Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
If you cannot comprehend that at SOME POINT money has to be made,
I think that the only person who could validly claim that "at SOME POINT money has to be made" is me -- since I'm paying all the actual cash bills around here. But I don't say that, and in fact I say the exact opposite -- no money is really NEEDED for the immediate future.
Perhaps he's planning to give the money for my kid's college education fund? *grin*
So, that argument is pretty much a non-starter. On the other hand, user pages have been, to a degree at least, been generally considered the province of the user. I'm inclined to say that the content of those pages are subject to "raw wiki rules" which means, hey, delete it and put it back until someone gives up. But I'm not sure if that's the most useful attitude.
The only concern I have about banning advertisements in user pages is that it commits us to enforcing content-based restrictions on those pages, which are generally NOT incluced in our NPOV mission.
--Jimbo