My friend the pyramid scheme

[feng_shui_house]

If you've been friended by denask and aren't happy about it then report it to LJ abuse. http://www.livejournal.com/abuse/report.bml

You can only make abuse reports if you are directly affected, so this is the first time I've filed one. I wonder what will happen. I know advertising journals are allowed, but I don't know if they're allowed to friend journals that didn't contact them first, and I don't know if they're allowed to advertise thinly veiled pyramid schemes at all (It says everyone who signs up after you earns you money).

Comments

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I suspect the denask thing is a test, to see how quickly LJ will boot them off. Otherwise, what's the point of friending a measely 41 journals?

Russian SPAM! I'm jealous. (not very, though. ;^)

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

I don't get Russian Spam, but I DO get Russian journals friending me. What's the point, when I can't read their journal anyway? I've never understood that.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

It's got to be an automated friending system- a 'bot' has no way of knowing what language a user knows. It's like regular spam- millions of exhortations to increase your virility are wasted on women because the 'bot' doesn't know anything.