[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

[Lars Aronsson]

White Cat wrote:

> >  I whole heartedly hate the idea of advertisements on 
> >  wikipedia but if we are going to have ads they should not be 
> >  inline ones.

Andrew Whitworth wrote:

> I dont think i necessarily agree with this. Some inline ads 
> would not be entirely unacceptable. All ads should be text-based 
> (not blinking animated gifs, not flash, nothing with audio, 
> etc). Ads should be relegated to a very specific section of the 
> page where there will not


Some community members who oppose ads might be tempted to say 
"yeah, whatever, let's accept ads so we can finally get rid of 
this discussion topic".  The two pieces above, however, indicate 
that the discussion of *whether* to have ads is the shorter one.

A much longer discussion about *how* the advertizing should be 
done would ensue, should a decision be taken to have ads.  
Avoiding that discussion is already a strong argument against ads.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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