the Sands mats thing I had said, that’s it no more spending. She said it was such a deal she couldn’t pass it up.
And I do have to admit she changed into a lovely Forsaken. There she is trading cookie recipes with a guard. I don’t know what her problem is, she has totally filled one of her bags with devices that allow her to change into someone or something else. She must be having some sort of Druid identity crisis.
Anyway, I was reading my spam, and yes I actually read most of it. It entertains me. Most of it’s boring praise which is kinda a big giveaway that it’s spam. Stuff like this:
very useful content. thanks.
please keep the good and creative ideas coming
these kind of articles really help me.
great articles and stylish website
congratulations for the good work
Yeah right, that just proves you didn’t read it. Then you have the somewhat more creative spammers. The ones that insult you, I don’t know how they think that will work but at least they’re trying. I’ll give them a C+ for being inventive and not going the whole, “good job” route.
i’m sorry but i think you should improve the organization of the website.
Well so do I but it’s very unlikely to happen, thanks for your advice.
You need to really control the responses at this website
ROTFL!! I know, because all of my commenters are so out of control!
Once in a while you get a carrot cake, and once in a while you get a … I don’t know … something. I think this might be a communique from the Old Gods. I’m still trying to decipher it. I’ll have to go to the Stormwind Library and see if I can find some books that might help me translate it. Maybe you can help.
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I’m kind of stumped at the moment. What the hell IS accession capital anyway? And don’t you even THINK about touching my augment!
July 19, 2012 at 10:06 am
Hahah, oh yes, the long weird messages that are saying nothing using a lot of words. I think they come to be by being run through translating programs over and over from chinese or something and you’ll get these odd messages, although that one I think likes what you wrote. I have received some that tries to argue with my posts in that same convoluted way. I get a lot of fun out of reading those as well.
July 19, 2012 at 10:18 am
Oh spooky, I was commenting on your blog while you were commenting on mine!
I know, when I check my spam I get all excited when I have a lot, hoping for funny ones. Still waiting for another really good recipe like the carrot cake but nothing so far!
July 19, 2012 at 10:22 am
That last message is classic. That other one about controlling the responses… I mean, what the hell?? As if spam isn’t bad enough, does it have to be rude? At least the other stuff is just nongenuine niceties….
July 19, 2012 at 10:29 am
I thought that control one was funny in that I WAS controlling responses by deleting it lol!
When I don’t get any interesting search terms I have to rely on spam and once in a while there are a few good ones!
July 19, 2012 at 10:59 am
Those spam messages about “these articles really help me” are hilarious on posts where all I posted was a single picture, lol.
July 19, 2012 at 11:01 am
I know! And I always wonder, do they really think this works? I can’t imagine anyone allowing their comments except for other spammer’s sites.
July 19, 2012 at 11:53 am
It is the height of fiscal responsibility to buy an Orb. My goblin financial advisor ran some numbers for me, and the cost/benefit analysis of potions of illusion versus a one-time orb purchase means the orb is a far better deal. You are wise, Tome.
On the spammer comment, I too was fascinated yesterday but the damn near perfect syntax–it almost got me–something about stories, etc., and then it showed its true bot colors. Stupidly ingenius!
July 19, 2012 at 12:49 pm
Oh! I never thought of that! So buying it was actually a very frugal thing to do! Druid will be pleased.
There have been a few that actually tricked me at first. Just scanning it I saw words like ninja, drop, etc. So they were clever enough to use game terms.
July 19, 2012 at 1:21 pm
How dare the gremlins insult our responses! We need to fetch the pitchforks and the coconut crabs right this second to form a mob.
Also I’m sure “I will likely be subscribing to your augment” really translates as something faintly obscene.
July 19, 2012 at 2:03 pm
I know! Let loose the coconut crabs! And what do they mean, as if I’ve had anything augmented, really, how dare they!
July 19, 2012 at 6:44 pm
I just observerd. In that first pic, you have nearly 100k. Weren’t you telling me you were broke?
(and no, I don’t think that’s necessarily a lot of gold, just making an observation)
July 19, 2012 at 7:34 pm
Ancient you are so BUSTED!
July 19, 2012 at 7:47 pm
LOL! And you are so plotzed!
July 20, 2012 at 8:26 am
I divide it by six. Bank alt has to dole out the money to six Alliance characters, although Cat gets more than her share. What I’d like is for each one to have 100k, then we’d be living!
July 20, 2012 at 2:49 pm
So that’s your collective wealth then? Still…I know folks that don’t have a quarter of that across a dozen 80′s. lol
July 20, 2012 at 1:23 am
The spambots that really make me roll my eyes are the ones that tell me I should be bolding and italicizing more key terms for the benefit of search engine optimization. As a reader, I would be very annoyed by such a conceit, and unless other aspects of the blog were very, very good, it would likely turn me away from continuing to read that blog altogether.
Poneria does something similar with colours, but she’s one of the rare very very good ones who can actually pull something like that off and have it truly enhance her posts instead of detracting from them.
July 20, 2012 at 7:05 am
Haven’t had one of those yet. I keep waiting for someone to tell me to stop shouting in caps, but since it’s the way I actually talk I can’t help it, lol!