[Foundation-l] No, even a couple of Google ads on each page would be a fatally bad idea

[Ziko van Dijk]

Hello,

Adverts do not make content wrong, but create mistrust.
Have a look what Lawrence Lessig tells about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHma3ZQRVoA

Kind regards
Ziko



2010/11/5 Cool Hand Luke <User.CoolHandLuke at gmail.com>:
> This was manifestly not a "fatal" idea.  In fact, it appears they concluded
> that *operating on donations *would be fatal.  Moral of the story: Wikipedia
> is different.
>
> Considering how much spam we receive, and how long some of it persists, I
> sometimes wonder if we haven't miscalculated the costs and benefits.  For
> example, WMF could be getting something like $30 per-click on ads in
> articles like Mesothelioma.  Ad money instead goes to enterprising spammers
> who sometimes succeed in placing their links in high-traffic or high value
> articles.
>
> Frank
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:02 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ... and compromise content, as TV Tropes found out:
>>
>>
>> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheSituation?from=Main.TheGoogleIncident
>>
>>
>> - d.
>>
>>
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