Hi Christopher, On Nov 02, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> It causes people to make mistakes and change their home page, then > call support asking what happened. It causes them to spend money on > support visits to have it fixed. OK, I'll bite. :) I get that you (and some others on the list) don't like sites with little or no original content having "bookmark this page" or "make this your homepage" links, but it is entirely the choice of visitors to these sites to decide if THEY want to act. There's nothing nefarious in giving people such options and there are tons of sites with these features. In fact Google shows about 2 million pages with the "bookmark the" copy and another 1.6 million with the "homepage this" copy. If someone finds value in the page (because it has links they might look for in the future) and they want to bookmark it, more power to them. If not, no harm, no foul. Now if the site was FORCING the user to somehow make these changes I would share the concern. Personally I never use this type of link, but people do. Personally I never bookmark parked pages, but people do. Some people collect coupons, I don't. Some people enter contests, I don't. Some people use Windows PCs, I don't. :) I'm not sure I'm ready to judge the behaviour of the "average user" by ANY of our behaviours as the fact we are participating in this conversation means I can guarantee you we are NOT average Internet users. > Does it bother ANYONE at Tucows that a number of your resellers, and > MY WIFE took one look at this page and thought it looks like a > scammers page? It would bother me a LOT if it WAS a scam, but it unequivocally is not. It bothers me a LITTLE that you and your wife thought it was a scam page in that it may mean that the value to you is diminished and the odds of you trusting the links and clicking through is therefore lower. > Are you even interested enough to ask what our concerns are and > possibly address then, or should I just ask the NY attorny general > to open a false advertising investigation? If you are saying that our parked pages ARE scams, I would strongly disagree. Cheers, Ken Schafer ======================================== Vice President, Product Management & Marketing Tucows http://services.tucows.com http://about.tucows.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================== _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
