Your Questions About Web Host Ratings
Donald asks…
How do you feel about ” To Catch a Predator” on NBC?
1. Advertisers Wary of ‘To Catch a Predator’
NBC’s sting-operation segments “To Catch a Predator” have scored solid ratings and created positive buzz among viewers, but the network appears to be scaling back its commitment to the program — because the content reportedly makes advertisers uneasy.
So far this year NBC has filmed only one sting operation for the program — which airs as a segment of its “Dateline NBC” newsmagazine — compared with seven last year.
The most recent episode, on July 25, included six national spot ads, significantly fewer than normal for a show in NBC’s prime time, according to The New York Times.
“Some advertisers say they are wary of being associated with the show’s content, in which men lured to a house by the promise of a sexual encounter are instead surprised by [host Chris] Hansen and then arrested,” the Times reports.
And Andy Donchin, a director at the ad agency Carat USA, told the Times: “We’re all concerned with what content we’re associating ourselves with.”
The program’s producers work with a pedophile watchdog group, Perverted Justice, whose members pose as underage Internet users and converse with adults in chat rooms. If a conversation turns sexual, the “underage” Web surfer agrees to meet the adult in person. When the adult arrives at the meeting place, he is confronted by Hansen and a film crew and arrested by local police.
The program — which first aired in November 2004 — is currently facing two lawsuits, one stemming from a suicide.
Perverted Justice maintains that Louis Conradt, a prosecutor in Terrell, Texas, engaged in sexual conversations online, but he did not show up at the meeting place. Police obtained an arrest warrant, and as officers and “Predator” crewmembers approached his home, Conradt shot himself in the head on Nov. 5, 2006. His sister filed a lawsuit against NBC in July, seeking $105 million in damages.
In the other suit, former “Dateline” producer Marsha Bartel asserted that she was fired because she opposed what she called the program’s unethical production practices. She contends that Perverted Justice did not keep accurate transcripts of the online conversations between the predators and the watchdog group’s members.
Brian Montopoli of the CBS News Public Eye blog — and a former staffer at the Columbia Journalism Review — has maintained that the program is in some cases a form of entrapment.
He has also argued that while legal punishment of predators is left to police and prosecutors, airing the suspects on national television is already a form of punishment that the media has no right to inflict.
In addition to the bad publicity and advertiser reticence, “Predator” is also expensive to produce, according to the Times.
Regarding the network’s seeming reluctance to commit to the show, Brad Adgate, senior vice president for research at the ad-buying agency Horizon Media, told the Times: “NBC’s probably thinking about what their return on investment is, and might be thinking it’s better to move on.”
admin answers:
A clear violation of Due Process. The men need to be convicted before exposing them on television or else it violates the Constitution.
I also think it gives a false impression of child abuse . . . Most children are abused by people they know, often members of their own family, and not by strangers.
I also think that its mainly just another reality TV show . . . People watch it to see others humiliated just like Indian Idol, they don’t change their behaviours because of it because they think it will never happen to them.
Chris asks…
Website Help Anyone? Domain Name or Server?
I’m planning on creating a website similar to www.ratemyteacher.com but no for teachers. Anyway I don’t really know much on making website but this is just a little project. Main question is that when looking for web site host I encounter much more than domain names like servers and such. For a webiste that is userbased and has ratings and such would I need a server?
admin answers:
In order to have your site accessible by other users you would need web hosting (or a server) and preferably a domain name, or at least hosting which comes with a sub-domain name.
For hosting I use dreamhost.com and for domain names I use godaddy.com
Michael asks…
Is 000space any good?
I’m thinking about alternative web hosting for my tutorial site, and I’m just wondering how good 000space is. The ratings on free-webhosts.com were disabled, so I’m not sure what to compare it to. Also, does it have an inactivity limit? I didn’t see this on their site…
Please don’t recommend any paid services. I’ve been using free services to build up traffic for my brand and I’m not ready to invest money in it yet. I really could care less if it’s five dollars or even one dollar. No means no.
Guys, I specifically told you I need free. I’m specifically using free services until I get enough traffic to warrant an upgrade. I’m not stupid. I won’t pay for something I don’t need.
admin answers:
Try Dot easy web hosting it is a very good service and they offer very good free web hosting in their basic package and under basic hosting you get
100Mb of Hosting Storage
1 Gb of Data Transfer
10 E-mail accounts,10 Add on Domain,10 Sub Domains
10 Parked Domains plus a lot of other really good features including A website creator tool and others.
I highly recommend it.
John asks…
Can i sell my dot.com web address?
I currently own what I think is a good name a feedback / ratings website www.ratedon.com – I have this through a hosting company – so can I “sell” it by giving it up or transferring it to someone else?
If so, any tips on the best way to sell such a thing?
Thanks!
admin answers:
I have sold a domain name a year ago. It was a domain from Godaddy. It was pretty simple. If the buyer is a Godaddy member already you can do a transfer if the price is under $500. If it’s over $500 you will use a escrow company who will handle the transaction and contact Godaddy to tell them to complete the transaction. This is how it went down.
I got an email from a guy asking to by my site.
I thought it was a scam so I called Godaddy. They verified that a buyer wanted to buy my site.
They asked if I would consider selling.
I said yes.
The buyer already told me what his offer was $650
I excepted this offer and told Godaddy that’s my price.
They set up the Escrow company…Buyer deposited the funds into Escrow.
I then Gave Godaddy permission to release the domain name.
The escrow company verifies the transfer.
You then have a choice to either have them pay by direct deposit (FEES) or Mail a check.
I chose a check to be mailed. All fees for escrow company are paid by buyer unless you want them to direct deposit the funds, then they will charge you a fee for that…Just get the check.
The whole process to about 10 days. All in all it was great. I paid about $10 for domain and sold it for $650…I was not trying to sell this domain..The guy contacted me out of the blue..That’s why I thought it might be a scam…I wish I had about 50 more domains just like that one.
I hope that helps.
Jeff
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