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DPic [PersonRank 10]

Sunday, December 20, 2009
14 years ago3,012 views

http://techdusts.com/2009/12/21/microsoft-ceo-steve-ballmer-fires-employee-video-bing/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GM4Lt5k24s

[Changed title from all-upper case. -Philipp]

DPic [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Sorry to use too many caps, i was trying to imitate his voice haha

Also, is there a reason you deleted the other post to this thread?

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

> Sorry to use too many caps, i was trying to
> imitate his voice haha

I think as an exception all upper case titles would be perfectly OK, if not for the broken window phenomenon... http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005_01_09_index.html#110528680845200835

As for the deleted post, yes, it was spam.

For what it's worth, every day there are half a dozen messages along the lines of "great post, bookmarked!" or "i like this topic and will come back for more", always by first time posters. (This thread's user was called "For_ex_stra_tegy", if there was any more indicator needed.) These are spam posts, I'm not sure exactly what for as there's no URL, I suspect that these are either testing-the-water spam messages (to check if the forum is maintained) or they're automatically filling out fields and if there's no URL field then they post anyway, both explanations which admittedly I wouldn't *really* know how they'd make sense for spammers. The best give-away is usually that these messages are non-specific enough that they would fit on every blog post of any blog, or any thread of any forum :)

A typical moderation day here consists of banning IPs (did that today), to adding words to the blacklist, to deleting posts and so on. On that note, many thanks to the moderators who help out here!!

Usually, the best way to give feedback on spam is via email to me, this way the forum won't push the respective post to the top again...

DPic [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Ah, thanks for that explanation-- it was indeed the lack of a URL that got me

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