On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:26 AM, William Pietri <[email protected]> > 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 > > I think self-respect is a luxury for us folks who don't have to worry about meeting fundraising goals. All those servers and all that bandwidth isn't free. These ads were bad, but they're improving. I think we ought to be willing to accept some fundraising once a year if we can keep it in mind that these fundraising drives keep corporate advertizing off Wikipedia. That alone ought to put this in perspective. - causa sui _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
