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extremeb
419Eater is my life
Joined: 29 Sep 2010
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Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:31 am |
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manbiteslion
Baiting Guru
Joined: 12 Dec 2007
Posts: 4816
Location: Connecting my chair and keyboard
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Thu Oct 28, 2010 4:37 pm |
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Jpeg, right size, teaser, targetted, bright, cheeky, just add that 12 months to my ashortly-to-expire premium, cheers Rover |
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Rover
Site Admin
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
Posts: 16189
Location: North of the Limpopo
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Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:07 pm |
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Badgerbait
Baiting Guru
Joined: 07 Jan 2009
Posts: 4507
Location: Winter spites...
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Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:09 pm |
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This is killing me! No time with a good enough program to build one and I have a few great ideas!!!! |
_________________ I have arrived in Moscow. Has gone to bank and to me have told that there is no such transfer for me!!!!
What does it mean? You played with me? If it so that you very much the cruel man and I am assured of that that the god will see your cruelty.
Explain to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Alena Byk0va
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I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. -Hamlet, scene iv
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manbiteslion
Baiting Guru
Joined: 12 Dec 2007
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Location: Connecting my chair and keyboard
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Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:20 pm |
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Rover wrote: |
Would be nice if I could read the writing though. |
Reading is overrated - everyone has read enough of these to read it as 'blah blah blah' anyway...
But seeing as it's you and you asked kinda nicely...
btw if you want the text in eater.ttf, PM and it'll be done... |
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Rover
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Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:21 pm |
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manbiteslion
Baiting Guru
Joined: 12 Dec 2007
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Location: Connecting my chair and keyboard
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Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:31 pm |
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Rover wrote: |
@manbiteslion Why not drop a 50 - 75% opaque white background around the text then turn it black. That should make it pop a tad. |
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extremeb
419Eater is my life
Joined: 29 Sep 2010
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Fri Oct 29, 2010 2:07 am |
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Rover wrote: |
@extremeb - Nice perhaps we can play with the colours a bit. |
Added colour (and small graphic)
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my desire longs for your wet virginal which I intend to perfectly crest to a very high sense of you reaching a desirable organisms
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evil_sheep
Compulsive Self Abuser
Joined: 15 Jul 2010
Posts: 1100
Location: 419eater Passport office.
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Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:11 am |
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Just to be a helpful, sharing, caring kinda sheep:
http://www.trueknowledge.com/q/5%3A00_pm_est_in_the_uk wrote: |
When it is the time 5:00pm in Eastern Standard Time (the American time zone UTC -5)?
11:00pm British Summer Timezone |
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_________________ x11 x3
"I thank you for your quick massage this morning. " - Prince Abdul Hakeem
"u lied. i know u as black man" - Timothy Fred
"Get out. If you mail me again, i will destroy your mailbox." - Clydesdale Bank PLC.
"picece of shit gett off here junkie" "arse hole like u" "u r a bullshit around the corner" "fuck off and die" "is that how you write ur father?" "do u need some crack from Brazil?" "please leave me alone" - Dr. Mohamed Gaza
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manbiteslion
Baiting Guru
Joined: 12 Dec 2007
Posts: 4816
Location: Connecting my chair and keyboard
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Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:58 am |
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Rover
Site Admin
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
Posts: 16189
Location: North of the Limpopo
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Fri Oct 29, 2010 3:12 pm |
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evil_sheep
Compulsive Self Abuser
Joined: 15 Jul 2010
Posts: 1100
Location: 419eater Passport office.
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Fri Oct 29, 2010 4:24 pm |
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TWOFT.
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_________________ x11 x3
"I thank you for your quick massage this morning. " - Prince Abdul Hakeem
"u lied. i know u as black man" - Timothy Fred
"Get out. If you mail me again, i will destroy your mailbox." - Clydesdale Bank PLC.
"picece of shit gett off here junkie" "arse hole like u" "u r a bullshit around the corner" "fuck off and die" "is that how you write ur father?" "do u need some crack from Brazil?" "please leave me alone" - Dr. Mohamed Gaza
FREE BEER!
"Baiting is like sex. If it does go pear-shaped, pull out, get a new email address and try again from a different angle." - Me
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manbiteslion
Baiting Guru
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Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:22 pm |
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Evil sheep - I see nothing. Did you upload them to your premium Eater webspace and then place the image URL within [img ] amd [ / img] (excluding spaces) tags?
