On IRC today in the Addon Developer room, we began discussing the GM item Martin Thunder. Someone had not seen it linked before and was wondering how it happened. I told them that recently GMs have been appearing with it and that, by Monday (right before server restart), it was linkable on most servers.

Now, as a preface, I have an "Addon Development" character as I like to call it from which I do most of my development. This character is in an EXTREMELY large guild (maximum capacity reached on the guild panel) because I often need alot of people to test things.

Now, back to the story.

Because I was already on my Addon Dev character, I decided to test what I had said by linking the Martin Thunder. Sure enough, it worked. I decided to have some fun at the expense of the newer players in that character's guild. I told them I had just found the item off of a rat in Stormwind.

I had no idea what I had done.

First, one of the people I had decided to have fun with asked what it was in trade chat.

Then another.

Then someone from Trade began linking it in yells.

Within an hour, every other chat message posted in Trade contained the item link.

I had started the epidemic -- again