Corpse spam

The perils of print! Annabel Scheme is fixed to the page, so I can’t find a way to sneak this in somehow:

In World of Warcraft, sending commercial spam (e.g. offers to buy virtual gold) via the game’s messaging system will get you banned. The workaround? Spell your message out in corpses.

Here’s a screen-shot.

So weird. So awesome.

Via Noah Brier.

One Response

    Saheli says:

    So WoW doesn’t have street cleaning? Or cholera?

    It’s a little disconcerting that this and the new WSJ RSS feed both count as professionally relevant information for you.

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