You will need to work pronto if you don't want uncle Rover to lock yo ass |
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extremeb
419Eater is my life
Joined: 29 Sep 2010
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Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:23 pm |
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@sheep They all show up ok for me (using IE8) except for the 120x600 (5th from the bottom) looks like its just missing |
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extremeb
419Eater is my life
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Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:26 pm |
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Gag ad - Ok...so it was a slow day at work
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my desire longs for your wet virginal which I intend to perfectly crest to a very high sense of you reaching a desirable organisms
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evil_sheep
Compulsive Self Abuser
Joined: 15 Jul 2010
Posts: 1100
Location: 419eater Passport office.
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Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:49 pm |
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manbiteslion - they work fine in IE, just not all together in Firefox.
You can view them actual files in Firefox (one at a time) without any problems..
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_________________ x11 x3
"I thank you for your quick massage this morning. " - Prince Abdul Hakeem
"u lied. i know u as black man" - Timothy Fred
"Get out. If you mail me again, i will destroy your mailbox." - Clydesdale Bank PLC.
"picece of shit gett off here junkie" "arse hole like u" "u r a bullshit around the corner" "fuck off and die" "is that how you write ur father?" "do u need some crack from Brazil?" "please leave me alone" - Dr. Mohamed Gaza
FREE BEER!
"Baiting is like sex. If it does go pear-shaped, pull out, get a new email address and try again from a different angle." - Me |
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BluthBanana
Baiting Guru
Joined: 16 Sep 2008
Posts: 2260
Location: Balboa Towers
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Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:21 pm |
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FrumpyBB
Baiting Guru
Joined: 22 Nov 2006
Posts: 5988
Location: Germany
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Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:56 pm |
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bobdemol wrote: |
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I must say I like this one most it surely would have made me curious in summer 2006! Stresses the fun element in baiting. |
_________________ SIR,I DON'T ENTERTAIN RIGMAROLE AND THERE IS NO ROOM FOR DILLY- DALLY.
the ball is in your cult
x 5 ARK & Co. incl. 1 safari w/ RS17 & NTBS
Dan the lotto man, ARK mugu wedding
Dennis the hitman, co-bait w/ Murry Guru
Zake (w/ SH, SL & Craig)
x 5 Modeling Mugu Meeting, w/ mewing_ghecko & Otterfan & SSC
x 2 another MMM w/ SH
x 13 Later shows and trips for the benefit of M00seknuckle, incl. the 0budu Fact Finding Mission
Come to our Eater University Baiting Tutorials Cos you deserve it. x5 x50+ x 4 -- |
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Rover
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Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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Location: North of the Limpopo
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Fri Oct 29, 2010 9:02 pm |
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Slightlyoutofit
Baiting Guru
Joined: 13 Feb 2007
Posts: 14310
Location: Foraging for Nuts.
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Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:09 pm |
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And the mods have voted!!
The good news is that I didn't win.
The bad news is that none of the other entries did either!!
Yes. They're a picky lot these moderators. They demand perfection. And although, so far, there have been some very good entries, there's nothing that's just pushed them over the edge and had them running around, screaming in delight.
So it's been decided that the competition will be re-opened and kept running until we see something we think is going to be a mind-blower.
A few little pointers:
Try to keep the wording to a minimum. No life stories or lengthy tirades against the lads!!
Try to keep the backgrounds simple. Nothing too gaudy or busy.
Try to keep the content simple. Remember, short and catchy always makes the best advert.
Try to keep baiter "in-jokes" to a minimum - we're looking for something that anyone can understand.
Try to keep the "technical" jargon that we baiters use to a minimum - you may know what a NOK scam is, but would a passer-by?
And unfortunately, the words "Shitfuckery", "Unhetero" and "Cock-wallet" are inadmissable in your entries. God knows, I fought to have them included but you know how it is...
Put yourself in the place of a person who knows absolutely nothing about scam-baiting or 419 fraud. How do you think that you can grab their attention with your banner?
Short and punchy should be the way to go.
So come on!! Back to the drawing board and get busy!!
Or I might make another one and it will definitely win (I'll rig the voting and some mods are easier to buy than others).
Good Luck!!! |
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God will see you true for all this you have done to me you bastard. - Collins Kalu
MAY THE HAND THAT TYPE ON KEYBORD BECOME STRICKEN AND TRANSMIT VIRUS TO YOU ENTIRE BODY. - Dr Linda Akeem
oh what a mess its time cabbage punks like u will be expose for trully what they are. - David Cole |
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manbiteslion
Baiting Guru
Joined: 12 Dec 2007
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Wed Nov 03, 2010 1:25 am |
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I would argue that someone who knows nothing about 419 fraud should be heading over to scamwarners, not coming here... Not knowing about baiting, well ok, that's fine, but it's too much of a journey to take a load of net newbies right from cold to baiting whilst explaining about internet scammers in a single static image, it confuses people? A banner ad is an invitation to click to find out more, not an infomercial itself. Look at the google ads we get on this site, even the text ones are teasers, not essays. Including the thinly veiled pyramid/MLM wealth seminars ones.
