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[meetinginsamarra]

What do you make of this comment??

I got the following comment on my fic about 3 hours ago. It is totally generic apart from the title of my fic.

What do you make of this?

This is some kind of scam, right?

I only checked their instagram and the account has been there for 2 years with 28 posts and the name has been changed 4 times.

AO3 account has been made yesterday.

I will just be thanking them for the comment, nothing else.

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I truly appreciate your writing skills and the way you craft your story "Take My Broken Love" I'm enjoying every moment, especially the characters you create. Your storytelling is fantastic, and I can’t get enough! If you have any book recommendations, I’d love to hear them. I'm eagerly anticipating your upcoming work and can’t wait to dive into your next projects.

As someone who enjoys exploring different genres, I’m captivated by your writing.

Additionally, as an artist, I’d be thrilled to bring some of your characters to life through my drawings. It would be an honor to collaborate and infuse your ideas into my artwork. I’m excited about the possibility of creating something amazing together that you’ll love!

Feel free to DM me here, Discord: Instagram: Email: 

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[probablyasocialecologist]

When you look at Instagram or Facebook, I want you to try and think of them less as social networks, and more as a form of anthropological experiment. Every single thing you see on either platform is built or selected to make you spend more time on the app and see more things that Meta wants you to see, be they ads, sponsored content, or suggested groups that you can interact with, thus increasing the amount of your “time spent” on the app, and increasing the amount of “meaningful interactions” you have with content. I also want you to realize that anything bad that you see on the platform is a symptom of Mark Zuckerberg’s unwillingness to rate-limit or sufficiently moderate the platform. Logically-speaking, one would think that Meta would want you to have a high-quality Facebook experience, pruning content that might be incendiary, spammy, scammy or unhelpful, or at the very least, comes primarily from those within your own network, but when your only concern is growth, content moderation is more of an emergency measure.  And to be clear, this is part of Meta’s cultural DNA. In an interview with journalist Jeff Horwitz in his book Broken Code, Facebook’s former VP of Ads and Partnerships Brian Bolland said that “building things is way more fun than making things secure and safe…[and] until there’s a regulatory or press fire, you don’t deal with it.”  Horwitz also cites that Meta engineers’ greatest frustration was that the company “perpetually [needed] something to fail — often fucking spectacularly — to drive interest in fixing it.” Horwitz’s book describes Meta’s approach to moderation as “having a light touch,” considering it “a moral virtue” and that the company “wasn’t failing to supervise what users did — it was neutral.” As I’ve briefly explained, the logic here is that the more stuff there is on Facebook or Instagram, the more likely you are to run into something you’ll interact with, even if said interaction is genuinely bad. Horwitz notes that in April 2016, Meta analyzed Facebook’s most successful political groups, finding that a third of them “routinely featured content that was racist and conspiracy-minded,” with their growth heavily-driven by Facebook’s “Groups You Should Join” and “Discover” features, algorithmic tools that Facebook used to recommend content. The researcher in question added that “sixty-four percent of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools.” When the researcher took their concerns to Facebook’s “Protect and Care” team, they were told that there was nothing the team could do as “the accounts creating the content were real people, and Facebook intentionally had no rules mandating truth, balance or good faith.” Meta, at its core, is a rot economy empire, entirely engineered to grow metrics and revenue at the expense of anything else. In practice, this means allowing almost any activity that might “grow” the platform, even if it means groups that balloon by tens or hundreds of thousands of people a day, or allowing people to friend 50 or more people in a single day. It means allowing almost any content other than that which it’s legally required to police like mutilation and child pornography, even if the content it allows in makes the platform significantly worse.  As a result, Meta is kind of like an absentee parent, occasionally looking up from their phone and muttering “don’t do that” when something obviously awful happens, and even then they’re extremely hesitant to intervene. 

