[Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

Sat Dec 31 14:42:00 UTC 2011

Hi everyone -

It's a trade off between doing things that might annoy some people in the
banners vs. reducing the number of days we need to run banners at all. It's
hard to find the right balance.

We're always trying to find the least annoying banners that make the most
money so that we can run them the shortest possible time.

We reduced the fundraiser from 50 days to 46 this year. Next year we hope
to shave more days off again.

The alternating message banners work really well on the last couple days
because there are two different very effective messages in those days. But
we're always looking for a better way, so maybe next year we won't have to
do alternating messages at all.

Zack

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 4:38 AM, Theo10011 <de10011 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
> amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>
> > 2011/12/31 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
> > > We appear to have actual blinking ads. Unfortunate. Still I suppose
> > > the occasion should be marked.
> >
> > They are not blinking in a manner that is even remotely obnoxious. And
> > they are also used for displaying bilingual messages, which is very
> > useful for areas in which you can't be sure whether people prefer
> > English or the local language, like India.
>
>
> Actually, no. They are obnoxious in any language and area. Also, the most
> widely viewed banners are in English in India.
>
> We see the same blinks with the same pair of eyes as the rest of the world.
> Content of the blink-ads, doesn't change what they are.
>
> Regards
> Theo
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Zack Exley
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