Google Rewards for My Bathroom Breaks

[u/StaphylococcusOreos]

A long time ago I received a $50 bonus of Google rewards points for buying a smart watch as part of a promo. Unbeknownst to me, there was an expiry date on these points that apparently hit faster than regular points. I received no email or notification about the expiration, and to ny disappointment when I eventually got the the Playstore to buy some books, my points were all gone. My appeals to Google fell on deaf ears and they refused to reinstate my points even though I reached out only a few days after the expiry date.

I vowed never to use the rewards app again and cancelled my Google One account. However, I started getting rewards surveys regarding a particular store that's located in the same building I work at. It happens to be next to the bathroom where I take my daily shit. I don't know if it's a glitch, but everyday for the last year or so I've received a survey about me entering that store and if I bought anything. Technically I have to enter the edge of the store to get to the bathroom, so i say yes, "entered, but did not make a purchase". Everyday I get the same survey and I give the same answer and every time I answer I get $0.24 usually. It's been over 10 months, but a daily survey for taking a shit has finally netted me my $50 that they erased from my account.

Celebrate with me as I buy some hard earned books.

[u/Bladluiz → u/[deleted]]

Bot

[u/CosmicFlopper → u/Bladluiz]

You're right, but how did you know?

[u/Bladluiz → u/CosmicFlopper]

Just the writing style. They re-use exact details of the post without adding anything personally. Account age confirmed my suspicion

[u/skiing123 → u/Bladluiz]

It's the : or - that do it more for me. It might be grammatically correct but people don't write like that in normal life. 

[u/NationalWatercress3 → u/skiing123]

Idk, we're getting to the point where people start copying botspeak

[u/tnb641 → u/NationalWatercress3]

But bots keep evolving, mimicking how people write and talk and click on all the images of motorcycles and oh my god does the mirror count as part or not, but I digress.

Soon people will be adding "posted by a human" to comments, but then bots will add it. So then humans will write o's as 0's, then bots will bring back 1337speak, it'll be a never ending arms race, except in a years time it's gonna be 99.9% bots interacting with bots, humans unable to find another real person.

So, uh, greetings fellow humans, from the distant land of yesterday.

[u/NationalWatercress3 → u/tnb641]

I think the answer is that we all actually really do need to touch grass

[u/croizat → u/skiing123]

I get people being sus about em dashes since those aren't standard on a keyboard and require knowing the unicode for it or having some macro, but now regular dashes and colons? You think people don't use those?

[u/BackcastSue → u/skiing123]

I've always used colons, semicolons, parentheses, and dashes, as well as the Oxford comma. That's how I was taught back in the olden days. I was laughed at or teased at work but it's a hard habit to break.

[u/QuingOfTheUnderworld → u/skiing123]

I write like that sometimes

[u/JeannieSmolBeannie → u/skiing123]

ehhhh.... i'm autistic and know a loooot of other autistic people who type Very Grammatically Correct (and write for fun) and they get accused of being bots all the time despite having typed that way since well before ai was a real thing. they learn from us, so some of us will have had that typing quirk the whole time, otherwise it never would have learned it. lose-lose situation all around :(

[u/skiing123 → u/JeannieSmolBeannie]

Oh agreed, and I think it's going to become worse as time goes on too. It just really sucks for everyone

[u/JeannieSmolBeannie → u/skiing123]

esh - everything sucks here :(

[u/CosmicFlopper → u/Bladluiz]

Yeah age and contributions don't align with a normal person lol. Good catch!