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Look, I know you are trying to run a high-brow establishment here. I get that, I really do. Intellectual discussion and all sorts of other hoity-toity behavior runs rampant through the esteemed halls of Poly... but there is a sickness here that pervades our supposed open and free community.
I'm talking about the stereotyping and bigotry shown to online marketers and by proxy their proxies. If one so happens to find your post enthralling and worth giving a thumbs-up, what's really so awful about that?
This isn't a moral plea though, heaven forbid! I can stand by and watch a holocaust against posters simply because they're speak a different language than we do... but what I can't stand for are the socialist, protectionist, and mercantilistic underpinnings to that intolerance!
See... nearly 80% of all online economic activity starts at a search engine. Why is that significant? Well because to get your site ranking high in a search engine you need other sites on the internet linking to you. Lots of them. The more the better. Google has spoken, and so it must be.
While on the surface this may seem like a perfectly acceptable way to model what is important online, it fails miserably in practice. Why is that you ask? Well I'm glad you asked! The answer is of course that the things that are most linked... such as lolz catz and masturbatory aids, rarely have any economic impact. People love free ****. They link to free **** for free. Now, I have nothing against free... freedom is what I'm arguing for here in fact... but if everything that shows up in search engines happens to be free... we cut our online economy down to 1/5th of what it should be! It's even worse than this in fact, as most of the 20% that doesn't start on a search engine happens through... you guessed it... following links. (Direct traffic does happen, but through experience it's entirely comprised of website owners and their mom's checking out how the new page looks.)
Now, I'm not the only one who's realized this. There are a small subset of the population working day and night to ensure that this apocalyptic future never happens. I am talking about the spammers, bots, and bot creators who are constantly waging war on inefficient internet discourse. Did some Prince just get hitched? Well what is the use of lamenting about how it's on TV if we don't allow those people with economic interests in such discussion promote their related goods and services? How are you going to find a princess bridal veil for only $47.98 plus shipping if we ban the very mode of transport that can take us to such wonderful offers?
If you want more details on relevent studies >> CLICK HERE <<
We are in a recession for crying out loud! Yet we still are doing our damnedest to kill the very cure we so very dearly need. And why? So that instead of reading about how awesome this post was, we can sit there hitting refresh every 10 minutes wondering if maybe someone has posted a new and insightful tidbit about how they'd keep MrFun tied up so as to ram him with a large, long, and powerful cylindric object...
Enough is enough. FREE THE BOTS!
I'm talking about the stereotyping and bigotry shown to online marketers and by proxy their proxies. If one so happens to find your post enthralling and worth giving a thumbs-up, what's really so awful about that?
This isn't a moral plea though, heaven forbid! I can stand by and watch a holocaust against posters simply because they're speak a different language than we do... but what I can't stand for are the socialist, protectionist, and mercantilistic underpinnings to that intolerance!
See... nearly 80% of all online economic activity starts at a search engine. Why is that significant? Well because to get your site ranking high in a search engine you need other sites on the internet linking to you. Lots of them. The more the better. Google has spoken, and so it must be.
While on the surface this may seem like a perfectly acceptable way to model what is important online, it fails miserably in practice. Why is that you ask? Well I'm glad you asked! The answer is of course that the things that are most linked... such as lolz catz and masturbatory aids, rarely have any economic impact. People love free ****. They link to free **** for free. Now, I have nothing against free... freedom is what I'm arguing for here in fact... but if everything that shows up in search engines happens to be free... we cut our online economy down to 1/5th of what it should be! It's even worse than this in fact, as most of the 20% that doesn't start on a search engine happens through... you guessed it... following links. (Direct traffic does happen, but through experience it's entirely comprised of website owners and their mom's checking out how the new page looks.)
Now, I'm not the only one who's realized this. There are a small subset of the population working day and night to ensure that this apocalyptic future never happens. I am talking about the spammers, bots, and bot creators who are constantly waging war on inefficient internet discourse. Did some Prince just get hitched? Well what is the use of lamenting about how it's on TV if we don't allow those people with economic interests in such discussion promote their related goods and services? How are you going to find a princess bridal veil for only $47.98 plus shipping if we ban the very mode of transport that can take us to such wonderful offers?
If you want more details on relevent studies >> CLICK HERE <<
We are in a recession for crying out loud! Yet we still are doing our damnedest to kill the very cure we so very dearly need. And why? So that instead of reading about how awesome this post was, we can sit there hitting refresh every 10 minutes wondering if maybe someone has posted a new and insightful tidbit about how they'd keep MrFun tied up so as to ram him with a large, long, and powerful cylindric object...
Enough is enough. FREE THE BOTS!
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