Controversy Erupts Over Craigslist Prank

An anonymous reader writes to mention something of an ongoing controversy over a recent Craigslist prank. Waxy.org has the full details: "On Monday, a Seattle web developer named Jason Fortuny started his own Craigslist experiment. The goal: 'Posing as a submissive woman looking for an aggressive dom, how many responses can we get in 24 hours?' He took the text and photo from a sexually explicit ad in another area, reposted it to Craigslist Seattle, and waited for the responses to roll in ... '178 responses, with 145 photos of men in various states of undress. Responses include full e-mail addresses (both personal and business addresses), names, and in some cases IM screen names and telephone numbers.' In a staggering move, he then published every single response, unedited and uncensored, with all photos and personal information to Encyclopedia Dramatica." The Wired blog 27B Stroke 6 has analysis of the prank, which author Ryan Singel views as 'sociopathic'. He then follows that up with responses to comments from his analysis, with further exploration of the weighty issues this juvenile prank has brought up.

Comments

The jokes on you!

[BadAnalogyGuy]

I stole the picture I sent from another site! Ha Ha!

Re:The jokes on you!

[sjwaste]

Obligatory...

You have a woman dressed in leather, down on all fours, with a dog collar around her neck and some man is pushing a leather glove in her face. How is that not offensive?

Look, you should've seen what they wanted to put on the cover. And it wasn't a glove, I'll tell you that much.

This is not exactly a new trick

[Anonymous Coward]

"Send me a picture of your cock -- I'll suck the best one - w4m" got about 22 replies that made me very, very sad about Gmail autodisplaying images, and very, very sad that I was on the particular mailing list used to post the ad.

Re:This is not exactly a new trick

[Anonymous Coward]

That's what you get for subscribing to the gay sex mailing list.

Re:This is not exactly a new trick

[cerberusss]

"Send me a picture of your cock -- I'll suck the best one - w4m"

I sent a picture of my Golden Retriever.

Re:This is not exactly a new trick

[spun]

"Send me a picture of your cock -- I'll suck the best one - w4m"

I sent a picture of my Golden Retriever.

I sent in a picture of Foghorn Leghorn.

Ahhhhhhhh!!!

[Mikachu]

Why did he have to post all the information! I'LL NEVER WORK IN SEATTLE AGAIN :(

Thanks a lot Jason, you jerk

I feel for these suckers

[svunt]

I once had a friend on IRC ask me to read a piece of erotic fiction she'd read and provide feedback. No problem, she links me to the story, which is at an erotic literature website, which requires me to register. Little did I know that a list of their users was online, and it only took a week until my name in Google yielded its first ever result, linking me to shitty home-made wank stories. The point is, you get burned, you learn your lesson. I just feel sorry for these poor saps who didn't learn their lesson in a lower-impact fashion. Regarding the guy who did this: There's clever, and there's easy. Guess which your joke is, cocksmoker?

Re:I feel for these suckers

[Anonymous Coward]

Err, yes. I TOO have an IRC "friend" who asked me to download a file to verify the FTP to his server was working. We did indeed verify the connection and i was able to get the files. I didn't know at the time that those files contained a man and a goat in an unnatural...

awww...i give up! My wife didn't believe me so why would any of you freaks here?

Re:I feel for these suckers

[Anonymous Coward]

Back when I still lived in the valley and still programmed for a living, I used to smoke pot and drink with some coworkers and for laughs one night we setup a vmware sysstem to use as a honeypot and went to a newsgroup and downloaded horrendous pictures. One of them was from a post titled something like "the ugliest fucking transvestite I've ever seen". Anyway, we had redhat 5(I think it was 5) running on it, no ipchains, no patches, just right out of the box full of security holes, save we setup logging to dump to another machine. It took a few days for it to get owned, but it did. There was just something immensely hilarious about going through the logs and seeing that whoever it was gave up looking at the porn pics after about the 5th picture(there was about 20 horrific pics and they had been renamed with reasonable sounding names like 18yroldhottie). He wasn't crazy about the stories either apparently.

