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KatValeska
Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 1830 Location: Colorado
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Posted: 03/04/05 2:04 pm ::: Pilight |
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You posted a story on the other board about recruiting. Someone asked if you would copy and paste it - I'll repeat that request. Can't stand going through registration processes for papers I may never read again.
And that link w/ the fake registrations - I've tried using it several times and have never had success. Just wasted time.
I really wish we'd all copy and paste stories that require the stupid registration. I am signed up on a few so I'll vow to do the same.
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pilight
Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 66912 Location: Where the action is
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sambista
Joined: 25 Sep 2004 Posts: 16951 Location: way station of life
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Posted: 03/04/05 6:19 pm ::: |
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no. 2 is the reason we should all tolerate and encourage following the actual link to the page. if we don't give them a reason to up the coverage of the game - and send a message to advertisers - no one will. it's fairly painless to make a list of the websites that commonly produce the stories we read, then sit down during some halftimes and, little by little, set up your logons. you'll feel good about it when you're done because you'll have contributed to the cause.
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bballjunkee212
Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 1906
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Posted: 03/04/05 6:26 pm ::: |
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Agreed. I use the same name and password for every one of these things. I use an address that sends the spam and junk mail to a garage in Buffalo.
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no. 2 is the reason we should all tolerate and encourage following the actual link to the page. if we don't give them a reason to up the coverage of the game - and send a message to advertisers - no one will. it's fairly painless to make a list of the websites that commonly produce the stories we read, then sit down during some halftimes and, little by little, set up your logons. you'll feel good about it when you're done because you'll have contributed to the cause. |
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Slovydal
Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 12205 Location: Indianapolis, IN
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Posted: 03/04/05 6:32 pm ::: |
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Somebody asked pilight the same question about a year ago.
Until he mentioned it, I hadn't thought about the fact that they count how many hits the stories get.
I'll have to check out "bugmenot"
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rebkell Site Admin
Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 4898 Location: East Tennessee
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Posted: 03/05/05 3:12 am ::: |
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Slovydal wrote: |
Somebody asked pilight the same question about a year ago.
Until he mentioned it, I hadn't thought about the fact that they count how many hits the stories get.
I'll have to check out "bugmenot" |
I started back when we were on the world crossing board signing up for a lot of online papers, with a common username and passord, but I drifted away from doing it, and didn't finish up, so the question is, if I started signing up on these papers with a common name and password, and have a common name and password for all these online papers. Would it benefit the members of this board, if I made the username/email password known to the members of this board or would it actually undermine the very thing you talked about, about the number of hits the stories get. Would me using the bugmenot email and another person doing the same, count as one hit or two?
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Slovydal
Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 12205 Location: Indianapolis, IN
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Posted: 03/05/05 10:50 am ::: |
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I see your point. I think because the hits are coming from different places they'll add up even though it's the same name and password
Sort of how I can vote in a poll at home and at work.
Am I making any sense - let me get my coffee...
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sambista
Joined: 25 Sep 2004 Posts: 16951 Location: way station of life
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Posted: 03/05/05 12:20 pm ::: |
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i think it really depends on how the numbers are gathered by those sites in the first place, then crunched by the bean counters. reb can tell you that there are tons of ways the hits can be measured - by ip address, as slovy suggested, by username, by geographical region, by country, by time and date stamp, by operating system, by browser (and version) . . . it goes on and on. sometimes even names can be divined, even when there's no logon involved (that was kinda scary when i first saw it). generally, i'd say different usernames are best, but using a generic logon offered by reb or someone else is better than no effort at all to register the hits.
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