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POSTED BY deliriumtremens
Look at these two situations:
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It sounds like you're talking about a duopolist's dilemma, illustrated in Economics in the "game-tree". Now that I think about it, though, it probably could be applied. If you were to look at traffic as the price you sell your TGP as, which is possible. For instance, Boneprone or The Hun would be able to put a price on his traffic, and anyone who plans to enter the market on that site's level would have to emulate it to an extent (i.e. the archives you mentioned) in order to maintain the numbers to validate him even listing your site. This of course, oversaturates the market with the same old thing and reduces 'loyalty', as theFly put it.
On the other hand, I really don't think there's a such thing as "offering too much free porn"--from what I've researched, that sounds to me like a paysite owner's lazy excuse for not being able to keep up with the trends in the industry. I can see where they would come from, though, because the ones that have been around are prolly spoiled from the oft-mentioned 'late-nineties' of porn. Anyway, to sum up, trading is'nt bad, and you don't have to drastically change your setup just to keep up with competition, it's just kind of like gambling.
If I worked at Kinko's, which is primarily a copy shop, and I sent a customer to Office Max for Office Supplies Kinko's might not carry, I'm in essence "trading traffic" with Office Max. Now, this customer could be drawn into the allure of the copy center inside of Office Max (i think it's called Copy Max), they come to find that there are more office supplies and also the option to get printed there. However, as time goes by they realize that because Office Max is a supply store, and doesn't specialize in copies, the work is shabby, always late, and the people are unknowledgable, so said customer goes back to kinko's(kinda like a loyal bookmarker, huh?)
I'm not exactly sure where i was going to go with this, but it made me think about economics, it seems it is applicable, even if traffic is unlike anything economics deals with. Hope I helped someone somewhere.
I need to sleep.