[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

[Brian]

As far as the brain concerned they are no different. See [[Priming
(psychology)]].

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I agree. Pop up ads would be better than inline ads.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 4:47:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Advertisements?
>
> You kinda got me concerned when you said "pops up" but then I read the
> rest
> of the sentence. It also got me thinking.
>
> Pop-up ads would be better than in-line adds. Granted more annoying but
> would be less of a compromise from NPOV. Basicaly we would cover the
> screen
> with the ford logo rather than put the ford logo in the middle of the
> page.
>
>  - White Cat
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> > Nathan wrote:
> > > Can you comment on in what circumstances or at what point the Board
> > would
> > > consider a step like that?
> >
> > Oh, I have no idea.
> >
> > This question pops up in the community from time to time, and the press
> > loves the question.
> >
> > One of the concerns I have about this whole issue is that it can be such
> > a "third rail" to even discuss it or look into it.  I think that's
> > unfortunate.  My longtime position is that we should really make sure we
> > have a very good idea of how much money we are turning down before we
> > turn it down.  (Including various variants such as one-click permanent
> > opt-out, opt-in, search page only, approval by community on a per-ad
> > basis only, etc.)
> >
> > My own sense of things is that even after we look (together, as a
> > community) at all those options (calmly, rationally, and without people
> > going into hysterics that the discussion is even happening), we will
> > still turn down ads.  But we will then be doing so in a responsible
> > adult manner, rather than a knee-jerk manner.
> >
> > But, this is just the opinion of one community member / board member.
> >
> > --Jimbo
> >
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