It seems to me that these bogus registration is not affecting the papers in a way that motivates them to get rid of manditory registration.
It is my understanding that the papers use these stats to show to potential advertisers. Their sales drones can say "Our ads are a great value because they give you access to 100,000 people, 25% of which are rich doctors!"
What if instead of random data, we organized to give bad data. I bet many papers would start to rethink their policies when they see that 15 to 20 percent of their readers are unemployed 40 year olds making 0-5k a year.
See what happens when they have to show that stat to their advertisers.
What activity outdoors can be more geeky than sailing? Nothing is better than screaming over the waves while you try to optimize your heading based on vectors, aerodynamics, and hydrodynamics.
They employ a lot of tricks 'making sure your site gets linked a lot' that I am sure most of us would classify as dishonest gaming of the system.
Most of the 'search optimizers' I have seen fall mostly into this category. They make money off of reducing the search experience for the end user for their own gain. If you prefer not to use the term 'sleeze bags' might I suggest 'selfish parasites'?
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It seems to me that these bogus registration is not affecting the papers in a way that motivates them to get rid of manditory registration.
It is my understanding that the papers use these stats to show to potential advertisers. Their sales drones can say "Our ads are a great value because they give you access to 100,000 people, 25% of which are rich doctors!"
What if instead of random data, we organized to give bad data. I bet many papers would start to rethink their policies when they see that 15 to 20 percent of their readers are unemployed 40 year olds making 0-5k a year.
See what happens when they have to show that stat to their advertisers.
What activity outdoors can be more geeky than sailing? Nothing is better than screaming over the waves while you try to optimize your heading based on vectors, aerodynamics, and hydrodynamics.
They employ a lot of tricks 'making sure your site gets linked a lot' that I am sure most of us would classify as dishonest gaming of the system.
Most of the 'search optimizers' I have seen fall mostly into this category. They make money off of reducing the search experience for the end user for their own gain. If you prefer not to use the term 'sleeze bags' might I suggest 'selfish parasites'?