The Mastodonte Project
October 31, 2002 5:09 AM Subscribe
The Mastodonte Project is a way of inserting comments into the referrer logs of the company who are inserting adverts into blogger's referrers... they were not expecting Mastodonte to publish the results!
See this post from last Thursday for context, as well as this Blogroots post.
posted by mcwetboy at 5:27 AM on October 31, 2002
posted by mcwetboy at 5:27 AM on October 31, 2002
sounds like a regular metafilter discussion
No, it's not MetaFilter unless someone gets called a fuckwit.
posted by dg at 5:28 AM on October 31, 2002
No, it's not MetaFilter unless someone gets called a fuckwit.
posted by dg at 5:28 AM on October 31, 2002
on my site i'm detecting 'mastodonte' in the user agent field and redirecting to goatse.cx.
posted by quonsar at 5:30 AM on October 31, 2002
posted by quonsar at 5:30 AM on October 31, 2002
Oh, there's plenty of fuckwits now. And a few "Hi, MetaFilter!"s as well. Most of the inserts are pretty predictable, but somehow I really like -
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY A SMALL CAMERA? NO? YOU CAN MEET GIRLS WITH IT! BUY ONE
- elegant.
posted by yhbc at 5:37 AM on October 31, 2002
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY A SMALL CAMERA? NO? YOU CAN MEET GIRLS WITH IT! BUY ONE
- elegant.
posted by yhbc at 5:37 AM on October 31, 2002
Oh god, images are showing up now. I can't believe how hard I'm laughing.
posted by mcwetboy at 5:45 AM on October 31, 2002
posted by mcwetboy at 5:45 AM on October 31, 2002
I've got the following sites in my logs who appear to be offering the same sort of thing: sucessmath.com, americatopdown.com, thecitylofts.com and datashaping.com.
posted by ralawrence at 5:46 AM on October 31, 2002
posted by ralawrence at 5:46 AM on October 31, 2002
They are publishing the comments as they come in... this is a cool and unexpected development... :)
posted by LMG at 5:50 AM on October 31, 2002
posted by LMG at 5:50 AM on October 31, 2002
Damn, no I can't. The text got clipped. The idea was to link from here to a comment on the referer page that would link back to this comment on Metafilter.
Sad I know :o)
posted by ralawrence at 5:51 AM on October 31, 2002
Sad I know :o)
posted by ralawrence at 5:51 AM on October 31, 2002
Err, be careful. You can break it like i did. It clipped my comment and I had an open < which meant that nothing else appeared. Had to send a > to close the tag and allow other comments to appear.
posted by ralawrence at 5:53 AM on October 31, 2002
posted by ralawrence at 5:53 AM on October 31, 2002
Well this was also on slashdot, so some of the responses are slashdotesque.
posted by mkelley at 5:58 AM on October 31, 2002
posted by mkelley at 5:58 AM on October 31, 2002
after we've all finished being silly about it, we can get them to remove our domains/blogs from their target list...
Opt-out? Send us your URL: opt-out@mastodonte.com
We think it's our customer's best interests to keep our database clean of blogs that prefer not to receive our ads.
also would a redirect in an .htaccess file do the same thing as Mo and Marcia's asp and php scripts...? like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} http://mastodonte.com/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.losers.org/
posted by t r a c y at 6:30 AM on October 31, 2002
Opt-out? Send us your URL: opt-out@mastodonte.com
We think it's our customer's best interests to keep our database clean of blogs that prefer not to receive our ads.
also would a redirect in an .htaccess file do the same thing as Mo and Marcia's asp and php scripts...? like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} http://mastodonte.com/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.losers.org/
posted by t r a c y at 6:30 AM on October 31, 2002
I'm not sure if I want to opt-out or not, they haven't hit my url yet and I'm afraid it's a trap :P
posted by Jimmy Olsen at 6:34 AM on October 31, 2002
posted by Jimmy Olsen at 6:34 AM on October 31, 2002
after we've all finished being silly about it
Don't hold your breath...
posted by backOfYourMind at 6:51 AM on October 31, 2002
Don't hold your breath...
posted by backOfYourMind at 6:51 AM on October 31, 2002
Tracy, the referer field would not contain 'mastodonte.com' - it would contain the url of whichever site they are trying to advertise in our logs.
posted by dutchbint at 8:58 AM on October 31, 2002
posted by dutchbint at 8:58 AM on October 31, 2002
Does anyone realize the referral spam company is loving every minute of this? All publicity is good publicity, why else would the company knowingly publish their referral stats?
answer: because it got them plastered on slashdot, metafilter, and a thousand other blogs. You can't buy publicity like that.
posted by mathowie at 10:17 AM on October 31, 2002
answer: because it got them plastered on slashdot, metafilter, and a thousand other blogs. You can't buy publicity like that.
posted by mathowie at 10:17 AM on October 31, 2002
dg, it's not MeFi until someone says:
I, for one, welcome our new Mastodante overlords!
And i do!
posted by billsaysthis at 3:23 PM on October 31, 2002
I, for one, welcome our new Mastodante overlords!
And i do!
posted by billsaysthis at 3:23 PM on October 31, 2002
Hi MetaFilter!Don't touch my van, sucka!
Enhances the readability for me. Really.
posted by trondant at 3:48 PM on October 31, 2002
Enhances the readability for me. Really.
posted by trondant at 3:48 PM on October 31, 2002
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Go fuck yourselves.
you suck!
Fuckers
GO AND DIE
you SUCK.
sounds like a regular metafilter discussion
posted by carfilhiot at 5:25 AM on October 31, 2002