[Rant] Freedom of speech is no more on a popular Amiga site. | ANN.lu |
Posted on 03-Feb-2004 15:32 GMT by Jordan Taylor | 238 comments View flat View list |
Today a so-called Amiga site which was supposed to allow freedom of speech has now become a exposed heavily censored website, webmasters acting like children insulting members of the site just because they stand up and say what they think.
I feel betrayed.
Check it out yourself here
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Freedom of speech is no more on a popular Amiga site. : Comment 213 of 238 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Wayne Hunt on 07-Feb-2004 17:41 GMT | In reply to Comment 209 (Big Red Troll): It's very simple really. When the top links block was up, and Amigaworld.net was nothing but a static page describing an IRC channel -- not what it is now, it used to get several hundred hits per day (one exactly every 5 minutes). In a matter of a couple of weeks, it had amassed over 7000 hits to a STATIC SITE which had never changed.
Essentially, someone had written a simple PHP script on their server or whatever which continually refreshed the URL to our hit counter every 5 minutes, 24/7 using an anonymous IP proxy.
Remember. This was all before Amigaworld.net was what it is now and suggested that the OLD Amigaworld.net static IRC page was 3x more popular than ANN, Moobunny, Czech Amiga News (remember them) and all other Amiga sites combined.
That's what I consider cheating.
Besides, it simply makes more sense to me to put up the NEWEST links and let people visit the newest sites, giving people much more initiative to add sites to our listings. |
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