Comments on: youlikeme seems to be a spammer

youlikeme seems to be a spammer

nathan_teske — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:25:48 -0800

youlikeme seems to like linking to the same site for their posts.

By: nathan_teske

nathan_teske — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:26:32 -0800

Seems a little spammy to me... new user, perfunctory posts to get them over the threshold, and then two, back-to-back posts to the same site.

By: keswick

keswick — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:28:43 -0800

BURN HIM! BURN THE ~~WITCH~~ SUSPECTED SELF-LINKER!!!

By: ooga_booga

ooga_booga — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:29:49 -0800

Gah. I missed that. Burn them.

By: SeizeTheDay

SeizeTheDay — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:31:05 -0800

Same site and same author, in two days.

By: gsteff

gsteff — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:35:23 -0800

whois says that the admin contact for sixwise.com is some guy in Deerfield, Illinois. If youlikeme's IP info matches that, I'd reccomend banning.

By: equalpants

equalpants — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:41:57 -0800

youlikeme seems to like doing the same thing at Digg, too.

By: MetaMonkey

MetaMonkey — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:42:55 -0800

Hmm

By: gsteff

gsteff — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:50:08 -0800

The author of both pieces is Brian W. Vaszily. Brian W. Vasily's wikipedia page was created by wiki user bapistacio. bapistacio@yahoo.com reviewed Brian W. Vaszily's book for bookreporter.com, claiming that "I have seen nothing but outstanding reviews for this little masterpiece, and this time, the reviews are all true." Brian, at least, seems to have a history of self promotion, and I'd guess that youlikeme is another of his usernames.

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:53:41 -0800

idon'tlikehim

By: Matt Oneiros

Matt Oneiros — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:57:04 -0800

It wouldn't be so bad if he'd actually flesh the posts out with other links and more information in general (and if the articles didn't suck).

Maybe we wouldn't've caught on so quickly.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:58:51 -0800

This jibes with the email address on the youlikeme username. Banned.

By: MetaMonkey

MetaMonkey — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:59:09 -0800

Anti-marketing marketing? How rare.

By: nathan_teske

nathan_teske — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:00:45 -0800

Anything you can do about the other post Jess?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:01:55 -0800

yes, please give me a second.

By: aberrant

aberrant — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:03:41 -0800

...and now the only living links to these articles are in the callout itself. How... ironic.

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:05:02 -0800

The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that I don't like where this is headed. Right now, I don't.

By: gsteff

gsteff — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:06:49 -0800

Doubly ironic, considering that he promotes himself as an expert in marketing ethics, the subject of both pieces. How postmodern.

By: jayder

jayder — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:26:02 -0800

I hate to toot my own horn, but when the first link was posted, I did say it felt like we were being marketed to.

By: jayder

jayder — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:29:27 -0800

It is also a bit odd that a website devoted to informing consumers of the evils of marketing, would also be selling stuff ... cheesy, Amway-type products.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:49:05 -0800

This post was deleted for the following reason: idonotlikeyou

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:54:44 -0800

spam I am?

By: hortense

hortense — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:27:56 -0800

Anti-marketing marketing? How rare.
sounds like a line from a Bill Hicks routine.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:37:07 -0800

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:45:56 -0800

Somewhere, Barry Manilow is weeping.

By: gsteff

gsteff — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:40:43 -0800

Did he have a third post deleted? The post tags still show up on his page, of course, and the page for the marketing tag seems to indicate that he'd written three posts.

By: gsteff

gsteff — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:42:23 -0800

Never mind, he used the tag twice on his first post.

By: naxosaxur

naxosaxur — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:43:47 -0800

ilikeyou

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:44:12 -0800

Please send $5 to support the Victims of Self Linkers fund.

By: nathan_teske

nathan_teske — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 23:03:34 -0800

brownpau wins the thread

By: Jon Mitchell

Jon Mitchell — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 23:15:49 -0800

Brownpau, please keep up the webcomics. Have you only done the two, or have I missed any?

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:13:57 -0800

Brownpau, please keep up the webcomics.

Seconded. Fine work. Please do carry on.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:41:46 -0800

what are the chances of the links to the site that are in this thread being edited to go somewhere else?

And I'm not sure, but I think someone told me that Brian W. Vaszily fellates monkeys in the zoo when he's not writing tedious web spam.

