On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Marc A. Pelletier
<marc(a)uberbox.org>
wrote:
On 26/06/2012 2:02 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
>
> Wow, thank goodness we never had advertising. The TV-Tropes wiki has
been
forced to
censor a
number of pages due to advertiser pressure.
And thus is the wisdom of eschewing advertizement and sponsorship
highlighted for all too see. I've always supported the model of yearly
donation drives to avoid it -- occasionally creepy Jimmy pictures
notwithstanding -- and this is the reason why.
We are, like it or not, in a society increasingly driven by marketeers
and
focus groups; being at the mercy of entities who
care nothing for
information or knowledge so long as their precious *image* is pristine is
the norm, and Wikipedia remains a bastion of sanity in that sea of
madness.
-- Coren / Marc
Perhaps the next time someone brings up the "WMF should accept ads!"
bit, we can point back to this thread to explain why when we respond
"That would be the end of neutrality," we are not exaggerating.
Someone else will just cleverly point out the differences between Wikipedia
and TVTropes, which are many. Using a wiki platform does not make
comparisons between the two apples to apples.
~Nathan