Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
I can't make any claims to be a representative user, but I personally find these sorts of things *really* annoying. When I'm trying to read an encyclopedia article, I don't want a "give us money!" link at the top, especially one with exclamation marks in it! If it were some sort of big bar thing, that'd be so much the worse, especially since it doesn't go away when I actually *do* give money. Letting me hide them would be nice.
Slashdot allows subscribers to turn off advertisements. Perhaps we could do the same thing except for donation notices?
I'd rather it let me turn them off regardless of subscription status---if I subscribe it will be a voluntary donation to help Wikimedia because I feel it deserves my money. Trying to annoy me into giving money is irritating, because I'm *already* donating my time to help create this encyclopedia. If I want to donate money as well, or don't want to, that's my business, but it's certainly not money Wikimedia "deserves", given that they're not paying me for my content.
-Mark