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Originally posted by woodsix
It is funny that you mention what newbies are doing. That is one point I want to make. While the professionals are delivering meaningful value to the customer, the newbies can cause a lot of harm for everyone (so can the professionals, but if they have been around awhile, it is a lot less likely).
All you need is a newbie to get the idea that spamming the whole universe is a great idea to compensate for their lack of experience to give everyone a black eye. Now no one can make any kind of business proposal without hearing SPAM a hundred times.
All you need is a newbie to get the idea that throwing up 100 popus on a web page is a good idea. Pop-up blockers didn't even exist 4 years ago.
All you need is a newbie to get the idea that being a script kiddie can get them some easy bucks from unsuspecting visitors. Now everyone has some kind of virus scanner, port blocker, or personal firewall.
All you need is a newbie to get the idea that bait-and-switch is a good idea for getting some easy money. Now no one trusts any website, except for the major ones. There was a time when a startup website got the benefit of the doubt, now you are guilty until you can prove otherwise.
Professionals do not operate this way. They know this type of behavior is self-defeating and unproductive.
Understand, the web is not an island or a vacuum. It is an interconnected worldwide network of computers. You can spread bad just as easily as good almost instantaneously, with or without experience.
My advice, it makes no sense to encourage the inexperienced and naive to offer a porn website with promises of easy money. All it does is make it harder on everyone.
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This is hilarious.
WHO do you think it was that started spamming porn?
WHO do you think it was that started popups?
WHO do you think it was that used auto-bookmarkers and auto-downloaders?
WHO do you think it was that brought the Visa crackdown with their bullshit bait-and-switch tactics of pre-checked cross-sales, fake trials, triple billing on signup etc?
It's the "professionals" whose asses you're trying to lick right now and who have been scrambling for the past 6 months to get their shit straight before they go out of business.
It ain't the newbies that have been - and still are - using the tactics described above to pay out $40+ per signup on a $2 join... it's the people you're praising as "professionals".