Fesshole š§»In three different companies, I had to submit reports to the board on a monthly basis. I started putting in a line that said "if you read this, call me and I'll give you Ā£XX". I started at Ā£10, and went up by Ā£10 per month. Nobody ever called, nobody ever mentioned it.
jack
Future SprogI had a similar interaction but from the other side: a tool I wrote was used by thousands of students and it had one of those āagree to terms and conditionsā boxes that every student had ticked.
They hadnāt read the terms and conditions because they were only three paragraphs long and the second paragraph offered a free bakery item of your choice if you contacted me. It included my office details and phone number.
One student ever contacted me. One!!!
Kevin Karhan 
@futuresprog @jackeric @fesshole the best prank I knew was a comprehension test cloaked as math exam.
The instructions read: "Please read the text fully and follow the instructions at the bottom of the last page page." followed by a dozen pages of complicated math and at the end it said: "once completed reading, please wait 15 minutes, add your name to the provided envelope and submit all the pages and your notes by placing your envelope at the desk and raise an arm, a proctor will collect said envelope ajd instruct you further."
- So panic ensured when the first people handed in their exams after 30 minutes, when the exam was scheduled to take up to 3 hours.
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency@futuresprog @jackeric @fesshole I also had a kind-of opposite experience to this - I once worked as a marketing manager for a retailer with a fairly specific audience & one of my jobs was our newsletter. We didn't have many subscribers & were unsure if they even read the emails, so for one Xmas I put something like "if you read this far, reply back to be in our Xmas lottery for [reasonably valuable item]" as the last line.
We got several hundred responses š