This is fun – it’s a true-life narrative of an online correspondence of absurd proportions, the author having given an online scammer a taste of her own medicine. Now, it does run on a little long, a danger for any web page in this age of short-attention-span theater, but it is saved from obscurity by several key elements:
- A killer subtitle, one that sets you up for exactly what kind of experience you’re in store for if you keep reading, specific: “My 45-day quest to convince a craigslist scammer to write me a poem—and how she lost her mind and tried to become my friend”
- Actual evidence to accompany the retelling: The actual email threads themselves not only add credibility to the story, but they’re the best parts to read. Including them as links serves a duo-fold purpose—keeping the piece, already long, from being too long to even be readable and giving the site more pages to link to and index.
Not that we’re recommending you go out and torture anyone for the purpose of great link bait, but do ask yourself if you’ve already had any absurd exchanges or correpsondences in your own past that you just never considered as useful for any practical purpose.
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