[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

[White Cat]

Well, I agree with you. :)

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>
> --
>  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
>
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