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Originally posted by McSpike:
Less bandwidth used and more sales. I can't argue with that.
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Well, I don't claim to be a TGP2 expert even a little bit, but I just think you guys are lookin' at it from the wrong end... "less bandwidth and more sales" is from a webmaster's view, not a surfer's... and I know it's not our job to "like" the surfer, but they
are the reason we're here at all, so if you look at it from a freeloader's perspective, given a choice between a site (gallery) with 20-25 free pics, and a site (gallery) with 7 or 8, Murphy's Law is always going to tell me that the freeloader is gonna take the one with more free pics.
I recognize that you TGP2 guys have some very good arguments as to why it will work, but I think ultimately, it comes down to how the human mind works, and the mind of a freeloading surfer is always going to choose the one he can get the most from for the least amount of money.
Additionally, I think that if there was some way to get
every webmaster out there to convert to TGP2, then it would work fantastically! Because the surfers wouldn't really have any other option at that point. But.... (and it's a big one...) that will never happen. Because of my "Climbing out from under the pile" theory:
Let's suppose that all webmasters were TGP2 tomorrow. TGP1 was gone. Well... somewhere, someone is still going to be getting crap traffic to his gallerys.
Someone has to be at the bottom of the food chain. And eventually, that guy (or several guys) is going to either give up and go back to clerking at 7 Eleven, or he's gonna do something to bring himself more traffic. And what might that be?
More free pictures. And the cycle starts all over again.