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Originally posted by michel
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The folks that know what they are doing, well, they know what they are doing. The larger established sites don't pull that sort of thing. It's just something I've noticed with a lot of the newer thumb sites, particularly the 'fake' thumb TGPs. The larger programs put hosted galleries and such out there as promotional tools for partners to use for fairly simple sales, but some people seem to abuse that content just to pump up their traffic trade stats. If a site were using a major sponsor's banner to sent clicks to a site that didn't belong to that sponsor, it would be a big problem, but I guess some folks think it's perfectly ok to use that sponsor's content to send the click to someone else instead. Sure, some skim might be acceptable, but if there is slim to no chance a sponsor will see any traffic from a thumb they provided as a sales tool, somehow that seems a little odd. But mostly, I just wanted to see what other folks thought about it.
Oh, and I also wanted to mention that it's not like a big SpookyCash issue, it really is just something I've noticed a lot lately. I click on something cool I want to see, and lately odds are good that I won't get to see it.