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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14967561 times)

Karnewarrior

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #25620 on: January 16, 2013, 01:10:10 am »

You dare speak the heathens name upon Irams holy ground? You shall be burned at the stake for this when the Iram Inquisitorial Squad hears of it!

The Namless one is a traitor to Iram and all spamtopia. His radical ideas go against the Doctrine tought to us by the great XxD1ckr4mmer_8182xX in the Deep Code, the code we hold so dear. He goes against Sell Sell Sell, and instead preaches that advertisement should be via word of mouth. Heresy! Sell Sell Sell is the only code a true beliver in Iram needs, and the only code given to us by the great XxD1ckr4mmer_8182xX. We need no posts. We need only Sell Sell Sell.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #25621 on: January 16, 2013, 01:11:43 am »

Iram always contains a link to somewhere. Not all spambots are as obvious about "New York Prom Limo" or "Orlando vacation home". No, some of them are slightly more sinister. For instance, there is Ymon.

Ymon is another series of usernames, these ones devoid of links or any hint of what purpose they serve. It begins with ymon12, then skips ahead to ymon21, ymon22, ymon23, and so on. All the way up to ymon30. Then it skips again, to ymon36, then ymon39, then ymon42. Then it continues as if nothing happened, with ymon43, ymon44, and ymon45. Then it ends.

What purpose could these numbers serve? Is there some significance in the ones that are absent? Why haven't any of them tried to sell me anything? Until they do, I can't be sure of their purpose. Will Ymon rise one day?
Remote-controlled bombs that are ready to nuke the forum with spam at moment's notice...I don't like this at all.

Probably they used a robot program to create those accounts, and the robot was crawling several different sites at once.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #25622 on: January 16, 2013, 01:13:05 am »

It's rather worrying that all those robots are smart enough to figure out this captcha:
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #25623 on: January 16, 2013, 02:25:20 am »

They are the lurking forum menace.
I thought I was the lurking forum Menace :c
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« Reply #25624 on: January 16, 2013, 02:38:51 am »

It's rather worrying that all those robots are smart enough to figure out this captcha:

They probably hire a person on the cheap to figure out the captchas. The bots send a request to the human, then put in the result.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #25625 on: January 16, 2013, 02:43:59 am »

We've had human spambots before as well. I most remember the one who went on about UFO conspiracies and threatened to report people in every other post in very broken randomly bolded English.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #25626 on: January 16, 2013, 03:07:55 am »

They probably hire a person on the cheap to figure out the captchas. The bots send a request to the human, then put in the result.
I vaguely remember that one of the known-ish techniques doesn't even require hiring someone, just having a website of some sort that people are willing to enter captchas into (forums, file hosting, porn, [fake] sweepstakes, etc. Doesn't even have to have anything on the other side of the captcha, really, just enough before it to convince someone to solve the thing.). When a bot runs into something it can't figure out on its own (and their captcha solving capabilities grow over time. I've honestly seen a few captcha bypassers that are better at the bloody things than I am.), it just sends the thing to the shill site and let's a (clueless) human do it for 'em.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #25627 on: January 16, 2013, 05:44:45 am »

Finished the Tintin movie and it had no ending.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #25628 on: January 16, 2013, 05:45:56 am »

Finished the Tintin movie and it had no ending.
That... doesn't even make any sense. How can you finish something if it never ends?
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« Reply #25629 on: January 16, 2013, 05:49:39 am »

Finished the Tintin movie and it had no ending.
That... doesn't even make any sense. How can you finish something if it never ends?

Why do you think I put it in the WTF section?
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« Reply #25630 on: January 16, 2013, 08:48:51 am »

Don't you see? Neonivek is only imagining this post and the forums. He's still there, watching the movie until his body gives out.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #25631 on: January 16, 2013, 09:27:47 am »

Don't you see? Neonivek is only imagining this post and the forums. He's still there, watching the movie until his body gives out.
It's as if Bill Murray was trapped in a theatre showing nothing but Groundhog day again and again...

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #25633 on: January 16, 2013, 12:22:13 pm »

Corpse impregnates Marmaduke.

And, who doesn't want a tattoo for their birthday?
No. No way. I refuse to believe those are real. Especially the first one.

* Sirus gags
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #25634 on: January 16, 2013, 12:24:29 pm »

Man I've heard and seen some shit. But that first one? What? That's possible? Seriously what?
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