2 definitions by Sir Robert Miller
1. n., a post-tech age noun that actually describes nothing at all; a virtual entity on bulletin boards and internet dating sites.
2. specifically, an ad or personal page for a person that in fact does not exist, using a picture that has been pirated from someone else, designed to entice or 'hook' people to respond to the ad, in order to gather the resulting email address and add it to a list for spamming; typically spamhooks accumulate the email address and then respond back to it with an advertisement for a porn site.
3. often an element of 'spamhook recursion', where spamhook #1 will gather your address and spam you to go get your rocks off at dating site #1, where dating site #1 will have various spamhooks listed with great looking females to create responses so you can be spammed about porn site #1, which has shocking photos and "members" to entice you to respond to who will spam you again about dating site #1. The recursion can be multiple layers deep, endless, and accumulative: site #1 can refer you to #3 which refers you back to #1 and also to #4 which refers you to #5 and also back to three leading to an cascade of spam that will fill your inbox and crash your email.
4. spamhooks create synergy: the common dating site spamhook is very demanding and "requires" a photo of you or the person (spamhook) won't even open your email; this photo you send will then be placed in a "m4w" ad, placed to an audience of women, and used to attract more pictures of women which may be placed in other "w4m" ads with pictures to attract more men's responses. Conspiracy theorists believe that when the number of photos available to spamhook builders approaches Avagadro's Number then the universe will onto Motorola's original 68000 computer chip.
5. made universally popular on Craigslist, where the latent spamhook lurks: this spamhook receives your response for a date, but waits to respond until the community "spamflags" the post down, so you are never exactly sure which ad or why generated the spam.
6. professional spamhooks never include your original message in their spamming reply, thereby adding more confusion and resulting camouflage to the process.
7. spamhooks are central to the Craigslist business model, and indeed, the Craigslist owners own various porn/spamming entities that are guaranteed a market because of the existence of Craigslist. Spam is not a problem on Craigslist. Rather, Craigslist exists BECAUSE of spam.
2. specifically, an ad or personal page for a person that in fact does not exist, using a picture that has been pirated from someone else, designed to entice or 'hook' people to respond to the ad, in order to gather the resulting email address and add it to a list for spamming; typically spamhooks accumulate the email address and then respond back to it with an advertisement for a porn site.
3. often an element of 'spamhook recursion', where spamhook #1 will gather your address and spam you to go get your rocks off at dating site #1, where dating site #1 will have various spamhooks listed with great looking females to create responses so you can be spammed about porn site #1, which has shocking photos and "members" to entice you to respond to who will spam you again about dating site #1. The recursion can be multiple layers deep, endless, and accumulative: site #1 can refer you to #3 which refers you back to #1 and also to #4 which refers you to #5 and also back to three leading to an cascade of spam that will fill your inbox and crash your email.
4. spamhooks create synergy: the common dating site spamhook is very demanding and "requires" a photo of you or the person (spamhook) won't even open your email; this photo you send will then be placed in a "m4w" ad, placed to an audience of women, and used to attract more pictures of women which may be placed in other "w4m" ads with pictures to attract more men's responses. Conspiracy theorists believe that when the number of photos available to spamhook builders approaches Avagadro's Number then the universe will onto Motorola's original 68000 computer chip.
5. made universally popular on Craigslist, where the latent spamhook lurks: this spamhook receives your response for a date, but waits to respond until the community "spamflags" the post down, so you are never exactly sure which ad or why generated the spam.
6. professional spamhooks never include your original message in their spamming reply, thereby adding more confusion and resulting camouflage to the process.
7. spamhooks are central to the Craigslist business model, and indeed, the Craigslist owners own various porn/spamming entities that are guaranteed a market because of the existence of Craigslist. Spam is not a problem on Craigslist. Rather, Craigslist exists BECAUSE of spam.
Friend #1 surfing the net: "Hey, look at this amazing babe here on Craigslist."
Friend #2: "Is she fat? Is she a single mother?"
Friend #1: "No."
Friend #2: "Don't even bother: she's a spamhook."
Friend #1: "Damn, and she likes showing her tits too."
Friend #2: "Is she fat? Is she a single mother?"
Friend #1: "No."
Friend #2: "Don't even bother: she's a spamhook."
Friend #1: "Damn, and she likes showing her tits too."
by Sir Robert Miller December 31, 2009
i.e., Secret Internet Tramp, a phrase of frustration originating in and around internet dating sites, and rumored to have originated from multiple clusterfuck pre-dating experiences with Craigslist.
1. a pathetic married female surfing the internet and responding to personal ads so she can get some positive attention in her life, but, because she is married, has no intention of ever meeting;
2. a married tramp looking to have e-adultery (cybersex, audiocyber, webcamcyber or phone sex) while her hardworking schmo of a husband busts his ass so she can buy new lingerie;
3. a selfish internet bitch SITting on your time with no intention of ever allowing that time to be productive;
4. any otherwise undateable female responding to personal ads as if it's a game with the premeditated intent to tease, seduce and lie to the ad poster for as long as possible with the endgame being that she will never meet the poster;
5. a subgroup of SIF: a lonely, disgustingly obese fatty responding to personal ads to fill out her day.
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1. a pathetic married female surfing the internet and responding to personal ads so she can get some positive attention in her life, but, because she is married, has no intention of ever meeting;
2. a married tramp looking to have e-adultery (cybersex, audiocyber, webcamcyber or phone sex) while her hardworking schmo of a husband busts his ass so she can buy new lingerie;
3. a selfish internet bitch SITting on your time with no intention of ever allowing that time to be productive;
4. any otherwise undateable female responding to personal ads as if it's a game with the premeditated intent to tease, seduce and lie to the ad poster for as long as possible with the endgame being that she will never meet the poster;
5. a subgroup of SIF: a lonely, disgustingly obese fatty responding to personal ads to fill out her day.
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Jimmy: I spent 6 days emailing this bitch, chatting her up, then she disappears - wtf?
Mike: You got sat on by a SIT!
Jimmy: I got what?
Mike: You got your time wasted by a Secret Internet Tramp who played with you but had no intention of meeting you.
Jimmy: I did get sat on by a SIT, the bitch.
Mike: You got sat on by a SIT!
Jimmy: I got what?
Mike: You got your time wasted by a Secret Internet Tramp who played with you but had no intention of meeting you.
Jimmy: I did get sat on by a SIT, the bitch.
by Sir Robert Miller October 19, 2008