Ooooh I just have to get my 2 cents in
This one's for Snake:
I agree with your post but up to a point because:
1) I know there are a lot of cheaters comming from countries like Russia, Romenia etc... BUT(And there always is a but) I do not believe in banning those countries from freehosting, sponsorprograms etc... The reason for this is simple when the time comes that the honest webmasters(and there are honest people from Russia and the other countries) have to pay the price because of the cheaters that's just not right. IMHO we need to fight the cheaters but only the cheaters. I don't care what it takes, I also don't care of the costs it is wrong to deny a honest webmaster his profession of choice and banning those countries are crippling them.
2) I also understand the sponsor's side of it and can understand why those countries are not accepted, however that does not make it right in my opinion.
In general I think we all would be served better if we put those efforts we put in banning those countries into developing systems that are not so easy to cheat, and I also say we should come down on cheaters a lot harder. Set examples of what happens when you do cheat. Just not paying them isn't good enough what we need are shared cheater lists to make sure those cheaters can not join anywhere else and rip another sponsor off.
As for dialers I entirely disagree with you for the following reasons:
1) It is not the job of the webmaster to keep kids of the sites, it's the job of the parents. And for your example 20 minutes does not equal 400 bucks
, but a high phonebill might be exactly what those parents need to get a little more motivated to monitor those kids better, as it is THEIR job.
As for the freestuff I don't even think that's the problem, it's marketing skills that count.
When I hear webmasters stating I submit to this TGP and and that one and total 100k of hits to the gallery a day and make 2 signups and then look at my pages and conclude that I can submit to those same TGP's, get the same amount of hits and rake in $ 200 in sign ups + $ 20 bucks in exit traffic + $ 20 in clickthroughs and I won't even mention the minutes to my dialer I think it's safe to say they are not using the right marketing techniques for their traffic. And that IMHO is the problem nothing else.
My 2 cents a minute
Wolfshade
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