Rebellion against advertising
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The journalling/social networking site LiveJournal has something called v-gifts, which you can send to other users and which appear on their profile page. (They can be deleted by the recipient, but I don't think there's any way to block them.) Normally, the sender has to pay to send them, but they recently introduced some free sponsored-by-Pepsi v-gifts. These were announced in the "news" journal. Of course, since news is just an ordinary journal, it too can receive vgifts. Can you guess what happened next?
The lesson? Be careful when introducing new features... they may be used in ways you don't expect.
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I wanted to give a "gift" like that once to an LJ contact.
You can imagine my total amazement when I found out you have to PAY for it. WTF. I'm not paying money for that.
So I did the prudent thing. Saved the image and emailed it.
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Wow, neat. At least the free gifts are simply Pepsi Max images, not something strange like you might find developed by the unfettered imaginations of the people in Second Life or the like.
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@sinistral said:
something strange like you might find developed by the unfettered imaginations of the people in Second Life or the like.
That's a rather verbose way to say "disembodied winged penises".
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That's a rather verbose way to say "flying dicks"
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@obediah said:
@sinistral said:
something strange like you might find developed by the unfettered imaginations of the people in Second Life or the like.
That's a rather verbose way to say "disembodied winged penises".
You haven't hung around SL for very long, have you? People get far more creative than that.
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Flying cocks?
What's wrong with them?
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@Carnildo said:
@obediah said:
@sinistral said:
something strange like you might find developed by the unfettered imaginations of the people in Second Life or the like.
That's a rather verbose way to say "disembodied winged penises".
You haven't hung around SL for very long, have you? People get far more creative than that.They're rocket-powered, now.
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@durnurd said:
That's a rather verbose way to say "flying dicks"
That's a rather verbose way to say "flugschneidel".
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@ammoQ said:
@PeriSoft said:
That's a rather verbose way to say "flugschneidel".Is this supposed to be German?
Das flugschneidel ist nicht für der gefingerpoken und mittengraben!
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@asuffield said:
@ammoQ said:
@PeriSoft said:
That's a rather verbose way to say "flugschneidel".Is this supposed to be German?
Das flugschneidel ist nicht für der gefingerpoken und mittengraben!
o.o
There could have been little children here...
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@PeriSoft said:
@durnurd said:
That's a rather verbose way to say "flying dicks"
That's a rather verbose way to say "flugschneidel".That's a rather verbose way to say "flygpitt"
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Incidentally, the real WTF is that (despite what I said) news isn't an ordinary journal, it's just that the v-gift code doesn't care about journal type. It'll happily send v-gifts to news journals and communities, not just individuals. (It'll also send them to OpenID users, but they don't actually display on the profile.) The only journal type it refuses to send them to is syndicated RSS feeds from off-site, and that looks like old generic code preventing the purchase of any paid item for them.
The other major WTF is that only yesterday did they add code to block people from sending v-gifts to users who've banned them, and the code probably hasn't gone live yet.
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@makomk said:
Only yesterday did they add code to block people from sending v-gifts to users who've banned them
I wonder how they got that idea...