I see the demographic breakdown for eater, to me it suggests an audience who will be generally more au fait with at least some of the scams they see in their inboxes, and they're the ones we will get the best conversion rates to new baiters with, not the web newbie grannies, etc. Baiters need a sense of mischief and adventure, then be helped to explore that.
But I would argue that, as that was exactly where I targeted that banner ad - to juxtapose the imagery with the text which our audience will tend to recognise, without having to spell out what baiting was as they'd find out quickly enough on landing here. Perhaps if there is a more precise brief as to what we are trying to achieve as an end result (who to attract, what we offer them, why us, do we just want readers, or baiters, target audience if not the demographics in the post)? Part of what my company does is targetted messaging for companies (and friends run ad and PR agencies), so an explicitly stated requirement will generally mean it's easier to satisfy that requirement. |
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evil_sheep
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Wed Nov 03, 2010 8:48 am |
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^^^
What he said. |
_________________ x11 x3
"I thank you for your quick massage this morning. " - Prince Abdul Hakeem
"u lied. i know u as black man" - Timothy Fred
"Get out. If you mail me again, i will destroy your mailbox." - Clydesdale Bank PLC.
"picece of shit gett off here junkie" "arse hole like u" "u r a bullshit around the corner" "fuck off and die" "is that how you write ur father?" "do u need some crack from Brazil?" "please leave me alone" - Dr. Mohamed Gaza
FREE BEER!
"Baiting is like sex. If it does go pear-shaped, pull out, get a new email address and try again from a different angle." - Me |
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Slightlyoutofit
Baiting Guru
Joined: 13 Feb 2007
Posts: 14310
Location: Foraging for Nuts.
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Wed Nov 03, 2010 8:59 am |
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manbiteslion wrote: |
Perhaps if there is a more precise brief as to what we are trying to achieve as an end result (who to attract, what we offer them, why us, do we just want readers, or baiters, target audience if not the demographics in the post)? Part of what my company does is targetted messaging for companies (and friends run ad and PR agencies), so an explicitly stated requirement will generally mean it's easier to satisfy that requirement. |
@manbiteslion.
Not knowing about 419 fraud is no handicap and doesn't require someone to visit scamwarners. I joined Eater without having ever read anything about 419 and I'd wager that plenty of other people here did the same. I'd never heard of baiting, received minimal scam mail and just landed on the off-chance being linked here from another site.
To answer your question above. We're looking to attract people like you. People with some semblance of intelligence who enjoy the sort of thing we do here (it takes a few brain cells to be able to bait). We're looking for readers and baiters.
Demographically, if I recall some of the polls posted here about the makeup of our membership, a slim majority tend to be 20-50 (so a broad age range) and are professional or white collar workers.
But (and this is a huge "but"), Eater attracts the whole cross section of society from 80 year old grandfathers who live in dumpsters (like Pastor Frank) to 18 year old whizz kids (like myself). Trying to pigeon-hole is going to be very hard as we literally attract every age group, career type and both genders - hence why I've restricted the description of the target audience in my post above to the "general public". |
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God will see you true for all this you have done to me you bastard. - Collins Kalu
MAY THE HAND THAT TYPE ON KEYBORD BECOME STRICKEN AND TRANSMIT VIRUS TO YOU ENTIRE BODY. - Dr Linda Akeem
oh what a mess its time cabbage punks like u will be expose for trully what they are. - David Cole |
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bobdemol
Baiting Guru
Joined: 30 Dec 2008
Posts: 2212
Location: Belgium
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Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:59 am |
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Try to keep the wording to a minimum. No life stories or lengthy tirades against the lads!!
Try to keep the backgrounds simple. Nothing too gaudy or busy.
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OK then...
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_________________ yOU WICKED AND EVIL MAN,PERISH TO HELL WHERE YOU BELONG - Obinna
You have made me get to take my drugs. -Claude Dominique after ticking over 1000 boxes-
FOR THE LAST TIME DONT EVER SENT ME EMTY SLIP AGAIN -Barrister Mustapha-
why must you act like childish game. -Eng Uzeze-
why are u so stupid and fullish like that go to hall. u idiot - Topman Stephen
LOOK AM SICK AND TYRED WITH ALL THIS TAMBAMBLING OF YOUR. -Barr. Bulunga-
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CookieMonster
Master Baiter
Joined: 30 May 2010
Posts: 157
Location: Your Pantry
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Wed Nov 03, 2010 11:27 am |
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agreed bobdemol. |
_________________ Bait lazy, ask me how.
12 Months (on-going) - Vinod
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x3 - Vinod |
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