I would have given anything to see the look on that face.

Re:Did you get your Internet connection yesterday.

[Schraegstrichpunkt]

That's a spelling-nazi tip, dummy!

Your friend, the Accuracy-Nazi

Re:What a pathetic little asshole

[avenj]

Maybe not, but does really seriously pissing off 178 "aggressive doms" seem like a smart move to you? Hmmmm...

Swan Cramming

[BadAnalogyGuy]

There's nothing more erotic than the feeling of the laryngeal muscles of a swan flapping wildly against your forearm as you slowly push a handful of oats into its belly. Once the bird faints from exhaustion and the muscles go slack, the sensation of limpness and the smooth, slippery bile-coated esophagus are akin to the finest silk pulled gently across the naked back. Imagine, if you will, the pleasure in consuming the regurgitated oats that spew from the fowl's beak and licking the dewy eyeballs of the near-death bird.

Now to click the Post Anon box to keep my identity a secret.

So THAT explains it!

[BeeBeard]

So THAT's why I never got a reply! My self esteem was taking a pretty big hit there, what with my sending pictures of my erect penis to a complete stranger (which is a perfectly reasonable and intelligent thing to do, by the way), and then not getting back a reply. I'm just glad we live in a world where you can do such a thing with absolutely no repercussions, ever.

Poets are shitty

[walnutmon]

Poets Are Shitty
A Haiku by Walnut mon

Poets are shitty,
Pretentious and retarded,
Poets are so gay,

Re:What an idiot

[mrchaotica]

There's one thing though. If he's a heterosexual male, you have to feel sorry for the fact he saw the genitalia of other men.

No you don't. Not at all, in fact. Why? because he asked for it!

His resume is fucking hilarious

[Anonymous Coward]

http://web.archive.org/web/20050223012842/rfjason. com/resume/?page=resumecomplete Sites: http://rubberstampmanagement.com/Default.htm Jason Fortuny Kirkland, WA. RFJason@RFJason.com 425-443-1573 "It's like getting three employees for the price of one." "I can learn new technology in a matter of hours instead of weeks like other technical people." "Went on sabbatical from RSM for six months to enrich customer service experience." "Developed cost-reduced method for letterhead and business card printing."

Re:It's perhaps time people understood

[paanta]

Hell yeah. Whenever *I* send pictures of my tender bits to total strangers, I use my favorite creative commons license:

You are free:
* to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work after blurring all identifying features of the author or licensor.
* to make derivative works

Under the following conditions:
* No Attribution. You must not attribute the work to the author or licensor.
* Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
* No Masturbation. No one may ever use this image as part of some sick fantasy.

You did it wrong

[ari_j]

You're supposed to say you're an extremely wealthy, young medical doctor who is a cross between Brad Pitt and Doogie Hawser who makes $950,000 a year developing cures for third-world orphans. Then you get naked pictures of foolish but beautiful young women instead of lonesome, horny Slashdotters.

Re:It's perhaps time people understood

[Anonymous Coward]

"What if, instead of SoM, I bought a quadruple-headed dildo, complete with ground effects, on Ebay? Is it okay then?"

I am very interested in your product and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Re:He lives in my apartment complex!

[slightlyspacey]

So now I'm worried that some of these furious men will come after him and will instead throw their rocks through my windows, or worse. I feel like my well-being has been potentially endangered by this guy. What should I do?

Might I humbly suggest this as a potential solution?

Re:He lives in my apartment complex!

[Per Wigren]

Or maybe this... :)

Re:Bait an Obvius Fake. Re:The jokes on you!

[Anonymous Coward]

This is modded 'Insightful'? God save Slashdotters!

I'd go King Henry on him.

[CompMD]

Will no one rid humanity of this meddlesome jerk?

This guy ranks right under Fred Phelps in my book. If this guy was hit by a bus tomorrow, lived, only to get run over by a truck three seconds later, who would cry for him?