People often ask me about what software I write

[sarettah]

Because I do primarily custom work for clients I don't have much to show people.

Years ago I did a software package which had a pretty good acceptance but I found supporting every person who wanted something "extra" to be very tedious and I eventually lost interest. Since it was a free package there was no harm and no foul.

For the past 5 years though, I have been working on a package in the mainstream sector. We have been through rigorous beta and live testing and today I am ready to show it to the world, or at least the folks here at GFY. I think this one is worth millions and across 5 years time I haven't lost interest in it for a second, it is my passion, my Opus if you will.

Since it is targeted towards a mainstream population I posted it in the mainstream section http://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1087732.

So, if you are one of the people who have asked me for examples, or just someone who may be interested in my services at some point or you just want to see some cool software then you can go ahead and check it out. http://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1087732

Thanks for looking

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[bigluv]

Wow, a spammer tool. You must be so proud.

[sarettah]

Wow, a spammer tool. You must be so proud.

Any tool can be used for the good that it was designed for or for the evil that a user can think up for it.

It is not my fault that your mind immediately goes to the evil side of that equation.

I built it for good not for evil.

because I am a nice guy

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[bigluv]

No, you are obviously a scumbag.
With the nerve to come here for accolades to boot. Amazing!

[B.Barnato]

No, you are obviously a scumbag.
With the nerve to come here for accolades to boot. Amazing!

This thread is protected by the GFY Friendship Club. Move along now.

[d-null]

always good to see a female programmer in a normally male dominated world

[sarettah]

always good to see a female programmer in a normally male dominated world

Dude, sarettah is a dude. I don't know how many times across ten years I have had to say

SARETTAH IS A DUDE

A big oogly dude to boot

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[sarettah]

No, you are obviously a scumbag.
With the nerve to come here for accolades to boot. Amazing!

Moi?? Au contraire. I am the nicest guy in the whole world, just ask me.

You come up with an evil way to use a perfectly legitimate marketing tool and I'm the scumbag??



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[Klen]

Is it sarettah male version name of sarah?

[sarettah]

Is it sarettah male version name of sarah?

not that I know of. sarettah is the ass backwards of hatteras

[PR_Phil]

Moi?? Au contraire. I am the nicest guy in the whole world, just ask me.

You come up with an evil way to use a perfectly legitimate marketing tool and I'm the scumbag??



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I don't want to be in the middle of this, but I tried it out!

if it is perfectly legitimate, why is this the result of using your tool?

just asking.

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TOS Violation Report



TOS Violation Report
Thank you for reporting IP Address xxx.xx.x.xxx for violating the Craigslist Terms Of Service by utilizing an automated process to produce mass flagging against a section of Craigslist.

Craigslist depends on conscientious users like yourself to keep our community friendly and usable.

We take our Terms of Service very seriously and prosecute any and all violators to the full extent of the law.

IP Address xxx.xx.x.xxx has been reported to the FBI, the CIA and The Department of Homeland Security as automated processes are often used by criminal and terrorist organizations

Thank you again for bringing this situation to our attention.

We sincerely appreciate it.

Craigslist Management

[sarettah]

TOS Violation Report



TOS Violation Report
Thank you for reporting IP Address xxx.xx.x.xxx for violating the Craigslist Terms Of Service by utilizing an automated process to produce mass flagging against a section of Craigslist.

Craigslist depends on conscientious users like yourself to keep our community friendly and usable.

We take our Terms of Service very seriously and prosecute any and all violators to the full extent of the law.

IP Address xxx.xx.x.xxx has been reported to the FBI, the CIA and The Department of Homeland Security as automated processes are often used by criminal and terrorist organizations

Thank you again for bringing this situation to our attention.

We sincerely appreciate it.

Craigslist Management

That? That's nothing, just a little technical glitch. I have our developers Hopsing and Deepali working on it as I type this.

Nothing to worry about, really. I mean it.

[sarettah]

Ok, I just heard back from Deepali and he said "sir, I speak to Craigslist contact Rhaja and he say that a person call Craigslist and report the FlagHag 5000. Sir, he say that they report it as a "spammer tool". I tell Rhaja it is not spammer tool but marketing tool. Rhaja, he say ok and he say no worry you about the TOS. Sir, you ok sir"

So, we did not get detected, we were not blocked for any reason except that someone is a whiny baby who feels it is their duty to report stuff that they do not understand as somehow being a "spammer" tool.

