Photo article: Greece - pre-riot porn as the Commies gather in Syntagma Square to say Oxi

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   Marvin

   10 July 2015, 13:19

   I’d be fucking rioting if I were Greek.
   But then again the referendum didn’t ask the right question.

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   DUCK AND DIVE

   10 July 2015, 13:56

   I know that you are interested (and invested) in Greece and feel passionately involved with the Greek people, Greek history, Greek sociology, Greek politics and Greek tragedy; but I may not be alone in being interested only in the outcome of this protracted play and its impact on my investments. I couldn’t give a fig (or olive) for the public demonstrations, the (mythical) riots, the vox pop, the Athens scenery or the welfare of the idiots who voted in the current Greek government.

   But I think I know why you inflict this on us. Is it so that you can claim a mountain of Greek expenses from HMRC?

   I hope I’m right because that’s the only explanation that really makes sense to me.

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   Tom Winnifrith

   11 July 2015, 02:36

   D&D

   You are a narrow minded selfish prat who clearly have not read my answers to previous dumb posts of this nature.

   a) I write about what interests me. I suffered a number of years when I could not write about what interested me or say what I though. I have been free for 3 years and love it. I do not give a FF about whether 1 person reads an article or 1000, I write what I want. So this is what interests me, no-one is forcing you to read it.

   b) I shall not be claiming a cent back from HMRC for this trip.

   c) If I wanted a holiday here I would go to the Mani. Athens is not a place Id go on holiday, I came here to work.

   d) As it happens page views suggest that your narrow minded and selfish view “what is in it for me” is not one that many ShareProphets readers share. I am rather pleased that so many readers seem to want to know the real story and find some interest in the real Greece. I guess they either care about himan suffering or have enquiring minds or both. You have neither.

   If you want a narrow wankfest of what is in it for me articles about Money I suggest you just confine yourself to the LSE Asylum and Daily Mail.

   readers of this website pay nothing to read it and it is always run on the inviolate principle that our writers write about what interests them and with zero editorial influence on stance. I set this up on that basis and it applies to me as to any other writer. That is not going to change.

   T

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   DUCK AND DIVE

   11 July 2015, 05:10

   With respect, Tom (because I do admire you and subscribe fully to your campaign to clean up AIM) I thought that most of your highly personalised and emotionally charged essays on Greece’s financial and human crisis would have been more appropriate to TomWinnifrith.com than ShareProphets. As a general rule, Brits don’t give a shit about the Greeks or any other nation. The only reasons we tolerate them, talk to them and visit them are to a) sell them something; b) get a suntan; or c) watch a football match.

   So, if the curtain is now down on the current tragedy, or at least Act 1, could you possibly re-focus on the stuff I assume most of us come here to read?

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   Tom Winnifrith

   11 July 2015, 05:20

   D&D

   a) as per prior comment from me. The Greece pieces have rated very highly in terms of page views. It appears that SP readers do have an interest in seeing the real social picture and you are rare in being a selfish bastard who cares only about how Greece effects your pocket book.

   b) When did you buy ShareProphets & Tom Winnifrith.com? If it is a done deal then I’ll send a resignation letter in from both before Monday. If you are not my boss then I fear that you are not in a position to dictate what I write or where I write.

   T

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   J P Spaghetti

   11 July 2015, 05:29

   Anyone hear the one about the downtrodden nation threatening to sue the corporate incarnation of Lucifer on Earth (i.e., Goldman Sachs) for its role in ensnaring them with the Euro back at the start of the millennium? Now that has both a human interest and a wider economic angle…

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   DUCK AND DIVE

   11 July 2015, 16:49

   Page views would include visits by people sucked in by misleading headlines such as “riot”, “porn”, “waitress babe”, etc.

   Why not publish a reader poll to find out the real answer to the question: “Do you want to read more of my subjective, over-hyped, biased, misleading, Marxist and repetitive propaganda about the proud and long-suffering people of Greece?”

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   DUCK AND DIVE

   12 July 2015, 03:07

   Tom, of course you get page views when you lure the unwary in with misleading keywords in headlines, such as “riot”, “porn”, “waitress babe”, “big knockers”, “increase your penis size”, etc. And, at times, there’s bog all else to read: 60+ articles or podcasts about Greece in little more than a fortnight would be defined as spam in another context. ShareProphets visitors are being mugged.

   If you dared to run a reader poll to gauge the real interest in different ShareProphets topics, I’d wager that your tripodal cat would rate higher than Greece.

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   Tom Winnifrith

   12 July 2015, 05:57

   D&D

   ShareProphets readers know that riot porn is not a hint that you have babes with their kit off. If we suck in the odd pervert from google it is miniscule.

   As for your poll when will you get it into your thick head that like all the writers here I write what I want. If you dont like Greece coverage dont read it. If you want a reader poll “shall we order Tom to write what we want and have him quit go ahead? The day I am told what to write or not to write is the day I stop writing here.

   T

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    DUCK AND DIVE

    12 July 2015, 07:37

    Tom, I fear you’re being a tad disingenuous. Surely ShareProphets is a business rather than a platform for its writers’ vanities? Surely you have to maintain the diet of AIM insight and exposure upon which the site’s reputation has been built? Surely you would not allow any other writer to publish 60 pieces over two weeks on, say, Turkey’s role in Europe? Surely ShareProphets wants more advertising revenue and more readers – rather than the 25% drop in unique readers since the heady days of spring?

    If you do, you need more discipline and less vanity. I would be very sad if this great campaigning site were to drown in a torrent of subjective, off-topic essays/propaganda by any of its writers.

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    Tom Winnifrith

    12 July 2015, 08:02

    D&D

    Yes ShareProphets is a business. But it is not a PLC and is not under any obligation to maximise profit. Its owners understand that.

    They are also aware that one writer alone among its stable typically generates c65-75% of the traffic on this website and that this one writer – who set the website up – has stipulated that no writer can be barred from saying what he or she wishes and no writer can be told what to write. And moreover that if this happens to any one writer here even to that one writer, it is game over.

    Frankly I do not care if page views fell because of Grece coverage. It made me happy to be writing that stuff and making me happy is important to the shareholders becuase If I am unhappy and decide to do something else they know what will happen.

    But as it happens in Greece heavy week traffic as – as the hardman revealed earlier – UP! I have noted before that ShareProphets readers have enquiring minds ( with the exception of er….) and it seems we also attracted a few new readers.

    T

    PS I am now back in Bristol and as you can see churning out AIM specific copy.
    PPS I am actually meant to be on sabbatical!