On 31 December 2014 at 18:56, Megan Hernandez mhernandez@wikimedia.org wrote:
The large banner is set to only show up one time, regardless if a reader closes the banner or not. Most readers are not seeing these banners anymore. The blue banners at the top of the page do show up more than one time. If you close these banners, you won't see anymore banners.
So Marc was wrong and this *is* deliberate behaviour?
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It completely fails ethics and makes people want to put our banners into AdBlockPlus, where a substantial proportion of the internet won't see them, so it's not really me, is it.
You may be noticing more banners because we have increased the traffic today for a final year-end push. Banners were running at limited traffic the past two weeks. The campaign will end today.
Blatant stunts like this because it's the last day strikes me as utterly unethical behaviour, for what that's worth.
Who coded this? Who approved this? Who thought this was a good decision to make?
- d.