Entertainment For Lively Minds
Will this thread shortly be hijacked
by some virtual or non-virtual bit of commercial promotion? I guess there are probably not enough juicy keywords for pain-in-the-butt intervention. My sympathies are with Fraser who's presented with the virtual equivalent of cleaning excrement off the the doorstep on arriving at work and at regular intervals thereafter.
I'm reminded of a humane and patient ex-boss plagued by one particular salesman from a recruitment agency who couldn't appreciate the meaning of words like "no" , "no requirement", "we're not recruiting" etc. - even when repeated ad infinitum. Eventually the man could take no more and gave him a vigorous Anglo-Saxon instruction.
"I'm glad to hear you have a positive and robust attitude" came the reply, or something equally inane. The phone went down faster than a very very fast thing.
Go ahead, punk. Make my day - ignore me (or just post "Yup - I agree").
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You're quite right...
scum... subhuman scum.
Vandals
got to your car again Alan?
"We managed to rectify it, though..."
"...because it now says, by adapting it, "Cook" where it once said "Cock", and it says "Pass" now where it once said "Piss", so it's slightly less rude."
Steady on there...
The people placing the links will - in most cases - be the very poor of China or India, probably paid a dollar for every thousand links they add to web forums like this one.
There's little point in getting angry with them - needs must, after all - not that it'll stop me from deleting their contributions. The people to blame are the "SEO experts" who hire them, people specialising in search engine optimisation, an entirely legitimate industry sadly dominated by cowboys.
All true
I do in fact blame the scammers and cowboys who pay people to subvert captcha and place their egregious crud in the worlds web pages. There are times when I have to rein in my white-hatted tendency to bomb the bastards back. It's not easy.
Erm.....
A-ha....
Duly noted Fraser -
thanks for the illumination. Guess I should have known that outsourcing would be involved in a manual task and at piecework rates. Probably of more practical use to someone than my occasional random interjections (no surprises there).
Yee-hah! Serious SEO-wallahs have a panoply of terminology for such abuses, as I discovered a while back when trying to work out exactly what a job ad meant.
Hijack/delete away please (as if any permission were needed) :-)