A demonstration.
May. 9th, 2007 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingHey, meme-sheep.
Remember "lj-mojo", the one with all the results that didn't make sense after asking you all kinds of dating information?
Look at your results now.
#1: They're all goatse. The random image? It's been replaced by the guy you hotlinked it from, who created the meme.
#2: The creator of the meme says, outright, that the results were totally random, and the only purpose of the process was to spread goatse, and to get personal information.
#3: All the personal information you submitted? It's public.
Remember "lj-mojo", the one with all the results that didn't make sense after asking you all kinds of dating information?
Look at your results now.
#1: They're all goatse. The random image? It's been replaced by the guy you hotlinked it from, who created the meme.
#2: The creator of the meme says, outright, that the results were totally random, and the only purpose of the process was to spread goatse, and to get personal information.
#3: All the personal information you submitted? It's public.
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Date: 2007-05-09 06:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-05-09 06:50 pm (UTC)*snort*
AH HA HA HA HA HAHA HA
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Date: 2007-05-09 06:59 pm (UTC)You might not.
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Date: 2007-05-09 08:02 pm (UTC)Seriously, I don't fill out anything in a meme that I would give a damn if the whole internet saw. So this just amuses the shit outta me.
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Date: 2007-05-09 08:05 pm (UTC)(If you posted the results, though, you probably want to change them.)
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Date: 2007-05-09 08:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-05-09 07:09 pm (UTC)I think it's pretty funny, myself.
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Date: 2007-05-09 07:14 pm (UTC)It may be funny--though I do sympathize with the people who were goatse'd without reason. (I say "without reason" because the expectation in these memes is for the images to be hotlinked. So it's not quite the same as when, say,
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Date: 2007-05-09 07:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-05-09 10:17 pm (UTC)Rather, we use creative, mild flames to kick the appropriate asses into line. It's more effective!
(Though, seriously, people, don't hotlink. This shit happens a lot more often than you might think.)
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Date: 2007-05-09 10:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-09 10:24 pm (UTC)Yes. That's the kind of stuff we do.
Goatse is the simpleton's way of doing things.
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Date: 2007-05-09 07:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-09 07:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-09 08:03 pm (UTC)(No, I didn't click on or submit anything. I iz gut.)
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Date: 2007-05-09 07:27 pm (UTC)Maybe it's just me, but I never doubted for a second that memes you fill out on sites other than your own personal blog could be made public at any given time by the person who designed the meme or anyone who can get access to the site. What protects me is the fact that this information is absolutely fucking harmless (at least to me). I say more incriminating things on public entries in my lj. How can this information hurt me? It can't. So why do I care if it's public? Well, I suppose if I'm a politician and I said I dated my opponent's wife... but again, why would I say that in a MEME?
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