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Old 03-14-2008 | 12:05 PM
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Pydpiper
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Default RE: new web site

ORIGINAL: ohioarcher300

no sure what the money involved comment means
OK, one last comment, to answer a question I brought up, then I will leave this alone.

Websites are paid for their advertisements based on how many "hits" that particular sight gets in an average day, week, month, whatever. Just like any other form of advertisements.
A website promotes it's self in hopes of creating traffic, the more traffic that crosses a site the more money the advertising space is worth.
Say a website gets 50 people a day, the advertising costs are reflected on that amount of people seeing the add. If that same website gets 50,000 "hits" a day their advertising space is worth far more.
Look at it like this, you have a business that you want to promote, you decide on advertising on a billboard. There are two available, one has 200 cars drive by in a day, the other has 10,000 cars drive by in a day.. Which one is worth more money? HNI has spent time and money to have people "drive by" their billboard more often than the other one. Give respect where respect is due. Look at the top of this page, the advertisements you see are based on the work of this website, and this website alone, deterring traffic is an excellent business move, and involves a bit of strategy, stepping in and taking it away with no foundation is just uncool.
Again, this is not about the new site, it is about how you chose to go about promoting it.

Most websites are designed to create traffic, once traffic is established then advertising space becomes valuable, this site gets traffic because it contains good people and good information, and because of that the space purchased by advertisers becomes an issue of value, and Value = income. Hence, this is why I mentioned the monetary aspect of why it is not cool to come to an established site to promote another with the sole intention of deterring the "traffic".
This isn't a personal issue for me, I could give a flying f*** what you do with your time, but in my experience here I have seen trolls/spammers and anti's bounced pretty quick, they were bounced by the administrators to make this a better place for us, while still maintaining a decent site for us to depend on, it has come at no cost to it's members and should be shown respect for that reason alone.
Your lack of support for this aspect of our sport rubbed me the wrong way.
Does that clarify what the "money involved comment" means?
If not, I have more.
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