Daily Fail stiring up cyclist hate yet again.

[Profpointy]

I think we're all old enough to make up our own minds.

Of course you can make up your own mind. I can't order anyone not to give money to encourage hatred and violence to cyclists ( amongst others)

 

[Tin Pot]

I think we're all old enough to make up our own minds.

Is this a quote from US Election Day?

 

[Cycleops]

Just don't click folks

Of course you can make up your own mind. I can't order anyone not to give money to encourage hatred and violence to cyclists ( amongst others)

But you already have.

 

[jefmcg]

But you already have.

It's not an order, because he obviously knows he doesn't command anyone around here. Use of the imperative for added force is part of standard English.

I can't even think how else he could phrase it. "Please don't click"? "Would you mind not clicking"?, "I'd be awfully happy if you didn't cllck"?

Edit: actually "Just don't click folks" is nearly as mild as my suggestions. I bewildered by the you-can't-tell-me-what-to-do reaction.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Well ok, but every time you click on a daily mail link you are quite literally giving them money and also quite literally paying for further anti cyclist propaganda which can often come close to incitement to kill cyclists (supposedly just a joke). This is quite apart from casual racism, homophobia, sexism etc even though they may slightly downplay their former support for Hitler

Just don't click folks

Responding to that rubbish with counter-arguments is better than sticking your head in the sand. As for clicks giving the news company money: how much money would one click give them? Personally, I think it's better to try to educate people than to pretend a problem doesn't exist.

 

[ianrauk]

[QUOTE 4673563, member: 45"]Who needs the DM when we've got cyclists on youtube doing the job for them?

https://www.youtube.com/user/uphillfreewheeler/videos[/QUOTE]


Make me shiver seeing that name.
Along with those 2 other twits.

 

[Johnno260]

Can't be bothered to respond to the article comments, at work I get loads of anti cyclist comments and people just aren't interested in listening to reason.

Let the small minded tools think what they want.

 

[Profpointy]

Responding to that rubbish with counter-arguments is better than sticking your head in the sand. As for clicks giving the news company money: how much money would one click give them? Personally, I think it's better to try to educate people than to pretend a problem doesn't exist.

How much money one click gives is obvioulsy not much, yet all the clicks entirely fund the site. They have no other income. By engaging you are funding them and specifically you are funding this kind of article.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

How much money one click gives is obvioulsy not much, yet all the clicks entirely fund the site. They have no other income. By engaging you are funding them and specifically you are funding this kind of article.

Yes, you made that point with the previous post, and I understood it then. There's no need to repeat the point.

 

[Profpointy]

Yes, you made that point with the previous post, and I understood it then. There's no need to repeat the point.

Mmm, I seem to have made a hash of quoting so tidying up now

 

[Shut Up Legs]

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...s-daily-mail-as-unreliable-source-for-website

 

[Profpointy]

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...s-daily-mail-as-unreliable-source-for-website

Quite a measured and balanced article with smugness kept within bounds as well

 

[Drago]

Isn't that like Sweeney Todd banning Gillette?

 

[Milkfloat]

How much money one click gives is obvioulsy not much, yet all the clicks entirely fund the site. They have no other income. By engaging you are funding them and specifically you are funding this kind of article.

Surely that depends if you have an ad blocker or not. I would assume that it is advert loads or click through that count, not page loads. If you have an ad blocker you could in fact be costing them money.

 

[Lonestar]

Isn't that like Sweeney Todd banning Gillette?

Yup all the media are full of bull.