Talk:Premium rate telephone number

Paid SMS services
It seems the 00s replacement was super-expensive services that would send you lots of SMS "news/update" messages in exchange for a monthly subscription or other payment. I don't know if these have died a death now? Annquin (talk) 10:46, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Added them. Faunas (talk) 11:36, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Mission?
How is this missional? Apart from "they're a ripoff" I see nothing, unless somehow we've become a consumer advice wiki. Bicycle wheel  11:20, 12 July 2016 (UTC)


 * It's exactly being a ripoff. Faunas (talk) 11:36, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I think it's totally missional. As the article mentions, from the psychic Miss Cleo to the 809 scam to SMS spoofing and the revelations of foul play... And this article is also ripe for adding lots more on phone psychics and such. Even John Hogue gives phone consultations for chrissakes! Reverend Black Percy (talk) 12:00, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I would agree that the article needs more "original research", though. Stuff like psychic phone lines and ordering woo items per phone and such. Reverend Black Percy (talk) 12:01, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * "Ordering woo items per phone" would be more like infomercials, which I want to do but I'm lazy. Faunas (talk) 15:25, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * "missiony people use it to sell stuff" doesn't really do it for me. If not this, they'd use something else. Bicycle  wheel Toxic mowse.gif 17:32, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * If the article mostly talks about scam artists and woo peddlers, it'd be on-mission.--The (((Kigel))) (talk) (mail) 17:49, 13 July 2016 (UTC) 17:49, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * And it doesn't. It goes on about porn and quiz show and stuff. the only missiony bit is the Miss Cleo scam, and let's be honest, that's not a mark against premium phone lines themselves. I see nothing missional in this article at all. To AfD it goes. Bicycle  wheel Toxic mowse.gif 17:55, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Even in porn and quiz shows there is something missional. For one, what finally drove people away from these lines was the fact that there was porn (and this wiki has articles on the irracionality of people around porn, and sex in general). The quiz shows were themselves mostly scams, and somewhat akin to gambling, which also has its own brand of woo.Faunas (talk) 19:58, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * There is woo about gambling, which is sorta like sports quizzes, therefore let's have an article on phone lines that run sports quizzes. Got it. Bicycle  wheel Toxic mowse.gif 18:23, 16 July 2016 (UTC)