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- GABACALM, on 11/05/2009, -1/+23Don't get me wrong, these aren't sour grapes. I'm just going to file complaints against anyone and everyone involved, while throwing out words such as FELONY while having no understanding of the law whatsoever, and comparing this to being complicit in the death of a woman, because I. HAVE. RESPECT. AND. DIGNITY.
- ileftfark, on 11/05/2009, -3/+22Basically, chick enters contest to bring traffic to a radio station's web site. She loses out because of people using botnets and automation. Chick finds out that these methods are actually within the rules of the contest she entered. Chick is butthurt. Chick blogs about said butthurtness.
- teamtom, on 11/05/2009, -5/+20You didn't read the rules and you lost the contest.
- w00dyt, on 11/05/2009, -0/+14The story of a Seattle Radio station attempting to dive into social media, but instead gets called out for click fraud.
- smoothmedia, on 11/05/2009, -0/+11They should have just made the contest into "Who can amass the most prolific botnet?!"
- nolanrh, on 11/05/2009, -3/+13Click Fraud? Who is being defrauded? The company said get hits, automated methods are fine. No one is passing off automated hits as real hits.
- themagicfetus, on 11/05/2009, -0/+8now googling: contest + cash prize + "bots NOT prohibited"
this reminds me of the guy in the basement from Real Genius - cawfee, on 11/05/2009, -2/+8Angry complaint emails are so 1998.
- Scira, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6I don't feel like looking up click fraud laws, since everyone here says its not, I will assume its not.
But the station is a bag of dicks for making out the contest to be about actual promotional skills, and simply allowing cheaters since they are apparently too lazy to try and stop them. - OverDriven, on 11/05/2009, -1/+5I find it extremely hard to believe that anyone could be convicted of criminal conduct in this case. I mean...yes, it sucks, but this hardly seems worth the trouble. That said, I would really hate to get into an argument with this little hottie.
- Barackalypse, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4What illegal activities? These weren't clicks on paid ads for the purpose of falsely inflating ad revenue of the site, they were visits to a site the radio station controls.
- joeTaco, on 11/05/2009, -1/+5can't believe I wasted my time reading that. This chick is delusional.
- jeexbit, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4Here's a radio station in Seattle that actually gets it: http://www.kexp.org
- daEvan, on 11/05/2009, -2/+5It's laughable that the author thinks people will take her seriously. Read the rules first. It's not fraud if they say you can use bots. Nobody is defrauding anybody.
- sygyzy, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3It's not clickfraud, or fraud at all if the contest organizers don't have a problem with it. They said it's NOT prohibited. This chick seems to be complaining to anyone that will listen, but nobody really cares. The only people affected by this particular version of Click Fraud, if you can even call it that, are those who don't employ it. I don't like click fraud or bots but this is obviously a dumb contest run by a dumb radio contest. Maybe this will mark the end of them.
- RegalBegal, on 11/05/2009, -1/+4Someone explain to me why this is illegal in the case please. Thanks!
- Tarantulus, on 11/05/2009, -1/+4but they're supporting illegal activities, I think that was the point
- pagangod, on 11/05/2009, -1/+4Inaccurate. Seattle Radio station hosts contest that places no restrictions on users boosting page view count via automated methods.
- postalblowfish7, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3why would you enter such a lame contest?
- yocouchdigga, on 11/04/2009, -2/+4She's out for "justice" and attractive? I like the cut of this Kristin chick's jib...
- Tubal22, on 11/05/2009, -1/+3She should have thought outside the box.
- dotorg, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Start the whaaamulance.
Its only click fraud if someone is defrauded, and where the heck did she pull "felony" from?
This woman is the problem, not the radio station. - arkaycee, on 11/05/2009, -1/+2Is it a felony if she turned out not to be as hot as her picture?
- cyssero, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1You go girl!
- samsmartjr, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1John Candy is from Canada, thus proving your hypothesis as FAIL.
- ptoomey, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1It would have been more fun to fight fire with fire and direct a few million requests at the station's servers to see how they liked that. She would have won hands down and maybe choked the servers in the process. I would call that a win.
- Barackalypse, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1She's also insane, filing complaints with the Attorney General and thinking it is felony click fraud for people to use bots to drive traffic to a contest webpage that specifically allows bot traffic. With that kind of over-reaction, you're liable to take the girl out for a drink and have her call the cops claiming your tried to drug her.
- gkiltz, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Obviously stuck in the past.
Nature and business are very much alike.
Extinction occurs for an evolutionally valid reason.
Adapt or parish. they are just not adapting! - yocouchdigga, on 11/05/2009, -1/+1She can claim all she wants, I never leave evidence. I'm like a ninja when I'm inside you. In and out, like an adrenaline-filled hambuglar, snatchin' patties.
- smpaisnutrients, on 11/05/2009, -1/+1you mad.
- c3rb85, on 11/05/2009, -2/+1The only thing I could think of is if this is driving clicks to the stations page and they have advertising on it that advertisers are paying for based on how many site visits they get, it could be looked at in that direction. However I don't know enough about all this to know that I'm correct.
But I'll let her slide if she's making a huff about nothing because she's incredibly cute. - samsmartjr, on 11/05/2009, -4/+1Well, she's right in that radio stations have much to learn, but she got what radio stations have to learn wrong. What radio stations have to learn is that MUSIC RADIO SUCKS. Music radio has to compete with youtube, television, film, and video games out of the car and ipods and CDs inside the car. And all the stations play the same 40 songs over and over and OVER AND OVER anyways. I try not to listen to music radio if I can help it.
Instead, there's a local talk radio station I listen to. Much more interesting than music radio any day. And it fills a niche that can't be replaced by ipods or CDs. So the problem with radio stations isn't that it doesn't know how to adapt social media or it's business model - it's that it doesn't know how to adapt it's content. - GABACALM, on 11/05/2009, -9/+4Hey guys, she's online on AIM : qqkristin
Let's all let her know how much we support her in this momentus struggle against click fraud. - FrogKermit, on 11/05/2009, -13/+2Yo, I never do this, but TL;DR: can someone summarize this article for me?
[in b4 "The story of a Seattle Radio station attempting to dive into social media, but instead gets called out for click fraud."] - eljitto, on 11/05/2009, -14/+1I know people have been going around Digg saying how "Nickelback Sucks", but if you think about it, what else good has come from canada? I mean canadaian bacon DOES have bacon in it's name, but it technically is ham. So i can conclude Nickelback is the second best thing from canada, because everyhting else simply sucks,
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