Reverse Psychology?

Professor warns students not to click on his blog ads...

[YesMom]

Thought this was "cute", though not advisable. Found it on a blog site.

Topic: Reverse Psychology

"To any of my students who find my blog:

<paraphrase>
Do not click the links under "Ads By Google" under any circumstances. I am not permitted to ask anyone to click on the links, therefore I am telling all my students to not do it, or they will be SEVERLY PUNISHED.

Now, get back to work..."</paraphrase>

[edited by: Jenstar at 5:56 am (utc) on May 24, 2005]
[edit reason] Paraphrased quote from site [/edit]

[Webwork]

Since the students may all be clicking from a shared IP at the school it would likely look a lot like click fraud. So, it's actually not a bad idea to warn off the students.

[oddsod]

That's funny.

But, he's still foul of the TOS by drawing attention to the ads.

[YesMom]

Since the students may all be clicking from a shared IP at the school it would likely look a lot like click fraud. So, it's actually not a bad idea to warn off the students.

I thought so, too, at first... then I saw he titled it "reverse psychology" and realized it was a veiled plea for them to click.

And, true, whatever the case he is still drawing attention!

[Webwork]

A fool and his money are soon parted . . .

[spaceylacie]

When I first read your post, I was wondering if he had put in the "reverse psychology" part, or if it was something you added.

Yeah, that foolish teacher is just asking for trouble.

[Swebbie]

SEVERLY PUNISHED.

This says it all about the state of education in the typical university today.

[oddsod]

LOL

[jim_w]

He may be doing research and not care if it gets cancled or not.

[tebrino]

Yes, but he's maybe professor in kindergarten. But that reverse psychology part...

[jim_w]

I was thinking more that it may be a psyche professor showing a class that even if you tell people to NOT do something and tell them why, that they will or will not do it anyway. But I don’t know any details of the site.

[jetteroheller]

In his case, I would insert the AdSense code by SSI and not show for the school IP and maybe a provider special for the students.

[jetteroheller]

New proposal to improve AdSense:

A list of IP adresses, where only alternate ads should be shown.

Would be a much easier solution, than to insert by SSI or other methods.