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Saygent Fine Calculator (saygent.com)
37 points by mattront on June 16, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


I've spent the last 10 minutes trying to get the largest fine. So far I've got http://saygent.com/?google_and_yahoo as the href and "Saygent iz fucking cute!!? :) :( :'( test xxx" as the text giving me a fine of $1,350,000.


Good use of humor, and a sincere apology/explanation.

I hadn't heard of Saygent before this incident; thought very little of them due to the $100K thing; and now they gave me a definite chuckle ("excessive use of punctuation").

Clearly good PR doesn't require a press release.


A great explanation of what happened with just enough self-effacing humor to make me like them. I'm not sure how the fine calculator ties into the rest of their business offerings ... perhaps it will be upgraded to accept voice input instead of this pesky typing stuff.


Would no terms of service at all be better than outsourcing it to some random person on a site which in general is a market where people get paid 5 bucks to do stupid stuff?


Nicely done. I love seeing people handle things like this with a little humor.


The page falls off my android browser




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