In early 2004 a new Internet phenomenon reached LiveJournal, that of the serial adder, widely believed to have begun with LJ user dave_the_great (http://www.livejournal.com/users/dave_the_great), who was bored and wanted to stir up trouble. He went about this by adding as many random people to his friends list as LJ would allow (current maximum being 750 users.) This led to dozens of people commenting and asking "who the hell are you and why did you add me?"
The situation was found so ridiculously amusing that it was repeated many times, with different gimmicks. Dave had no overriding gimmick, save for a hatred of pro-ana. Others relied on offensive usernames or ideologies, while some were more creative in annoying others. 1justin was the mastermind behind many of the more well crafted serial adders.
This eventually led to a change in LJ's code base, causing users who were banned from a journal to no longer appear in the "friend of" section of the userinfo page.
Most of the comments on a serial adder's journal are "Please remove me from your friends list", because people are humorless retards and really give a shit about who adds them.
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Date: 2006-01-26 06:20 pm (UTC)cnp'ed
Date: 2006-01-26 06:23 pm (UTC)The situation was found so ridiculously amusing that it was repeated many times, with different gimmicks. Dave had no overriding gimmick, save for a hatred of pro-ana. Others relied on offensive usernames or ideologies, while some were more creative in annoying others. 1justin was the mastermind behind many of the more well crafted serial adders.
This eventually led to a change in LJ's code base, causing users who were banned from a journal to no longer appear in the "friend of" section of the userinfo page.
Most of the comments on a serial adder's journal are "Please remove me from your friends list", because people are humorless retards and really give a shit about who adds them.
Re: cnp'ed
Date: 2006-01-26 06:32 pm (UTC)