Topic: Hey, remember that weird personality test that we all took a while back?
Anonymous A started this discussion 13 years ago#28,769
It's the one where we
looked at different shapes
and answered questions
about them. I had thought it
was a alternate reality game
and I sent them an email.
Well, they just send me a
new test. http://www.hypnoid.com/
psytestApr/ http://www.hypnoid.com/
psytestApr/EM_Beige_
Feb2011.html
Contents of the email:
Story of the Test:
There has been way more
interest in this thing than I
expected (since I expected
zero) and some people have
asked what it all means.
Here's the essentials: I
created the first one for a
client who paid me and then
basically fell off the radar.
About a year later they
contacted me about making
more tests and we began
the process. Unfortunately,
at that point I sent the first
one to a prospective client
as an example of my work,
and someone there
apparently posted the link
to Reddit.com. The version
on my site was an early test
copy in which I'd placed my
own email address in the
response link.
So about 100 people sent
emails asking me to
continue testing. Perhaps
unwisely, I decided to
amuse myself and created a
new test of my own design
that had no solution, which
I sent out to all the
respondents as a joke: http://www.hypnoid.com/
test2/
But then someone posted
the original, genuine test to
a site called i09 and I
received over 900 (and
counting) people who
wanted to sign up for more.
Unfortunately, at this point
the original client found out
about this and became
FURIOUS. Very, very mad.
Because I'd signed
confidentiality agreements
with them, they threatened
to... well, these people are
Austrian and so they are
very skilled at expressing
displeasure. I decided to
just lay low and plead
ignorance.
But then the client broke off
all contact. Their website is
impenetrable. I have gotten
absolutely no
acknowledgement of the
invoices I turned in. I
threatened to share the rest
of their tests unless they
responded... but no luck. So
to make good on my threat,
here's the new one.
Here's how it played out at
the time, in my blog:
July 27, 2008:
http:// www.deathstargiftshop.com/
?m=20080727
August 7, 2008:
http:// www.deathstargiftshop.com/
?m=20080807
August 14, 2008:
http:// www.deathstargiftshop.com/
?m=20080814
(second entry down)
August 18, 2008
http:// www.deathstargiftshop.com/
?m=20080818
(second one down)
September 11, 2008
http:// www.deathstargiftshop.com/
?m=20080911
December 20, 2009
http:// www.deathstargiftshop.com/
?m=200912