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Best course of action is for GP to step away from the television for a while.

• downandout 8y ago
  Or maybe the best course of action for HNers is to be far less judgmental and self-centered, and offer something other than snark in their comments. I don't spend a great deal of time watching TV, and when I do it is mostly DVR'd content. To have old episodes marked as new doesn't make a huge difference to one viewer - it's an annoyance that costs me a bit of time. But for the people behind this, across millions of viewers also experiencing the same thing, it makes a very large difference in terms of inflated viewership. That's a large-scale, significant fraud, likely involving millions of hours of watch time and millions of dollars in fraudulently generated ad revenue. THAT is why maybe someone like the FCC should take a look at the issue.
  • chrisseaton 8y ago
    Even if they’re ‘tricking’ people into watching a re-run (seems a silly thing to say to me) then it’s still a view isn’t it? People are still watching the adverts so why would the advertisers care? The viewer numbers aren’t wrong.