Huh.

[askerian]

You know, that "I write like..." meme that's been going around?

Apparently it's a scam. Goal seems to be to get the guy's vanity publishing thinger get more hits on google. You can input pure gibberish and it'll still give you a nice and tidy "I write like..." to post.

Man am I glad I didn't post mine when I tried it. Anyway guys, I suggest you delete yours. They don't deserve the free publicity. >__>

Comments

[atom-bunny.livejournal.com]

I thought there was something up with it when some of my results changed after a couple of days.

I posted that crap on my InsaneJournal. Right - off to lock that sucker up now...

[heeroluva.livejournal.com]

How many people really read the rest of that site?

[askerian]

which site? the one with the meme? It doesn't matter if THEY don't read it, the fact is that it's spamming that guy's links to his books so that they'll come up higher in a google search, and he's using bullshit fake meme that doesn't work as it's supposed to. it's not a huge evil thing, but it's still using people and tricking them and that's not what i'd call cool.

[heeroluva.livejournal.com]

Ah, well it's underhanded, but I think there are worse things.

[hiza-chan.livejournal.com]

Wait, so is it like a virus or something?

[askerian]

... >_>;; no. it doesn't download anything to your computer. Just uses faked results to get more people to look at their vanity publishing company, which is pretty underhanded.

[hiza-chan.livejournal.com]

Ya know, if I'd read that this morning I probably would have wrapped my brain around it. ...This is why I shouldn't wake up in the middle of the night and post comments. I act dumb. T_T

Took mine down though!

[venia.livejournal.com]

Thought it was fake since it didn't even take a second to come up with a name. At least I didn't post anything, phew. ~_~;

[venia.livejournal.com]

p.s. Itachi looks so YOUNG in your pic *___* I miss Kishimoto's old drawing style SO MUCH.

[lukita.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up, links edited out and sending the message on.

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'm glad I didn't post mine, and I feel better, since I kept getting Dan Brown. T^T

[sunhawk6498.livejournal.com]

It was featured on NPR on Sat. Interesting that it's a scam.

[windandwater.livejournal.com]

Ugh. That's horrible. I'm glad I was too busy to try the meme.

[bunnynumber13.livejournal.com]

I tried that with a sample of each of my fanfics and a different 'you write like' author came up for each one. I never posted it in my journal, of course, I just wanted to test it out. Apparently I write like a lot of different authors! XD I didn't know I was so multi-talented. So yeah everyone listen to the Asuka and avoid this nonsense.

[oo-da-lally.livejournal.com]

You can input pure gibberish and it'll still give you a nice and tidy "I write like..." to post.

http://i26.tinypic.com/2roj2b5.jpg

[askerian]

... pffHAHAHAHA XD XD XD

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