Er, ok, so to help the .1% of signups coming from journalist or bloggers, we add a checkbox that's out of place and irrelevant to the 99.9% of actual potential users which could have the negative effect of losing signups from having some weird checkbox asking if they're a blogger or journalist?

Try to imagine if vimeo or YouTube, tumblr, Facebook, or absolutely any site that implemented this in their signup form. It just plain sounds dumb. User signups are supposed to be as frictionless as possible.

What a selfish idea that only serves the author and the small percentage of similar people at the expense of the interests of the businesses they intend to write for.

Or is the author just being facetious?