By: lucien

lucien — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:54:58 -0800

New Study Warns That Living Can Now KILL You

By: Optimus Chyme

Optimus Chyme — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:31:10 -0800

Hey, a con man who's into "supplements"? Check. Cashing in on the victims of 9/11? Check. Self-linker and spammer? Check. Congratulations, Brian W. Vaszily: you're an asshole. I hope you and your family burn to death in a house fire and someone sells your fillings for a hot dog and jerk-off mag.

By: Balisong

Balisong — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:04:51 -0800

OOh! Burn!

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:05:21 -0800

Nobody gets away with nothin' here, ya hears me! NOTHING!

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:18:34 -0800

Brian W. Vaszily is the dude that wrote the Barry Manilow piece? Man, I glanced at that and was so put off that I didn't even bother reading it. Poorly written and so damn uninformative that I regretted having clicked the link.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:21:38 -0800

No, no. It was an "amusing and informative piece by a well-known marketing insider." Didn't you read the post?

What a douchebag.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:01:36 -0800

Brian W. Vaszily is not an amusing writer, nor was his piece at all informative. It revealed nothing of an insider's viewpoint, and indeed revealed nothing that our grade seven school curriculum does not already cover: the "media and market" section of social studies beats the snot out of Brian's lame babble.

In simple terms, Brian's article was dickcheese.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:44:26 -0800

Optimus Chyme: I'm shocked and saddened by your comment.

You forgot to add "and sodomized with a Louisville Slugger dipped in hot epoxy and rolled in broken glass."

Please try to keep up.

By: mrmojoflying

mrmojoflying — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:32:29 -0800

a Louisville Slugger dipped in hot epoxy and rolled in broken glass

You can buy those on the factory tour now.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:18:37 -0800

He was youlikeme
He was a spammer
With FPPs to moldy crap
The marketeers would read and *fwap*
He would self-link-it
And count his money
And while he tried to be a star
nathan_teske guessed he was a whore
Setting up his putrid store
But we'd seen it all before
Banhammer Time (can't touch this)
Who could ask for more?

At the Meta
The MetaFilter
Best of the web has gone all off-kilter
At the Meta
The MetaFilter
Self-policing is our passion
Pitchforks always the fashion
At the Meta -
Self-linkers burn!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:24:38 -0800

It's dumb to accuse the poster of spamming digg, since they have no self-link rule and there's no such concept of "spamming digg" with your link. People post their own link to digg all the time, it's part of the system and frankly, I think it's a smart way to allow the good self-links and let the bad ones fall into oblivion where they belong.

By: hoborg

hoborg — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:29:52 -0800

Wow. I have to admire the chutzpah though. Nice catch.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:49:01 -0800

I envy his moxie!

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:00:13 -0800

"I'm intriqued by his plucky spirit!"

/Joel Hodgson

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:03:45 -0800

I am not a hamster.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:31:36 -0800

Best of the web has gone all off-kilter

You'll be hearing from my lawyers.

I am not a hamster.

Tell it to the judge.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:30:41 -0800

I've already heard from your lawyer. I signed the form. So where the hell are my CDs? ;-p

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:30:47 -0800

I envy his moxie!

That's not Moxie. You like it. It likes you.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:52:06 -0800

By: aberrant

aberrant — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:14:44 -0800

delmoi wins the thread.

By: keswick

keswick — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:00:30 -0800

no YOU win the thread.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:02:01 -0800

Circle wins the square.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:12:33 -0800

SQUARE PEG ROUND HOLE
SQUARE'S ROUND HOLE PEGGED

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:29:41 -0800

Rather then saying "X wins the thread" you should favorite their comment. That way, you can show your support without cluttering up the thread, and everyone will know the most favored comment is the "winner".

I loathe 'X wins the thread' but I'm concerned that this is very bad advice indeed, and that too many people following it will shit things up in a major way by encouraging onelinernoise even more than it already is.

Unintended consequences: +faveing jokes will fuck up Metafilter right royally. Unless you're one of the several thousand wacky funsters we already enjoy so darn much, I guess.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 07:09:09 -0800

stav, I'm pretty sure that was a joke.

By: NationalKato

NationalKato — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 07:35:58 -0800

Unless you're one of the several thousand wacky funsters

I'm just a tenement funster.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:10:30 -0800

Why the wacky funster hate?