[busket]

what in the world is with all the spammy scammy amazon job listing posts in the dungeon meshi tag. are they bots just using popular tags or are ppl getting their blogs hijacked

[lostelfwriting]

Runaway prince Morpheus

But make it modern era

You know how your grandma sometimes gets those spammy, scammy, scummy emails from an “african prince” who is trying to escape the corrupt regime and needs to deposit his wealth into your bank account?

Technophobe Hob who has no idea what spam mail or a scam is.

Btw this is 100 % crack fiction.

History teacher Hob who only got a phone eight yers ago. His students taught him how to use an email when they grew bored of handing in everything through mail or pigeon (seriously, man, mailing your essays???) during covid. So he’s had a small laptop and only used it to access his email for a few years. But then someone reccomends him a couple websites, and what do you mean I don’t need to wait for the new journal to get pronted and mail?! I can read it on the internet a week before it reaches me?!

So, Hob finally starts exploring the internet. But oops, nobody taught him internet safety. The first couple spam emials that he gets are suspicious attractive women that for some reason are interested in him. He brushes it off, kindly turns each of the bots down. Then he starts winning phones. He turns those down too, he is quite happy with his “brick”, as his students call it.

Then he gets an email from a runaway prince from a country that he’s sure doesn’t have a monarchy anymore. He replies with great suspicion. “Morpheus” (Greek name but that guy claims to come from the North and he’s pale as paper) responds with a damn essay that uncovers a huge conspiracy behind his country’s government, and the conclusion is that there still is monarchy that matters but some people don’t aggree with it and want true democracy, including him, so that puts target on his back both from the inside (government) and outside (people who want true democracy and only see him as yet another symptom of the problem). He’s not safe in the country.

Hob, sunshine that he is, offers to help. Sends Morpheus all the info that he asks for, his bank account info, credit card info, his address. He sends Morpheus a lot of money that the prince needs to pay some fees, but he promises he’ll return it.

For three weeks, nothing happens. Hob scours the internet for news of some Nordic prince mysteriously dying or disappearing, but there is nothing. No signs of a huge government conspiracy either, but then it wouldn’t be a conspiracy. Finally, he asks some of his students who are better with technology if they can help him find a person he’s been talking to. He explains how they met. The students gently inform him that he’s been scammed and tell him how to report it.

Hob feels pretty dumb and decides to return to technology-free life. Says goodbye to the moeny that he’ll never see again, if his students are right.

Then one day, a knock on his door in the middle of the night. He opens, because the person sounds quite frantic and Hob will never learn, and the person pushes past him into his apartment and slams the door. And wouldn’t you know it, the man looks exactly like Morpheus from those emails. He looks haunted and pretty beat up, but he’s real.

Hob gets pulled into a complicated web of conspiracies as he helps the prince take the government apart from far away. His apartment turns into a secret hacker den as Morpheus buys more and more computers and... computer things... and apparently, he’s insisting that he can hack the government apart. Morpheus spends day and night slowing down his alleged pursuers and publicising dirt that he has on his own country, and one day, Hob actually sees on the news that several of the country’s politicians end up arrested. His students share memes about the situation with him to cheer him up, thinking he’s still bummed out about the money (that Morpheus has returned tenfold) but in reality he’s freaking out because that proves that this is real.

There are definitely some action scenes. Someone trailing Hob as he’s leaving work, and he leads them into a dark alley and beats them up Greco-Roman wrestling style, because he really enjoyed that hobby at school and he was damn good and nobody ever expects it of him.

Eventually, the whole country is in riot and the current government has to flee and people take over, and some of them demand Morpheus takes over, since he obviously care about democracy, but Morpheus is like nah, I’m comfy here, no thank you. Some feelings have developed between Hob and Morpheus during the few months they spend together with Hob practically force-feeding worcaholic Morpheus and supplying him with a gallon of coffee every day, and Morpheus making sure Hob is alright with being a small but significant part of the greatest scandal in modern history.

And bed-sharing! There is bed-sharing!

