|
An advertiser's possible perspective:
----------------
Let's say I advertise on TMS.
I pay money for a banner, and examine the statistics links that are on offer about how many unique visitors there are to the TMS website. My confidence grows, knowing that large numbers of people will see my banner - until I stumble across this 'one-click voting' thread...
It is here I find out those statistics don't mean squat -- my banner isn't even being seen by any of those script-kiddies... and that leaves a rather bad aftertaste.
-----------------
I don't want to raise advertising in general as a major derailment of the topic, however anyone who pays for advertising may understandably think the statistics of 'unique visitors to the site' are inflated with people who vote-and-close without even viewing the page.
Hopefully most of those same advertisers realise that TMS is going to have some statistical skew since they *are* a ranking site. Anyway, just figured the vote-and-close mentality should bear in mind the TMS income stream.
*goes back to lurking*
|