popups, lightboxes, talking jimbos: Fundraising 2011
Happy New Year everyone!
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:56 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Brian J Mingus wrote:
I guess nobody cares if you top post or bottom
post here, but it does get
confusing when the two are mixed in the same thread.
I care. You shouldn't be top-posting or bottom-posting. Use inline posting:
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
Brian J Mingus (also) wrote:
Firstly, this is probably just an experiment to
see if it draws more
donations. If it doesn't, they probably won't use the tactic in the
future.
The issue isn't whether it's a experiment or even whether it's successful.
The issue is one of principles. Animated banner ads aren't acceptable.
Second, if WMF doesn't meet the fundraising
goal they will have to cut
something from the budget. If it's so very important to you that they not
try advertising techniques that are mildly annoying to some users you
should
start by suggesting projects that won't get
funded or people that won't
get
hired or servers that won't get bought, etc.
This is a false dilemma. The money needed to keep Wikipedia and other
Wikimedia projects running and ad-free for the next year was raised _weeks_
ago. It's against Wikimedia's principles to use obnoxious or misleading ads
to raise money in this manner.
Third, adverts are turned off for non-logged in
users. Try logging in.
As the vast majority of page views are anonymous, this is largely a moot
point. Yes, logging in will suppress the banners on an individual level.
That doesn't make it acceptable to have bad banners for most of the
readership.
MZMcBride
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