2008/11/5 Delirium delirium@hackish.org
Erik Moeller wrote:
this banner will only be up during our Annual Campaign, from today to January 15.
So we'll "only" have to put up with a banner with a distracting solid-blood-red blob at the top of pages, which doesn't even go away when you hit "hide", for 2 1/2 months?
I don't mind a banner existing, but I do very much mind that it doesn't get hidden, or at least collapse into something small and text-only (without distracting blocks of color!) when I hit the "hide" button. Do you really think harrassing your volunteers is going to make them donate?
-Mark
Someone has very kindly written a script that is now available on the
Gadget tab in your preferences. I appreciate that there may have been thoughts that tonight would be the perfect opportunity to combine the fundraising with the anticipated increase in readership. One should keep in mind, however, that this is the first US presidential election since Wikipedia has become such a popular source of information, and nobody really knew what would happen. We had several articles getting 50K-150K hits/hour. Instead of reaching hundreds of thousands of potential donors, we unintentionally shut out a significant number of them. I will leave it to others to do the cost/benefit ratio.
Incidentally, thanks to the folks on the technical side of the house for putting things back together tonight for those of us whose feeds are through the Florida servers.
Risker