Eggheads analyse Free Porn business model

[gonzo]

Interface: Free “Smut” As Deception

Yevgeniy Medynskiy of the Culturally Embedded Computing Group at Cornell University has a paper available online on Free “Smut” As Deception.
Deceiving the user of an interface is usually considered a poor design decision. It is rare to find deceitful interfaces, and most of the time if a user recognizes deception, she will try to ensure that that experience not repeated. In this position paper, I will examine the deception in the interfaces to Thumbnail Gallery Posts (TGPs) – ad-driven websites providing links to purportedly free pornography. TGPs are some of the most popular destinations on the Internet, and the design of many of them suggests repeat users are common. After describing the deception in their interfaces, and how it is accomplished, I will speculate on why this type of deception has become a norm and why the users of these websites tolerate it, unlike most other forms of deception.

[spazlabz]

Originally Posted by gonzo

I will speculate on why this type of deception has become a norm and why the users of these websites tolerate it, unlike most other forms of deception.

it works
they jerk off to it
biggest problem with TGPs is they reward premature ejaculators.


spaz

[Grump]

This guy has to speculate on why people can't think with no blood in their brain?

[Jace]

damn...i can't read sideways

oh wait, I can turn my laptop on it's side

[Useless]

Originally Posted by gonzo

Yevgeniy Medynskiy of the Culturally Embedded Computing Group

Fucking Russians.

My apologies, of course, if any of you are a fucking Russian.

[bluemoney]

Originally Posted by Useless

Fucking Russians.

My apologies, of course, if any of you are a fucking Russian.

Funny? I thought you were a connoisseur of fine Russian Wallpaper.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by bluemoney

Funny? I thought you were a connoisseur of fine Russian Wallpaper.

I am a lover of the "what the hell were they thinking" school of interior design.

[docholly]

Originally Posted by Useless

I am a lover of the "what the hell were they thinking" school of interior design.

Lost in the 60's with you!!

Hi UW!!

[Useless]

Originally Posted by docholly

Lost in the 60's with you!!

Hi UW!!

Holly!
Me getting lost in the sixties would involve time travel. I was born in 1970, which explains my silky-smooth bottom.

[Elli]

Please tell me he didn't get paid to write that paper.

[Hammer]

Where's the deception and the 'purportedly free' porn? Did he actually look at any real TGPs or just some CJs?

[Panky]

Originally Posted by spazlabz

biggest problem with TGPs is they reward premature ejaculators.


spaz

It's not the TGP sites. It's the people who build galleries with little to no concept of the tease factor.

[melody]

Originally Posted by gonzo

Interface: Free “Smut” As Deception

Yevgeniy Medynskiy of the Culturally Embedded Computing Group at Cornell University has a paper available online on Free “Smut” As Deception.
Deceiving the user of an interface is usually considered a poor design decision.

Why is it all Academician rhetoric pieces are loaded for bear these days?

The "user deception" concept has been on-going since Reader's Digest sent out its first "free trial issue [tiny]to be rebilled unless you cancel before the second issue[/tiny] and then only ten cents per copy" mailer in about 1922.

The "free sample" concept (in hopes the buyer doesn't read the small print) has been around forever. They only turn their noses up now because it's porn that's been offered.