{"id":1469,"date":"2009-03-23T08:38:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T11:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2009-06-24T18:19:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T22:19:07","slug":"ysac-vol-248-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"YSaC, Vol. 248: It’s w4m week, bitches!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reminder (and plea), folks: if you think the ad you’re sending me might get flagged for removal, copy and paste the ad<\/em> into your email! If you can include pictures, even better. Quite a few of the w4m ads that folks sent in disappeared between the time they were sent in and the time I got to them.<\/p>\n

Actually, it’s a good idea all around — when my job\/life gets in the way, sometimes I don’t get to look at listings until a couple of days later, and things do disappear off of Craigslist in that time. (Yes, I have to work! Believe it or not, this ad-free site does not<\/em> support me in the manner to which I desire to become accustomed. I don’t even have a lucrative book contract. I know, I know … there is no justice in this world.) <\/p>\n

Anyway, by the time I got to this one, the ad had been flagged; luckily, Emily had included the text in her email … but sadly, not the picture. Emily’s vivid description helps fill in the mental image, though.<\/p>\n

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I want to hear from a romantic man.. – 30<\/h2>\n
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some words that describe me are witty, sporty, optimistic, and single.
\nI am quite sweet, FEMALETRAITS2, FEMALETRAITS3, and FEMALETRAITS4.\u00a0 I have an hourglass figure, a beautiful face, and a beautiful personality to match!\u00a0 I am searching for a person who cares what I have to tell them.\u00a0 Please be sensitive, drama-free and sure of what you are looking for in a woman. If you like what you’ve read then just contactl me and we’ll go from there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Emily says, “How could any man pass her up? She’s looking for romance, that’s why she’s wearing eyeliner like a 14-year-old who hasn’t figured out the difference between slutty and sexy. And, don’t forget, she possesses not only FEMALETRAITS2 and FEMALETRAITS3, she’s also surprisingly, refreshingly<\/em> FEMALETRAITS4. If I were a man, I’d “contactl” her right now.”<\/p>\n

You know, I can never get the database merge function in Word to work either. (I always end up sending things to FIRSTNAME LASTNAME in CITY, ST.) I’d never have thought about failing to use database merge correctly to spam Craigslist with fake w4m ads. I guess that’s why I don’t earn the big bucks — I have a lack of vision on how to fail. <\/p>\n

Edited to add: Since I queued this one up, there have been articles on Reddit<\/a> (among others) about this very topic … apparently the Database Merge Fail Scenario is exactly what has been happening! If you do a google search for craigslist +femaletrait2<\/a>, you get a whole pile of results, tons of which point to deleted\/flagged Craigslist posts (or those posts aggregated to other sites) from the same stupid spammer.<\/p>\n

I’m very, very amused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reminder (and plea), folks: if you think the ad you’re sending me might get flagged for removal, copy and paste the ad into your email! If you can include pictures, even better. Quite a few of the w4m ads that folks sent in disappeared between the time they were sent in and the time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[23,10,78,11],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personals","tag-classy","tag-slimy","tag-turing-test-fail","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}