Anthony wrote:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
You're entitled to your POV, but please don't make it sound as if those who don't share it are irrational.
It's not my intention to claim that anyone who doesn't share "my POV" (whatever that means)
Your point of view is that supporting Wikipedia through advertising would clearly and rationally be a win-win-win situation. Many hold an opposing view. You label their view as being irrationally based. I believe you are wrong to do so.
"Here's some stuff we give you altruistically, out of the goodness of our hearts, use it however you wish" would be an irrational transaction in the first place.
How so? (It's what *I* do, and I'm one of the most rational people I know.)
Incidentally, I wonder how you reconcile the position that this "stuff" is to use "however you wish" with the fact that you are arguing to restrict its use to only ad-free uses.
This is a preposterous and meaningless allegation. When I say that anyone is free to use my altruistically-donated content however they wish, that includes using it to make money. I'm not insisting that they don't use advertising; I'm insisting that I (and, by extension, the rest of the so-minded Wikipedia community) don't besmirch our altruism by doing so.