by Tdarcos » Tue Aug 02, 2011 12:11 am
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Tdarcos wrote:Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:But do you understand that Pinner putting something in his sig is more a "fire and forget" thing? He's not really asking people do go there each time he posts a message with the sig enabled?
I think a sig with "just click on this goddam link" clearly qualifies as a request and he is asking people to go there, same as an ad on TV for a charity begs for money.
What if a tv station suddenly had no people show up to work? And they just kept the same commercials on repeat? Under those conditions, would you say that there wasn't an ongoing, active request to pick Geico or whatever?
In view of your clearly stupid and inadequately reasoned argument I am reducing by 1 any apologies that Flack recommended I owe you.
Geico and any other advertiser are still running their ads with their phone numbers. Whether there is anyone at the station or everything runs by automated production is irrelevant. And if Geico's website or phone number was non functioning, then it's Geico's fault, it would not matter whether the station has 200 people working there, or 20, or nobody showed up at all.
Your comment would only make sense if I was blaming Jolt Country because Pinhead's signature references a no-longer-valid website. My comment is on the order of blaming Geico because the phone number or website in their commercial was not working. Your comment is like I'm blaming this website for Pinback's failure, which I am not.
[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote="Tdarcos"][quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]But do you understand that Pinner putting something in his sig is more a "fire and forget" thing? He's not really asking people do go there each time he posts a message with the sig enabled?[/quote]
I think a sig with "just click on this goddam link" clearly qualifies as a request and he is asking people to go there, same as an ad on TV for a charity begs for money.[/quote]
What if a tv station suddenly had no people show up to work? And they just kept the same commercials on repeat? Under those conditions, would you say that there wasn't an ongoing, active request to pick Geico or whatever?[/quote]
In view of your clearly stupid and inadequately reasoned argument I am reducing by 1 any apologies that Flack recommended I owe you.
Geico and any other advertiser are still running their ads with their phone numbers. Whether there is anyone at the station or everything runs by automated production is irrelevant. And if Geico's website or phone number was non functioning, then it's Geico's fault, it would not matter whether the station has 200 people working there, or 20, or nobody showed up at all.
Your comment would only make sense if I was blaming Jolt Country because Pinhead's signature references a no-longer-valid website. My comment is on the order of blaming Geico because the phone number or website in their commercial was not working. Your comment is like I'm blaming this website for Pinback's failure, which I am not.