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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:50 pm

Mugatu wrote:

Additionally I get bored and wander off halfway through a bait to start a different one.

The same here but I don't know if it actually is a big mistake. The lads have to entertain me in a way or another to keep me happy. Otherwise I can spend my time chatting with my mentor. Very Happy

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:39 pm

I'm like Mugatu! Smile

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:06 pm

I used to do my baits from a single account, using different character names for different baits, and I stopped doing that when I learned that I forgot to change the "from" name in one email to a lad.

My corrective action was to run each bait from its own account, but I still slip up every now and then and get my baiting character names cross-wired.

Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:18 pm

One time I baited all Charles Soludos. That was a mistake. Because I got them all mixed up. It actually worked out PERFECTLY in the end. But, I still was too mixed up.

I always sign emails with wrong names and everything.

Baiting Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 3193

Sent an email from the wrong account - at least twice. Very easy to do on gmail using the + thing for different characters.

Regarding answering too quickly, one I had great fun with recently was to send around 100 responses to lads' initial mails and then to reply as quickly and with as little thought and planning as possible. I had something like twenty to thirty baits on the go at the same time, with the same character and the same email account. It's not the best way to bait long-term, in fact it is very bad for that, but it is good for honing organisational skills, thinking on the fly and doing as little work as possible.

Elite Baiter Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1269

When I had only been baiting for a month or two, I killed all 4 of my promising baits by suddenly asking for a trophy pic.

Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:22 pm

By far, my biggest mistake was accidentally getting two lads confused and sending the wrong email to them compromising an art bait and a possible safari. I still have yet to get my first safari...... Sad

Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:28 pm

So, so many ... Signing off with the wrong character, addressing the wrong mugu or script .. Nicest one was a vlad I kept sending back her own scripts because she obviously wasn't reading anything I wrote. Eventually she:?: did start reading them a bit than sooner I expected. The one she did read was 'I live in Moscow', and I had to explain how I ended up living in Moscow. I explained to her being born Russian myself, adopted by Germans, and only 2 weeks ago moved back to my roots. She gave me several Russian (Cyrillic) lessons, great fun.