Quote from michaelscott:
I have my suspicions, but I think Baron is the one who throws up some of these "idiot" questions that we see come up all the time so he can get hits to the site. About every other day we see a question come up that seems rather basic from a user who just created his id and then what follows is a mountain of replies.
I dont know the tricks of the website business...but I think that might be one of them.
Best trick in the website marketing business is to create controversy.
Think about it, sign up a questionable vendor and then encourage that vendor to post some advertising messages.
We all know what happens...
Hot heated debates and the threads easily becomes the most popular hit thread at ET.
Keeping many members glue to it so they can post their next reply.
Now think about the controversial non-vendors at ET (I won't mention any names) that discuss the details of their methods.
They help generate a lot of bandwidth for Baron and that looks good for advertisers wanting proof this is a popular site to advertise at.
Thus, one can argue that we will never see a better "ignore" feature because it could actually hurt Baron's bottom line.
Mark
