[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

Fri Mar 21 02:44:55 UTC 2008

On 21/03/2008, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I agree. Pop up ads would be better than inline ads.
>
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>  ----- 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?
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>  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

If the only way to have adverts is to have pop-ups, then we shouldn't
have adverts. Forcing your user to actively get rid of the advert if
they want to read the article is very bad - adverts should be out of
the way where users can look at them if they want and ignore them if
they want.