Light your torch and sharpen your pitchfork

December 5, 2005 4:22 PM

stupid viral marketing. Light your torch and sharpen your pitchfork.
posted by crunchland to Etiquette/Policy at 4:22 PM (33 comments total)

But his wine store has great deals on 2003 Bordeaux futures. I say we hear him out.
posted by Rothko at 4:24 PM on December 5, 2005

Forget the pitchforks. Just save that QT file repeatedly.
posted by scarabic at 4:27 PM on December 5, 2005

And I was about to be all offended about the mistrust of new(ish) members...until the Bloodhound Gang took the case.
posted by SassHat at 4:28 PM on December 5, 2005

When do we evolve to suckerpunch marketing? You know, when you blindside someguy on the subway and, while he's out cold, you stuff his pockets with ads and coupons?
posted by fenriq at 4:28 PM on December 5, 2005

People should try harder. Re-using usernames? Single link posts to an ad? That just makes it too easy to spot.
posted by smackfu at 4:31 PM on December 5, 2005

Encyclopedia Brown And The Strangely Uninteresting, Poorly Written Single Link To A Wine Store Television Advertisement
posted by killdevil at 4:40 PM on December 5, 2005

Extra bonus points for the poster's cleverly content-free five comments in the blue.
posted by killdevil at 4:43 PM on December 5, 2005

How long before yonnage pops up and claims he didn't know that what he did was bad?
posted by crunchland at 4:44 PM on December 5, 2005

I'm with Rothko on this one...just think of all the great things you'll be missing out on if we crucify this guy...
posted by hototogisu at 4:44 PM on December 5, 2005

that was the funniest self-link pile-on that I've seen in a while, however, the self-link is now closed for business.
posted by jessamyn at 4:48 PM on December 5, 2005

of course, it would totally be acceptable if their posts were instead about apple, blogger, creative commons, radiohead, or one's own ego.
posted by the aloha at 4:49 PM on December 5, 2005

*spits wine all over yonnage*
posted by knave at 4:50 PM on December 5, 2005

Frankly, I'm surprised that this sort of bullshit doesn't happen more often. Now, who can help me with an automated script to repeatedly download that video file?
posted by crunchland at 4:50 PM on December 5, 2005

wget -r -l0 http://winelibrary.com/commercial.asp

For Windows users, you can grab wget for Windows here:

http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/wgetwin.html

Not that I condone that kind of activity.
posted by killdevil at 4:54 PM on December 5, 2005

"People do stupid things. Like pay too much for phone serviceself-links on Metafilter. So switch to Vyonnage."
posted by mr_crash_davis at 5:08 PM on December 5, 2005

Would this work? If an account has never made a post before it gets held for review, sort of how anonymous questions work on AskMe. That would keep these obvious self linkers from ever getting the exposure.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 6:05 PM on December 5, 2005

I think that thread should be linked to as a warning for all potential self-linkers. As in, "MetaFilter assumes no responsibility for any jackassery that may result from a self-link."
posted by MrZero at 6:36 PM on December 5, 2005

Answering jonson's question from the thread: "Hey Plutor, how did you find the blog, and what specifically indicates that it belongs to this yonnage guy?"

It was just a Google Search for "yonnage winelibrary". This is the post that makes me think it's the same guy. He uses the first person to describe a link uploaded by a flickr user named yonnage. Maybe a coincidence, but MeFi isn't a court of law. "I am the Law!" -- Judge Dredd Mathowie
posted by Plutor at 6:54 PM on December 5, 2005

I wholeheartedly encourage everyone to wget because self-linking for profit isn't yet a capital offense. P.S. get banned asshole
posted by Optimus Chyme at 7:32 PM on December 5, 2005

well, aren't you spashul.
posted by quonsar at 7:36 PM on December 5, 2005

post a picture of an elephant
posted by Optimus Chyme at 7:37 PM on December 5, 2005

Boys, boys, let's calm down. Have a glass of wine.
posted by Rothko at 7:39 PM on December 5, 2005

*spits wine all over Rothko's face*
posted by geoff. at 7:49 PM on December 5, 2005

that should be "wget -r -l0 http://winelibrary.fileburst.com/winelibrary.mpg"

Not that I condone that either.
posted by puke & cry at 7:56 PM on December 5, 2005

no no, I'm dumb. Nevermind me.
posted by puke & cry at 7:57 PM on December 5, 2005

I've flagged your comment as "erotic", geoff.
posted by Rothko at 7:59 PM on December 5, 2005

Stupid company. Anyone can see they should be called Winebrary, which is what I keep reading it as, anyway.
...
posted by Jon Mitchell at 8:01 PM on December 5, 2005

Yah, puke & cry, except that fileburst.com sounds like one of those filehosting sites... y'know, a site that isn't affiliated with wine-boy. So I opted for the next best target.
posted by killdevil at 8:32 PM on December 5, 2005

They still charge by the gigabyte.
posted by crunchland at 8:46 PM on December 5, 2005

posted by Dreamghost at 9:42 PM on December 5, 2005

Would this work? If an account has never made a post before it gets held for review, sort of how anonymous questions work on AskMe. That would keep these obvious self linkers from ever getting the exposure.

I second Pink's very easy suggestion.
posted by squirrel at 9:33 AM on December 6, 2005

It's an easy suggestion, yes, but it's a boring suggestion. The only thing these self-linkers are being exposed to is ridicule. Don't take that away from us. With the <big> tag gone, it's basically all we have left.
posted by Plutor at 1:05 PM on December 6, 2005

You speak a hard truth, Plutor.
posted by squirrel at 8:41 PM on December 10, 2005