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[DrEvil]

..It's real time spam on messaging clients like AIM or MSN.

I'm sure a fair number of us have people on our contact lists that work for various websites, and among those people, I'm sure a lot of us get people from said sites telling us about new stories and stuff like that.

This shit pisses me off.

You guys probably know I work at N-Sider; big deal, we update monthly and I dont think any of us have spammed anyone with links to an amazing new story or whatever; regardless, if there is ONE site out there that pisses me off the most with this constant spamming, it's the "Advanced Meda 'Network' "

I'm casually working away on some 3d stuff and I get disrupted with the following convo:
(I am NSiderDotCom)

xNCLMatt: Hi
NSiderDotCom: hi.
xNCLMatt: Have you seen our world exclusive on DS Advanced?
NSiderDotCom: no, and its probably nothing too exciting either
xNCLMatt: First details on Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
NSiderDotCom: yup, nothing exciting.
xNCLMatt: yeah... nothing really big
NSiderDotCom: then why tout it as such?
xNCLMatt: but pretty cool news
NSiderDotCom: not a comic fan, so nah.

Why bother? I know they want to drive hits to the site, but to be all "WORLD EXCLUSIVE OMG!!" is over the top; what's next? World Exclusive on PenisEnlargementAdvanced?

I know I'm not the only one who gets shit like this, so please, if anyone else shares in my dread, please post your experiences.

 

[Dan]

Heh, Sean O'Neill from the same site pesters me with links once in a while. He doesn't seem to take the hint in that I rarely even respond and when I do, it's about how I'm not interested. It's been going on for probably two years. I think it started when he was looking for an affiliation with the site I used to run/write for. I was polite then and dealt with him, but ever since he's always trying to remind myself of him and the site, or at least that's my perception. After I quit my site about a year ago he started offering me a position there and I kept flatly saying that I had no interest in any more gaming sites. Still, I continue to get sent links about contests and news stories.

I guess this is my reminder to block him. *opens up AIM options* There, done. That ends that.

I have to say, of the 15 people I've got on my block list, 13 of those are related to gaming sites. They're all annoying site administrators, asshat forum users from my old site or young kids who thought it was way cool to talk to someone who ran a site and knew stuff.

 

[ManaByte]

Is that the same guy advertising his retarded site in the gaming forum?
http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=52488

 

[DrEvil]

Yeah, Sean bothers me too as well - he tried to get us to affiliate with them for ages, we keep saying no (the only affiliation we've ever officially done was with IGNCube)... Then he tried to steal me from N-Sider to his site, I laughed in his face.

He doesn't do it as much now, but he has been telling me lately how things havent been going as well and that shit's beginning to hit the fan; so perhaps there's more going on than we know.

Back when the whole DemaSked thing was going on, my AIM was a hell-hole, people trying to get news from me, I had people from dojo and other sites trying to pester me, it was a pain in the ass. I almost feel sad for matt c. because I bet what we go through is only a mere fraction of the shit he has to deal with.

edit: mana, most likely.

 

[Cold-Steel]

We should beat them all with paddles.

Then give them world exclusive interviews with a fake microphone that shoots water.

Then they will think we are jerks.