[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

[White Cat]

It wouldn't be malicious popups obviously.

I whole heartedly hate the idea of advertisements on wikipedia but if we are
going to have ads they should not be inline ones. Popups are easier to deal
with than flashy in line ads.

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:44 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 21/03/2008, 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
>
> If the only way to have adverts is to have pop-ups, then we shouldn't
> have adverts. Forcing your user to actively get rid of the advert if
> they want to read the article is very bad - adverts should be out of
> the way where users can look at them if they want and ignore them if
> they want.
>
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