I don't know anyone who could write software too get past whiny babies on the internet.

So, we stand on our 100% never detected, never blocked reputation

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[sarettah]

Just a bump for the evening shift

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[Helix]

Pow, Blam, Boom, and a bump for Sar.

[sarettah]

Pow, Blam, Boom, and a bump for Sar.

Lol.. Hey, I was moving files around the other night and I found fan signs that I made for you years ago.. ;p


How ya doin?

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[Helix]

Lol.. Hey, I was moving files around the other night and I found fan signs that I made for you years ago.. ;p


How ya doin?

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Hahaha...I probably still have that somewhere. That was quite a fews years ago. Damn..

Everything here is fine, just diversified. Had to develop both online and offline revenue streams to stay afloat ;)

[kane]

I just want to make sure I understand how this works.

I put an ad up on CL in the category of my choice then I can use your software to flag all the other ads in that category so they get deleted and I now I have the category to myself correct?

[Lace]

I just want to make sure I understand how this works.

I put an ad up on CL in the category of my choice then I can use your software to flag all the other ads in that category so they get deleted and I now I have the category to myself correct?

ding, ding, ding!

[sarettah]

I just want to make sure I understand how this works.

I put an ad up on CL in the category of my choice then I can use your software to flag all the other ads in that category so they get deleted and I now I have the category to myself correct?

No, no, no. To work best, you flag them all down and then put your ad up.

That way you don't kill your ad by accident.

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[kane]

No, no, no. To work best, you flag them all down and then put your ad up.

That way you don't kill your ad by accident.

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So how exactly is this no spamming? Sure, you aren't spamming your ad, but you are artificially manipulating the other's so that your's is in the first place. That seems pretty shady.

[sarettah]

So how exactly is this no spamming? Sure, you aren't spamming your ad, but you are artificially manipulating the other's so that your's is in the first place. That seems pretty shady.

It is simply employing a technological advantage to gain a competitive advantage.

It is "advantage shifting".


Yeah, that works


Edited in: for a much better explanation on exactly why this is not spamming please check out http://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1087775

Really.
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[BareBacked]

so you flag everyones add as spam ? how is that even remotely cool? or am I missing something

[sarettah]

or am I missing something

That would be a yes. ;p

[AdultPornMasta]

So how exactly is this no spamming? Sure, you aren't spamming your ad, but you are artificially manipulating the other's so that your's is in the first place. That seems pretty shady.

"Shady"?

Jesus.

Like a billboard along a highway is "shady".

"Oh, Gee! Sarattah is dong a better job at SEO than am I, so he MUST be SPAMMING!"

You, sir are a Class A DUMBSHIT!

[kane]

"Shady"?

Jesus.

Like a billboard along a highway is "shady".

"Oh, Gee! Sarattah is dong a better job at SEO than am I, so he MUST be SPAMMING!"

You, sir are a Class A DUMBSHIT!

Actually, no I'm not. Basically, what he is doing is reporting all the other posts in a category as being spam/bad so he can get the top spot. He does this regardless of whether they are legit posts or not. It is blackhat at best, but still shady.

To use your billboard analogy, it would be like him taking out a billboard along the highway and then going along and pasting big signs on all the other billboards saying bad things about those companies/products to discourage people from using them.

[hineken]

who does the flow?

[B.Barnato]

Can this be adapted to flag GFY posts insulting me?

[sarettah]

Actually, no I'm not. Basically, what he is doing is reporting all the other posts in a category as being spam/bad so he can get the top spot. He does this regardless of whether they are legit posts or not. It is blackhat at best, but still shady.

Is that what I'm doing? Because if it is, then yeah, that would be pretty slimy, wouldn't it?



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[sarettah]

Can this be adapted to flag GFY posts insulting me?

No, but it could probably be adapted to make gfy posts insulting you.

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[B.Barnato]

No, but it could probably be adapted to make gfy posts insulting you.

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Great, that would work too, how much for this customization?

[kane]

Is that what I'm doing? Because if it is, then yeah, that would be pretty slimy, wouldn't it?



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Am I not understanding how your software works?

You set it to flag all the other posts in a category, thus reporting them as bad/spam so you get them moved down and you stay at the top. How is that different?

