How to deal with a relentless spammer, a WePay April Fools’ special

Re:How to deal with a relentless spammer, a WePay April Fool... by aberman on Friday April 01, 2011 @12:15PM (#2396813)

Rich from WePay here. Definitely did not want this to end up on HN. Awkward...

edw519: I know what you're going to say...and I agree with you this time ;)

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Re:How to deal with a relentless spammer, a WePay April Fool... by ivankirigin on Friday April 01, 2011 @12:39PM (#2396912)

What did you think was going to happen?! [in my bed Ed Norton voice]

Folks seeing this might not understand the degree of annoyance this company has caused. I've personally been called at least 40 times, half of those AFTER I shut down Tipjoy.

This company deserves worse.

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Re:How to deal with a relentless spammer, a WePay April Fool... by aberman on Friday April 01, 2011 @12:44PM (#2396929)

haha - it's awesome that you know who they are even though we bleeped out the name.

I figured it might get posted to HN, but I was hoping it would just live on reddit for a while...

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Re:How to deal with a relentless spammer, a WePay April Fool... by orangecat on Friday April 01, 2011 @12:46PM (#2396935)

t's awesome that you know who they are even though we bleeped out the name.

Well, when you have direct quotes from other victims...

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Re:How to deal with a relentless spammer, a WePay April Fool... by edw519 on Friday April 01, 2011 @12:54PM (#2396974)

OK Rich, I know it's just good clean fun (especially today), so I'll see your "We Pay Haiku" and raise you a...

  Hacker News Dilemma
  
  You work your butt off on your blog
    Providing content that's all the rage,
  But no matter how hard you try and try
    You can't hit the Hacker News front page.
    
  Then someone takes your picture
    Goofing off or rolling joints,
  And there your are at Number 1
    Voted up with 42 points.

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Re:How to deal with a relentless spammer, a WePay April Fool... by aberman on Friday April 01, 2011 @02:11PM (#2397324)

Well done, sir.

Again, I agree - I didn't think this belonged on HN.

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Re:How to deal with a relentless spammer, a WePay April Fool... by bullrunbear on Friday April 01, 2011 @12:57PM (#2396990)

Kudos...

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