Is this cheating?

[PhounTho]

I don't know the jargon term for this, but I've seen a ton of TGP's do this:

They'll have a link that says for example "Girl takes it in the ass by two studs: 3 clips". Then when you click on it you just get taken to another TGP, no clips, no ass reaming, nada.

Further, and this is perhaps more prevalent in the TGP's that are not text link, but thumb-based. My discovery was that sometimes you had to click on any given thumb 3-4 times in order to finally get to the gallery page "described" by the thumb.

Doesn't this seem like cheating?

My reasons:

If I'm surfing, say a thumb-based TGP, and I see a hot chick in the thumb, I WANT that movie, right? If I click on that thumb and get taken to another TGP with a whole other list of movies, this might frustrate me to either 1) close that window and try again to click on the original thumb or 2) give up on the original TGP and surf elsewhere. Either way, the click that is sent to that other TGP is a bullshit click, IMO.

I'm sure there are "clean" TGP's out there, but there seem to be more that are using this tactic than not.

Is this the way traffic trading scripts work? The script says, if scripts could talk, "Oh hey, this other TGP has sent me a bunch of hits, I better force some hits back to him so my shit balances out, so I'll induce the surfer to click on this gallery thumb and redirect him to the TGP that I owe hits for, even though the surfer doesn't want to go there."

Does it sound like I need to stop surfing and get to work?

In all seriousness, some opinions and insight would be nice here.

Thanks in advance.

[the Shemp]

are you planning a career as a webmaster?

[mardigras]

Look up "skim".

[zzgundamnzz]

Dunno... if you really wanna see the galleries that bad copy the url and stick a 100 in the place of the 50 ;)

[psyko514]

it's not cheating. it's one method that TGPs use to trade traffic.

[Manowar]

Originally posted by the Shemp
are you planning a career as a webmaster?

[PhounTho]

Ummm thanks, I think.

I'll reply one at a time:

The Shemp: Not planning--already there. Just b/c I don't know jack shit about TGPs doesn't mean I don't know other things...

Mardigras: Thanks. I'll look up "skim" on a different board as this one's search feature is disabled, but sound advice nonetheless.

zzgundamnzz: Have no idea what you're talking about. On these redirect thingys I don't see 50's or 100's. Must be a joke I'm not getting.

psyko514: OK, you're right, this isn't the classic form of cheating that one would get reported for on this board. What I was getting at here was does anyone think that this form of traffic trading doesn't make great sense?

Think of it this way. Let's say we're not talking about TPG's, we're talking about televsion sets. What do you think would happen to advertising revenue for the stations if every other time you changed the channel you never knew what channel was going to come up? Perhaps one may argue that ad revenue would increase in this scenario. I'd be interested in hearing that argument.

The Hun doesn't seem to engage is this skimming/trading. Which strategy is better? To skim or not to skim? Perhaps that would be a more fun debate for a BBS such as this one.

[Adultnet]

Originally posted by PhounTho
Ummm thanks, I think.

I'll reply one at a time:

The Shemp: Not planning--already there. Just b/c I don't know jack shit about TGPs doesn't mean I don't know other things...

Mardigras: Thanks. I'll look up "skim" on a different board as this one's search feature is disabled, but sound advice nonetheless.

zzgundamnzz: Have no idea what you're talking about. On these redirect thingys I don't see 50's or 100's. Must be a joke I'm not getting.

psyko514: OK, you're right, this isn't the classic form of cheating that one would get reported for on this board. What I was getting at here was does anyone think that this form of traffic trading doesn't make great sense?

Think of it this way. Let's say we're not talking about TPG's, we're talking about televsion sets. What do you think would happen to advertising revenue for the stations if every other time you changed the channel you never knew what channel was going to come up? Perhaps one may argue that ad revenue would increase in this scenario. I'd be interested in hearing that argument.

The Hun doesn't seem to engage is this skimming/trading. Which strategy is better? To skim or not to skim? Perhaps that would be a more fun debate for a BBS such as this one.

Get to work

[the_wizz]

Originally posted by PhounTho

psyko514: OK, you're right, this isn't the classic form of cheating that one would get reported for on this board. What I was getting at here was does anyone think that this form of traffic trading doesn't make great sense?

Think of it this way. Let's say we're not talking about TPG's, we're talking about televsion sets. What do you think would happen to advertising revenue for the stations if every other time you changed the channel you never knew what channel was going to come up? Perhaps one may argue that ad revenue would increase in this scenario. I'd be interested in hearing that argument.

The Hun doesn't seem to engage is this skimming/trading. Which strategy is better? To skim or not to skim? Perhaps that would be a more fun debate for a BBS such as this one.

Right. Because the Hun has enough traffic that he doesn't need to trade.

Smaller sites use this as a method of increasing traffic and no, its not cheating. The sites that cheat send 100% of the outclicks to other tgps and not to actual galleries. Good TGPs send 60%+ to the galleries and the other to trades.

To use your TV example, think of it like a commercial.

You sit down expecting to view your fav show, knowing full well that if its an hour long, you'll have 5 commercial breaks.

[PhounTho]

Thanks wizz, nice post, and thanks for playing with me on my little analogy game.

Back to work....

[bamboo bernie]

Basicly its blind traffic....

[Shags]

Good question