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If we have the quote: "Don't feed the troll" then do we have the quote: "Don't feed the spam"?

Asked by Mimishu1995 (23628points) April 14th, 2014

I heard from various places that clicking on a spammer’s link will earn that spammer a little money. That literally means supporting the spammer a bit. And some people see the advertisement, and buy the product, which mean the spammer is supported even more.

That kind of support, as I put it, is called “feed”.

So, should we have this quote: “Don’t feed the spam”?

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zenvelo's avatar

I’d say “don’t taste the spam.” Spammers want you to bite!

PhiNotPi's avatar

Don’t click on spam links. A lot of the time, links appear in the form:
www.example.com/example.php?click=fgtukbyurtiunfyubts7658o7jwf445hooj
Basically, the long string of letters/digits tells spammers exactly which spam link was clicked. By clicking the link, the spammers are notified that someone on Fluther clicked the link, encouraging them to continue to spam this specific website.

Mimishu1995's avatar

@PhiNotPi That’s what I call “feed”.

GloPro's avatar

Yep, @Mimishu1995. You remember that recent spam that we PM’ed about. Neither of us clicked any link, but both of us couldn’t help ourselves and googled the name. That increases traffic, too, and gets them a higher popularity rating. Curiosity killed the cat. I refrained as long as I could stand it. Next time we’ll coordinate and only one of us can research, haha.
Also, I’m glad you altered your active jelly time to match my zone!

Berserker's avatar

Hard to not feed a troll if it is hungry. They are sixteen feet tall, use tree trunks as weapons, they regenerate and the nicest thing in their primitive language is an ode to war.

Also if I see a giant block of spam slithering after me because it wants to eat me, it’s gonna be weird.

Oh wait no, the Internet trolls and spam, right. Yeah, don’t touch dat spam!

El_Cadejo's avatar

Don’t eat the spam.

That statement applies to both the internet and real life. :P

Berserker's avatar

Hey man, real life spam rocks.

Mimishu1995's avatar

@GloPro Heh! Next time we’ll play rock-paper-scissor to determine who will research ~

@Symbeline Like those creep who drop advertisement papers outside my house everyday?

Berserker's avatar

@Mimishu1995 Yeah no, not those butt burgers.

El_Cadejo's avatar

@Symbeline I’ve actually never eaten real life spam. I’m pretty happy about that :P

Berserker's avatar

@El_Cadejo I like it, it’s not that bad. I first encountered it during a time where I really had no money and I’m like…well, it’s all I can afford, so. Ended up being pretty good. :) Sure beats ramen noodles, I’ll tell you that.

El_Cadejo's avatar

@Symbeline I’ve been there too but I went the Ramen/rice/soup route. I just have a thing about meat(calling spam meat is a stretch) in a can. I won’t eat canned tuna either.

Berserker's avatar

When I don’t have a lot of money, I usually get pasta sauce and spaghetti noodles. Very cheap, but good and filling. It fixes problems. But I still like spam and tuna,. :)

Recently got canned chicken though…that…was pretty disgusting. :(

Haha but like a bunch of years ago I was really broke and on welfare, but then I found work. I was happy, but I had NOTHING to make lunches with to take to work with me. So for like three weeks, I survived on spam sandwiches.

I regret nothing.

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