[girlw-amermaidtattoo]

Hi. How are you doing today. Sorry for invading your privacy. Your blog looks fascinating and kindly Dm if you’re interested being in a sugar relationship 😊

This sounds so scammy & spammy.

[billcipherisntreal]

Okay HEY I didn’t even know about the RANDOM OTHER POSTS????

Guys the only posts I’ve made so far are this one, the last one, and the intro post with the weird tags that showed up after I passed out. Apparently there’s a couple other posts including one linking to a weird website? Please do NOT click any links from me, I don’t have any plans to post links or anything like that unless I explicitly state otherwise. Maybe report the post as a spammy/scammy link too?

I only know about all this cause a friend told me the post history on this account is erratic and weird :/ unfortunately I cannot see these other posts and now I’m starting to freak out cause I can’t afford a new phone or laptop rn, and I’ll be real screwed if a hacker somehow got ahold of everything qwq

Sorry this post isn’t focusing on gravity falls content but I wanna make it known I did NOT post that link and whoever did clearly has some vile intentions. Stay safe y’all please don’t click any mystery links it’s not a free iPhone I promise

[undertale-cooking]

Deltarune Teaparty: Butler Juice

A varied, colorful palette for the most discerning of palates!

Recipe by scammy-and-spammy

Ingredients:

A high-density beverage (examples: fruit punch, apple cider, grenadine)

A low-density beverage (examples: sugar-free Sprite/7Up, white or rosé wine)

Ice

Food coloring (if your beverages are not already colorful)

Straw (if desired)

Directions:

ButJuice is just as much a science experiment as it is a recipe! The key is the densities of the various beverages. If you pour a very dense beverage into a glass and then pour a less-dense beverage on top, it’s possible to layer the drinks without them immediately mixing. This can give a very beautiful effect.

Generally, the amount of sugar is what determines how dense a beverage is. If you have a super sugary drink like fruit punch or a sugary bar syrup like grenadine, that is far denser then something like a sugar-free soda or a light wine.

1.) Coldify your glass by filling it with lots of ice cubes. This with help slow down the mixing of layers.

2.) Next, pour your bottom layer and fill about half the glass.

3.) Pour your other beverage into a seperate cup at first. Add the food coloring if needed at this time and blend.

4.) Next, take a large spoon and place it gently into your glass so it covers your bottom layer. Then, very gently and slowly pour the second beverage into your main glass, over the bottom of the spoon. The spoon will help your top layer pour as gently as possible into the glass and minimize mixing.

And that’s it! If done well, the layers will remain seperate for quite some time, in fact. (As I’m typing these directions up, the drink I made is STILL very seperated, and it’s been over an hour by now) You can drink your beverage with a straw if you’d like to enjoy the bottom layer first.

This layering effect is popular to use in some cocktails, such as the Rainbow Paradise cocktail or the Tequila Sunrise, but it can be used just as easily for non-alcoholic drinks, too!

Bonus - Butler Tea

If you prefer to Warmify your beverage, you can attempt a colorful drink as well for some cozy Butler Tea! Keep in mind the colorful effect will not be as strong as the cold drinks, and will vanish much more quickly, though.

Simply prepare a hot tea of your choice (Earl Gray is a good option). Add milk or creamer in order to lighten up the color of your beverage. Add any desired extras, such as sweetners or garnish; boba pearls might be nice! Then, simply add a few drops of food coloring into your drink and swirl the beverage very lightly.

Enjoy!

[noraqrosa]

ON: SPAMMERS, RE: MUSIC-BASED POSTS

POSTED THIS EARLIER venting about spammers who accost people who post about music here:

but that doesn't quite illustrate it well enough

SO HOW'S ABOUT A VIDEO MONTAGE (sorta, if you can call a video of a screen recording a montage)

song is mine btw, more info underneath this Spotify link to it (tho you can find it & all my other stuff anywhere you can find muics):

this ain't even the half of it. avoid ctkvi/"the creative studio"/ongawdclub/canmking/whatever other sockpuppets they may have. most of these blogs will have the same sorts of posts:

and they get people by spamming likes and reblogs of anyone who mentions music, music videos, Spotify, graphics, etc.

