No, self-respect in advertising is about not actually lying about the product, making $$$ by whatever cost effective means is what it's always and *only* been about.
The only thing I will say about the current campaign, it's not about Wikipedia Forever, it's about Wikipedia until-the-next-fund-raiser. If it was forever, that might actually be worth contributing to. On 14/11/2009, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:26 AM, William Pietri <will...@scissor.com> wrote: >> People are doing some interesting work with auto-optimized ad runs that >> we could look at adapting for next year. Given our massive amounts of >> traffic, we could accept a pretty broad range of slogans, and let the >> system sort out which are the most effective combinations. Money aside, >> there's something appealing about maximizing community involvement >> everywhere we can. > > Ew. Is that really what advertising and marketing have been reduced > to? Spew out whatever random text as long as it gets the $$$? Please > let us have some self-respect. > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
