Viral marketing evolves further from the primordial mud: I first saw a thread, similar to this one, on my Warcraft realm forums. The thread is a chatty little bit about a Warcraft dating site, if you’re too lazy to click. Let’s say I saw this on Moonrunner, which I didn’t because I don’t play on Moonrunner so don’t look for me there. (Repeating: the answer is NOT Moonrunner.) Anyways … thinks me, “boy, that thread looks like a plant”, so I checked level 1 gnome Caseclosed’s post history, suspecting a viral marketer, however, the history looks pretty standard for yer average slack-jawed yokel. Hmmm. Searching back to page 3 of his history and earlier … the viral marketing is unmasked! (i.e. many, many duplicate posts chatting up the WoW dating site across many, many realms.) This joker made a bunch of “bla bla nerf this, buff my class” posts so that his history would stand up to a casual inspection. That had to take some effort. (Furl archives: Post history-page 1, Post history-page 3)