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

Sat Nov 6 11:27:13 UTC 2010

I don't think I could stand it if we picked up advertising. I hate the way
wikia looks, and therefore have an aversion to contributing in any way to
its progress. Can you imagine! We actually link to Wikia sites and give them
traffic (though I guess that is better than filling up wikibooks and
wikipedia with useless junk)! Wikia is like the no good jerk up the street.
Imagine us turning to ads after all these years! I am sure it could be
a revenue source for some, but we are different, we are better. We create
the best family of websites in the world, let's not mar them with ads. You
know, wikia should sell itself to the Wikimedia Foundation so that Wikimedia
would get the money. Then too, I guess the board members need some way to
make money. What actually might be a better idea, would be for wikia to pay
the board, since it is a for profit company. Or am I missing the point
entirely? I read what that Greg Kohs said about it, and while I agree that
it did sound like a conflict of interest, I don't know how much of this is
proper or not. Anyway, those are my useless ramblings, so bye.

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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
>
> After the first few minutes it turns into a long drawn out infomercial
> supporting US "campaign finance reform".
>
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