In a message dated 11/7/2010 2:03:27 PM Pacific
Standard Time,
jayvdb(a)gmail.com writes:
I'm
also skeptical that any sort of tab that is just a click here to
see
ads will be very productive. I'm also
skeptical that manually placed
and
manually monitored, internet advertising even
pays for the wages of the
worker.
This is why Google uses automagic. And why everyone else does as well.
Not everyone. There are still many websites that only have a few
sponsors.
--
John Vandenberg
The number of sponsors is not related to the question of whether they are
manually placing and monitoring ads on a page by page basis.
Sites with few sponsors can also be rotating ads through automagic, so it's
not a question of the number of sponsors.
My counter point was that the issue of placing relevant ads manually, is
financial suicide, as the income from individual ads is minimal. My point
being, that the income from individual ads placed, is far less than the wages
paid to the human ad placer and monitor.
I agree with you that manually placing and monitoring ads on a
per-article basis would not be cost effective. If it was a paid
employee, the community would quickly grow a distrust for them. If it
was the community placing ads, it would skew the community and
probably result in admin boards being twice as nasty.
However we could encourage donations by having a static page that is
part of the UI of each project that prominently lists everyone who has
donated to WMF. e.g.