So...who be the interns?

[Tim]

I'm happy. I'm healthy. I learn a bit more Spanish every day.

Completed both my 30 day challenges and now I'm on to the next two. About to give up all sport AND TV so I should have too much time to stop making excuses to properly learn Spanish when I do.

Just got to sort that make Mark money thing though...

[Chaos]

Tell me some of you know how to properly prepare some mojitos.

Soccer is a pretty demanding and complete sport. I work out, I go out running for 30-40 minutes 3 times a week, and still every fucking time I play and it's been a while since the last time my abs, my legs and my back are stiff.

[Mark]

I actually don't really like mojitos. Possibly the worst effort/reward ratio for any alcoholic beverage.

[Creatine Dreams]

Best effort/reward ratio for an alcoholic beverage seems to be 4 Loko. Open the can and you are ready to go!

[Mark]

(06-18-2012 12:48 AM)Creatine Dreams Wrote:  Best effort/reward ratio for an alcoholic beverage seems to be 4 Loko. Open the can and you are ready to go!

Truth.

[Halo Effect]

(06-17-2012 08:46 PM)Mark Wrote:  The interns haven't been getting out of the house much and when I give them crap about it they whine about the language barrier (yes guys, I'm calling you out). In his defense, Zac has been making more effort to get out and meet people. The other two not as much. But it's a pretty different country/culture and it's a big adjustment so I can't rag on them too much about it. It's hard. Would be for anybody.

Honestly, I don't really care what they do as long as they start making me money some time soon.

Zac and I have gone out a bunch of times just walking the busy streets and parks of El Poblado at night. We have had some awesome adventures so far... some of them shrouded in mystery.

[Zac]

I'd say we have 4 solid nights 7 hours out meeting people, absorbing culture, and absorbing Aguardiente.

[SeXyBaCk]

I tend to stick to clear drinks, so selection is limited. Mojitos only work for me between 4 and 6 pm on the equator and when there's spicy finger foods handy. That's just rum for me, it's dull on it's own. I've made a point to avoid learning how to fix my own drinks Chaos, we all know where that would lead to. And it's a woman's chorec can be hot when a woman fixes you a drink. Showing dat devotion.

You guys been to a footie match yet? There's gotta be a derby. Hmm, probably off-season now though even over there. What's the elevation of medellin? How about getting some culture in? Hike challenge into the mountains? Hmhmhn, can see how it might be hard getting some work done.

Football (as it's called) is fine on the body as long as you never run backwards. Play as striker. The last time I felt my back muscles was after spending 4 hours on a computer.

[NZavaloff]

I thought they might be Halo and Zac?

[Mark]

(07-05-2012 05:22 AM)NZavaloff Wrote:  I thought they might be Halo and Zac?

Halo, Zac and Tim.

[Chaos]

Mark, that's spam. It's the last line from the original thread by SexyBack.

[Zac]

I was wondering why that was that guys first post.

[SeXyBaCk]

Quickly, boys, gettum! Hold him down, while I tie my doc martens, it's my turn to do the kickin'.

Peace out.

How does spam work on web forums? It's a bot that does it automatically? For what purpose though. I don't see any advertising attached to it. Some of the other spams looked like they were... from some turkish fake brand factory or something. And then there have been some weird comments from what seemed like high indian yoga dudes.

[Chaos]

My guess is (that's how I'll do it anyway) you program a bot to register and circle through the threads finding patterns to replicate and then start posting simple innocent answers, like the one above. I've seen the "copying" on phrase often, specially questions. That's because questions are easy to identify and usually have context so they appear to be legitimate content.

Now, after you've post a couple of post, maybe 10 or 20 you edit your signature (in the members panel) and include there some links. And since the signature is automatically included in every post, retroactively your previous posts (which already passed the spam filter) suddenly have your links, and thus you've fished some links back to your site.

[Tim]

Yeah that's how it works Chaos. And if you go to that guys page you'll see there's now a link on it.