Tydeth wrote on Mar 31^st, 2011 at 7:42pm:


Think virus laden promotions that encouraged collection of your private data by fourth parties for doing surveys etc in exchange for Turbine Points.

Sounded like someone in upper management said 'this sounds great! Make it happen!' before some of the legal and technical minefields were properly explored.

And when they did tighten it down to the safe stuff the maxim 'there is no such thing as a free lunch' was proven to the point it was worthless and quietly dropped.

In fairness to Turbine facebook and many other companies were doing the same thing at the time.

Well this is my interpretation anyway

Imagine clicking random links on porn sites and then imagine that clicking on said links was safer than the offer wall

Eladiun wrote on Apr 1^st, 2011 at 9:18am:



Then imagine that Turbine encouraged you to click on those links by providing you free Turbine Points when you did, but never told you about any of the "side benefits" of clicking on the links.

Just linking to the OFFER wall SENT YOUR BILLABLE ACCOUNT NAME TO THE COMPANY.

Not your anonymous message board name, your actual physical, BILLABLE ACCOUNT NAME.

Whoever was the idiot programmer that OKd the sending of the BILLABLE account name has never been admitted publicly.

The idea was to send your marketing information to the offer wall company, began with an S, and their spam partners.  In return, you received 100,000s of spam emails and 5 to 100 turbine points.  The spam emails would keep coming and coming, but you ONLY received the turbine points ONCE.