On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:26 AM, William Pietri
<william(a)scissor.com>
wrote:
People are doing some interesting work with
auto-optimized ad runs that
we could look at adapting for next year. Given our massive amounts of
traffic, we could accept a pretty broad range of slogans, and let the
system sort out which are the most effective combinations. Money aside,
there's something appealing about maximizing community involvement
everywhere we can.
Ew. Is that really what advertising and marketing have been reduced
to? Spew out whatever random text as long as it gets the $$$? Please
let us have some self-respect.
Steve
I think self-respect is a luxury for us folks who don't have to worry about
meeting fundraising goals. All those servers and all that bandwidth isn't
free. These ads were bad, but they're improving. I think we ought to be
willing to accept some fundraising once a year if we can keep it in mind
that these fundraising drives keep corporate advertizing off Wikipedia. That
alone ought to put this in perspective.
- causa sui