I'll go one further on the 'bookmark this page' thing. The web pages and even blogs that I read do not generally have a link for this. I have read a few that do, but I have noted that these have a tendancy to drop off the list relatively quickly. These links do piss me off because they are a sign that the deveoper/author does not respect the intelligence of the reader. However, the reason the pages vanish from my reading list is that the I end up with no respect for the intelligence of designer/author. The content tends to either be bad, or the page gets few interesting updates.
In my opinion, keeping this link associates the tucows and its customers (resellers) with the same lack of intelligence and lack of respect for visitors. -- Tim. On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Paul Gordon wrote: > > On Nov 2, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Ken Schafer wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Absolutely, but they make the pages look far more tacky than they > need to be, and in doing so gives ammo to the "parking pages are bad" > sector. They're of very little use. The appearance of the parking > pages looks much better without them. They smack of desperation and > should have died out with geocities pages. > > The higher quality parking pages (ones that are easily mistaken for > content-filled) do NOT have them. > > One other thing - the "related links" should be optional on a per- > domain basis, because if you have a domain name > "mostdeliciousapples.com" you can guess what product will stat > appearing, turning an innocent domain into a TM lawyers wet dream. > > > _______________________________________________ > domains-gen mailing list > [email protected] > http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Woodcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] BareMetal.com http://baremetal.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
