YOU SHOULD TOTALLY JOIN THIS GROUP! · 6:08pm Oct 19th, 2014
There is a group that my friend gcwg57 is now an admin of and I am supposed to tell you to join it. It's called Under Rated Groups, and it's purpose is to shed light on groups that are awesome but didn't get the traction that they needed. Sadly, they can't do this unless they themselves get a ton of traction and members. Therefore you should all go and join it, like now. I mean it, go now, join it... Why are still reading this instead of joining the group? I mean your following me so your obviously someone that just does things "because". Your totally the perfect people for this group. No really you guys are great for support, this group needs you. Okay, if your still reading this and haven't joined the group yet I'll make a proposition for you. You open the link to the group in another tab, join it, and then you can come right back here and continue reading this blog post. I'll just go ahead and wait for you to do that...
...Okay, so at this point you have joined the group, because you shouldn't be this far down on the blog if you haven't joined yet. If you claim that you are this far down without joining the group than, you are lying in an attempt to screw with me, because I refuse to believe that you would do such a thing. At least I can take comfort in the fact that even if that did happen and you were still reading this without joining the group, you are going to join it after you finish reading this because none of my followers are the kind of people that would read this entire thing about how they should join a group that benefits the entire site, and then not join it. I have enough confidence in you that I'm going to go ahead and end this post knowing that no matter who you are, by the time you finish reading this you will have joined the group, or will join within the next few seconds. Thank you for you support, and thank you for following me so that I could make this happen. Good day to you all, ~ Gearsy
You're pretty clumsy at this, aren't you?
The "assume the reader is going to obey you" strategy is best used as an implicature, subtly so that, if it works, it doesn't even get considered as something to question - the only way it can work, since the statement itself falls easily into logical fallacy territory. The emotional manipulation should similarly be a lot more subtle - only the vain fall for obvious loaded praise. This would work much better if it wasn't as heavy-handed.
2565352 Yeah, I was just trying to be funny. I'm sure you tactic would have worked better, but yeah. I was just putting out a kinda funny blog post in the hopes people would join the group. Which a few did because of this.