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« Reply #30 on: December 30, 2005, 11:30:00 PM »
Here's a question. What is it about these particular appeals for your heart and mind that offends you so much?

Every post, every phrase and paragraph, in this entire forum is just that; an appeal to win you over to some point of view. Some of the better, more artfully done appeals are to make us think and laugh and not take ourselves so damned seriously all the time.

And ya'll just have NO idea how much I looked forward to getting a peek at some of that when my only access was a public terminal in Oakland.  ::kiss::

The words are, by design, just the same words that occure throughout the pages; they're as close as the programers and math geeks can come to just what you were reading about.

So what's so different about this now? You can click or not on whatever you like and think what you want to think about it. Making money is not an evil thing to do. Taking it by force or fraud is. But not making it.

I just wonder how good this AI can get. Wonder what's in Have You Read It and if it'll get closer to the mark over time?

Just play with it, dude! Have fun, poke it, bash it, insult it, praise it... see what it does. I'm not done playing with this yet. I won't dig in and decide aforehand whether or not it will work out. But I'm pretty determined to make this work to advantage.

No dirty tricks, either. It's the principle of the thing. This is a free market test. I think totalitarian products and services can't swim these waters. I'm willing to mess around just a little further and see if that pans out even just a little further.

Wanna bet again' it?

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« Reply #31 on: December 31, 2005, 12:15:00 AM »
Oh, check it out! First ad list off of Have You Read It.

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« Reply #32 on: December 31, 2005, 01:21:00 AM »
Welp, I guess we know the links expire pdq. That was an ad link that seemed to key on the term 'whistle blower'.

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« Reply #33 on: December 31, 2005, 06:17:00 AM »
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On 2005-12-30 20:30:00, Antigen wrote:

"So what's so different about this now? You can click or not on whatever you like and think what you want to think about it. Making money is not an evil thing to do. Taking it by force or fraud is. But not making it.

I think totalitarian products and services can't swim these waters."


Is propaganda fraud? Is repetition brainwashing? Is exposure to a viral agent one way people get the flu, irrespective of their p.o.v. on germ theory?

Are those who frequent fornits immune to totalitarianism, propaganda, brainwashing, or even mere suggestibility?
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« Reply #34 on: December 31, 2005, 10:25:00 AM »
I also find it amusing that they'll have an increase in "Referring Pages" coming from here.  ::cheers::

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« Reply #35 on: December 31, 2005, 10:27:00 AM »
Look, you're doing it right now! You're trying to convince all readers of your point of view. And you're using repetition to do it. That's cool with me, but is it any different from paid advertising except in the detail that you don't have to pay to do it?

Is anybody completely immune to this kind of influence? I doubt it. Is anybody completely helpless to resist it? I don't buy that either.

But check this out. How come the troubled parent industry websites don't use Google ads? They buy them, alright. So they know about how it works. And they could, theoretically, turn a buck from all those myriad websites they've got out there. So why not do it?

I have a theory. I think it's because they can't. They can't allow a random sampling of whatever's out there into their marketing material. What they're selling is a scam. The pitch requires a high pressure tactic, including as much control as possible over what the mark is thinking about.

We don't have that problem. Now...



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« Reply #36 on: January 04, 2006, 03:08:00 AM »
Who'd a thunk it: Ginger, a propaganda apologist!

Now Ginger, if my words were mere repetition I wouldn't give you such wholesome and original questions to mull over as I did in that last anonymous post.

If you don't think there is a big difference between conversation and propaganda, which are you engaged in?
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« Reply #37 on: January 04, 2006, 02:47:00 PM »
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If you don't think there is a big difference between conversation and propaganda, which are you engaged in?


Describe the difference, please.

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« Reply #38 on: January 04, 2006, 03:26:00 PM »
In case nobody's noticed the VAST MAJORITY of those ads are already gone.  Seems WWASPS etc. feel the need to control any and all info.  Ginger was right.
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