[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

[Chad]

Hardly. Browsers started including pop up blockers
for a reason.

-Chad

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:40 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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