AND I'M SURE THIS POST WILL ATTRACT MORE OF THESE "PEOPLE" (read: algorithms poorly pretending to be sentient beings) TOO

but, you know what? that's fine. that'll just make it easier for me to block them. and they'll be proving my point! bonus!!!!

anyway here's another song of mine, the latest single i put out (another one coming soon). they can spam? i can shamelessly self-promote.

[triple-pupil]

hi!  I am desperately in need for help. I need my insulin to bring my blood sugar back down. It’s $300 That’s all I need. I’m not asking for a windfall, just a little help, please.

Be blessed 💓🙏🙏💓

            DONATE AND SHARE.

This feels so scam like.... But I go to the profile and it seems more legit so idk, I'll post this and let the masses judge.

Also if this is Indeed legit, sir, this language is súper Sketchy and spammy and scammy etc. So...

Idk this thing is so scammy like and the profile so "realer" idk help.

Edit: According to an anon, it is a scam so...

[dykevirgo]

has anyone else gotten something like this commented on one of their ao3 works? it feels very scammy/spammy to me. plus the fact that they want me to write about someone potentially underage and emphasize their age, how tight their clothes are, and how cute/hot they are is extremely creepy and wrong

[bebecue]

one of my new hobbies is sending annoying memes to spammy scammy stock exchange group chats i get randomly added into where half the members are bots with the ytest names until i get kicked out and/or blocked

[xccentriktigress]

Hi sweetie! I hope you’re doing pretty well! just wanted to ask a favor for some help if you could possibly help me spread the word for my cat please? Pls help by boosting it or by reblogging, im really sorry cause I know this is kinda strange, pls send me a msg to reply :(( or answer the ask privately if its okay, I hope you’d consider, I’m sorry for being so desperate. 😭🙏

So I wasn't really sure what to with this got a lot of reasons. Yeah this is weird and asking specifically for a private answer feels especially suspicious. I didn't find any posts older than like 6am today and half of them are the post about your cat with the link asking for money.

So I'm answering this publicly. Maybe you're legit and someone will see this and help you. Maybe the spammy scammy blogs are getting smarter?

Mutuals, opinions?

[esoraluco]

dark synth is an actual au now and i want to make it feel like an 80s love movie but with trans guys that are kinda evil

by evil i mean 1) spam sells expensive scammy cungaderos with spikes glued on them and driving them like a kid playing gta for the first time and 2) blue sells stilettos and is hopelessly in love with spam, the latter is surprisingly nice with blue by his standards. Read spam actually tries to act like a cool masculine mysterious guy whenever he's around blue. Eventually spam slips up in his act and blue falls in love even more with not cool not tough spammy

[stevensaus]

HOW TO Send Me A Request For Changing Attribution For Images

I usually make a point of putting attribution for the "featured image" on my posts, which occasionally leads to an e-mail from an artist asking me to change the link to a different site that they control. I have no problem with this -- I think creators should definitely control their own web presence whenever possible. That said, I just added a little bit to my "Links and Images" page to clarify something and to make everyone's life easier: Please note: If you originally posted an image to unsplash/pixabay and wish for me to change the attribution link from my blog to your primary portfolio or website, I'm happy to do so IF you - Provide some provenance, such as a link to the image on your portfolio site (to demonstrate you're not just a random person) and... - I don't have to click a link with traffic tracking to get to your website. I get enough scammy and spammy email that such things tend to get filtered out and auto-deleted. Thanks! Featured Photo by Umberto on Unsplash Read the full article

[ericvanderburg]

Indian telcos to cut off scammy, spammy, telemarketers for two whole years

http://securitytc.com/TBttg6