Comments on: Technological Admiration

By: Aimee

Aimee — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:17:02 +0000

i too was salmoned… nice person on the other end though lol!

By: Swimming Upstream | (d)N0T - dream not of today

Swimming Upstream | (d)N0T - dream not of today — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:01:48 +0000

[...] At last, I uncovered their conspiracy. I had been salmoned. [...]

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:05:39 +0000

It happened to me too, except I guess you’d call it “trouting” in my case. He was NumericTrout. Thanks for the post – it greatly alleviated fears! And like Karina, for me, it was Xanga, but his was a livejournal. Crazy man.

By: Karina

Karina — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:29:25 +0000

Ah! ….this exact thing happened to me less than ten minutes ago, although I’d like to note that it wasn’t a livejournal, but a xanga, we were both posting to; it seems this affects all (or, at least, more than one) free blog websites. Also, this may be just coincidence, but we’re both in the same time zone.

The most confusing part about the whole thing is that every IM we sent was sent to the other people as this “BalefulSalmon” character, so even in trying to figure out what was happening we were still hesitant that the other might be a bot.

Very very tricky, but seemingly harmless. Quite a bit of fun. :) (And thanks for the post. When I googled the screen name, this was the first thing that came up.)

By: Devon Young

Devon Young — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:37:40 +0000

That sounds aboslutely hilarious! Glad it wasn’t your stalker.

By: Salmoning: a bot-initiated two-way chat surprise

Salmoning: a bot-initiated two-way chat surprise — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:43:50 +0000

[...] nicks, giving them both aliases ending with "salmon," and leaving both parties confused. Like this guy says, once you figure out what’s going on when you’ve been salmoned, you can have a pretty good chat. [...]

By: Exposé! « Knight’s Trike

Exposé! « Knight’s Trike — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:49:32 +0000

[...] looking at. Imagine my surprise when I discover that I seem to be one of the only sources on a livejournal phenomenon called salmoning. In the past day i was discovered as this, and my readership has soared—of that one particular [...]