[EriktheRabbit]

No, but it could probably be adapted to make gfy posts insulting you.

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Show us your tits!

[sarettah]

Am I not understanding how your software works?

You set it to flag all the other posts in a category, thus reporting them as bad/spam so you get them moved down and you stay at the top. How is that different?

Well, IF my program actually did something then maybe it would work like that.

But, the program is simply reading in a cl rss feed then looping through it and putting messages up on the screen saying it is deleting stuff once it goes through the one rss page it then redirects to a fake cl TOS violation page that for some reason seems to scare the beejeesus out of folks.

The program was written to create the illusion that it is doing in order to pull in rubes and have fun with them.

I guess it's a real good thing that nobody thought it was real because some people get real pissed off when they feel that they have been made to look foolish, ya know?

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[sarettah]

Great, that would work too, how much for this customization?

Probably take about twenty seventy hours and I get 46.5 ice cream sandwiches per hour so let's just call it an even zillion ice cream sandwiches, ok?

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[Nickatilynx]

LOL

I suppose there will be a real one , in what, let me guess...7 days? ;=))

How r u , you old sod?

[sarettah]

LOL

I suppose there will be a real one , in what, let me guess...7 days? ;=))

How r u , you old sod?

Non, no, no. It's

Two Weeks

;p

I is doing as fine as can be expected at my age, ya know;p

It's funny you popped in. I was tempted to use your name in vain yesterday.

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[Nickatilynx]

Yeah , I could just see an endorsement proclaiming :

"Nickatilynx , has a copy and he loves it". LOL

Love the way:
a) people bite
b) then they get so offended.

so easy.

[sarettah]

Yeah , I could just see an endorsement proclaiming :

"Nickatilynx , has a copy and he loves it". LOL

Love the way:
a) people bite
b) then they get so offended.

so easy.

Nah, you were going to be my proof that I am not a spammer. Something like "I personally got N to switch his ways and go fullly compliant double opt in. Just ask him", and then we could take it god and churches ;p


Btw, saw you and serge come in for S the other night. Thanks for that.

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[Nickatilynx]

Bless you my son

[BareBacked]

That would be a yes. ;p

so please explain how it works to us .

[k0nr4d]

If you're selling this for $20, and you sell say 1000 copies, won't craigslist catch on very quickly when all thier ads start vanishing because people are spamming them?

[candyflip]

Sounds like a pretty scummy way of marketing on Craigslist.

This is scummy asshole software, not spam software.

[sarettah]

so please explain how it works to us .

Sounds like a pretty scummy way of marketing on Craigslist.

This is scummy asshole software, not spam software.

If you're selling this for $20, and you sell say 1000 copies, won't craigslist catch on very quickly when all thier ads start vanishing because people are spamming them?

http://gfy.com/showpost.php?p=19292322&postcount=34

[sarettah]

If you're selling this for $20, and you sell say 1000 copies, won't craigslist catch on very quickly when all thier ads start vanishing because people are spamming them?

this one was by mistake. answered above.

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[helterskelter808]

The program was written to create the illusion that it is doing in order to pull in rubes and have fun with them.

I guess it's a real good thing that nobody thought it was real because some people get real pissed off when they feel that they have been made to look foolish, ya know?

Only problem is, the "joke" is the "software". The "joke" only works if people try it. And partly through to disinterest and partly due to the hapless way you wrote your posts, it seems like almost nobody tried it.

So basically the "joke" was: you took the time to start three different threads in two different forums claiming you wrote a shady program, and people criticized what you said you were selling. I'm not sure why that makes anyone look foolish but you. Nobody is 'pissed off' at anything other than what you said you were doing.

so please explain how it works to us .

Basically (for some reason) this guy went to the trouble of posting three threads claiming he did something, and thinks it's comedy gold that people assumed he wasn't lying.

[Yngwie]

Any tool can be used for the good that it was designed for or for the evil that a user can think up for it.

It is not my fault that your mind immediately goes to the evil side of that equation.

I built it for good not for evil.

because I am a nice guy

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always good to see a female programmer in a normally male dominated world

There seems to be a problem here. lol

[jawanda]

sarettah ... you have too much free time on your hands, man

[mce]

Do you do MLM referral software? I need one done for offline referrals. Also, I need a mainstream link building web script done... Can anyone help me?

[kane]

So there really is now software and this is a joke? Now I'm really confused.