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Tommy I was cool with your post and took no offense -- until the last line, my friend. Shows you didn't read the whole thread before you posted.
If you had, then you would know it has nothing whatsoever to do with "if one can choose a banner or not" -- it is about BUSINESS and figuring out the best converting sponsors and/or banners using the BUSINESS ANALYSIS TOOLS at hand to maximize revenue!!
Regarding the short term traffic comment a) if it is only short term traffic is that a legitimate reason it shouldn't be analyzed for best ROI (return on investment)? b) Plus as Carrie said, with search engines, it can be long-term traffic, not just short-term.
Last question, Tommy: I assume you are talking about general submissions only? You have a friends/partners exception thing for people who have built trust with you or don't you?
Again I understand what TGP owners and reivewers are all saying about general submitters it is too much a risk. I better understand that level of cheating must be tremdendous. Still, that said, it is very sad that new webmasters or webmasters people don't know have to ply stone-aged tools in the age of video cell phones all because 50 s**theads in Romania screw things up.
Carrie regards: "there's no reasoning with a script". Yeah you know I am PRO scripts ... the only script that can't be reasoned with is a badly written one. And it seems to catch cheaters, a lot of these scripts have not had the flexibility put into to them to catch cheaters AND allow honest webmasters through.
That's the "little" problem I'm having, you see -- Overkill. And that's what I'm pissed at. I know TGP owners are sick of cheaters and I don't blame them one bit!! On that, I'm totally with you and I totally see your point! It is the "can't tell the innnocent from the guilty so machine-gun them all" attitude that sucks. The "kill everyone and let God sort them out" mentality that stinks.
So pardon me for thinking there must be a better and greatly fairer way of doing things that helps the general webmaster and the TGP owner/reviewer both, but I think there must be a better way then the current "standard" that exists. That's all I'm saying.
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