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diksbcseanbcsa wrote:
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I found shlomi's post interesting. Methods to promote personal
web sites should be of interest to anyone that have one.</pre>
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You are free to argue with Matan on whether this message was on topic
to this list or not. I lean toward Matan's point on view, but I do not
feel strongly about it. What I do feel strongly about is posting links
to outside sources, particularly your own, with no indication of who
might be interested in the content of the link. This is a classic
"teaser" technique, and I fail to see what purpose it serves beside
driving people who would not, otherwise, click on the link to do so. To
me, that's dishonest.<br>
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If you found Shlomi's post interesting, that's good for the both of
you. It does not excuse the fact that I, who did not, had to click the
link to find out what it was about.<br>
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<pre wrap=""> I don't
think that Shlomi's motivation in that post was to create traffic to
the site.
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No. Shlomi's motivation for both the post AND for not putting in an
abstract was to make more people view his opinions/story. Generating
traffic is EXACTLY what he was after. I own a blog too, as, I'm sure,
many other regular participants of the mailing list. Shlomi's is the
only one who gets a regular "hey, look what I just did" mails here. If
everyone who owned a blog treated Linux-IL as an RSS replacement, the
list would contain little else, and would probably die in less than a
month. Still, so long as it's only Shlomi, that had been acceptable so
long as he is not using dishonest techniques to generate his traffic.<br>
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<pre wrap=""> In fact, I wonder what revenue did Shlomi got while adSense was
active. On my rare visits to Shlomi's site, I don't recall ever
seeing some evidence to his adSense account. Perhaps I don't
understand what adSense is all about. I did took a brief look at
google's adSense page.
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People want to generate traffic for more than just financial
incentives. That does not mean you are free to monopolize community
resources in order to do so. If Shlomi gains enough money from AdSense
to retire early to a privately owned Carabean island, I'll be more than
happy for him. All I'm asking is that he plays fair, and not litter
where I (and others) eat.<br>
<br>
Shachar<br>
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lingnu.com">http://www.lingnu.com</a>
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