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One of my first freelancing gigs was for a guy who maintained one of these.

He peddled this pills and had built an impressive (by 2009 standards) network of 87 WP installs with generated crap in them that linked heavily with each other, all on this OVH instance and had managed to break one of the plugins he used for this purpose, so he posted a bid on GetAFreelancer, which I won and never saw a cent for.

I'm still really pissed about that for some reason.




Which reminds me of a golden rule of freelancing: If they do scummy things, they’ll probably do scummy things to you.




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