{"id":603,"date":"2005-07-03T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T02:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=603"},"modified":"2005-07-03T19:43:07","modified_gmt":"2005-07-04T02:43:07","slug":"a-new-internet-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/03\/a-new-internet-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Internet Hoax?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Metafilter reports on a new Internet community of “Greenlighters”, people who wear green polo shirts with the collars turned up as a signal of sexual interest. Not surprisingly this “community” has a website<\/a>, which for now is down, but I can verify earlier today that it did have some postings on it. The site, which was registered yesterday, is in the name of [redacted], a University of Michigan<\/a> student. <\/p>\n

I can’t help (as some other MeFiers were as well), be reminded of the “toothing” hoax of 2004<\/a>, which Wired News<\/a>, among other publications, fell for.<\/p>\n

Update (8:03 pm): The forums are back.<\/a> Screen grab here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Also [redacted] replied to my email. Apparently it’s a site that he did for someone who hired him. <\/p>\n

Cyrus,<\/p>\n

Don’t ask me. Here’s what I posted when the local blogosphere attacked me:<\/p>\n

“Fine, fine. I’ll admit it. I own greenlighter.org. I did their logo
\nand bought the domain thinking they’d like the concept.”<\/p>\n

I’m just a designer. I designed their logo and made a mockup of the
\ncolor scheme, and they took off with it. The greenlighter.org domain
\nand “cool” CEL-shade thing was my idea, but aside from that I don’t
\nknow. Hell, I didn’t even look at the site to see what its content was
\nuntil everyone on the planet asked me wtf my name was doing on the
\nWHOIS.<\/p>\n

[rest of email redacted]<\/p>\n

[name redacted]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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