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Palmdale, CA - Police apprehended Trey Hoskins, the web master of
humor site KornyToes, on multiple counts of link whoring.
"It's considered victimless crime by most of society so usually
we look the other way," said Officer Bev Griffin, "but
this was a case where the perp went too far. As an example
look at this story he used to solicit a Slashdot link:
Anime Linux Robots Devour Evil Microsoft Code on Open Source
Mars Colony while Transmetans Defend Privacy Rights for Red-Hatted
Apache Cryptographers. Meanwhile on Planet Hellmouth where
Quantum Flux was Discovered, Perl Programming Nanobots Crush
the Napsterian Rebellion by the Gnutellans.
And that was just the headline."
Pandering to other sites in his stories wasn't the only instrument
in his link whoring tool box. Trey was also the master of the
reciprocal link whoring. Take a look at this snippet from one
of his stories and its abhorrent use of links:
The potato was really hot, so I dropped it in her pants and she made FRENCH FRIES!!!!!!!
This blatant misuse of links is in clear violation of the link whoring
statute.
Jay Stile of The Stile Project who
filed charges against Mr. Hoskins said, "He kept sending me
emails every hour saying he had linked to me, and begging for a link
to his crappy little site. I got so sick of it that I had to
turn him in. That man gives link whoring a bad name."
Other webmasters had similar stories. Kyle Bennett of HardOCP said, "If I ever meet that pole
in person he'd get the fraggin' of his life."
And Treat Warland of SatireWire added, "I
don't know why he was bugging me for a link. My site doesn't
even get any hits."
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