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By: CJ

CJ — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:17:46 +0000

Adds would be all right. I would personally love to see a creation museum add on your site, just for the cognitive dissonance.

I assume that you find pop ups and pop unders just as annoying as we do, so I don’t worry about you adding them.

By: compactbarbie

compactbarbie — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:26:43 +0000

Personally speaking, I only notice a site has ads when they are REALLY annoying, like the ones that pop up and keep flashing until you close them. Most of the news/sci fi sites I look at regularly apparantly have ads – I’ve just gone back to check, as I couldn’t have told you before – so it really wouldn’t worry me personally.

I do have to say that I also like the idea of a subscription type service to whatever, it would make it feel more of a club but may also make people feel that they have some say in the site, which would take something away from it somehow. I also think it would cut the numbers of visitors unless the fees were voluntary and then, not sure how many people would actually cough up.

I say then: Ads, blah, whatever!

By: DPWally

DPWally — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:12:59 +0000

I’m not a big fan of advertising in any form, but it has its uses (the advertising-gullible fund advertisers who fund stuff I can view for free if I put up with the advertising).

Please find an ad provider that has ethical standards in format and content.

Ethical format: No pop-ups, pop-unders, flashers, or floaters. No audio without user permission.

Ethical content: No advertising that pretends to be something else, such as a system warning, virus alert, or web error. No frauds, if it has to misspell a pharmaceutical, they’re selling something else.

By: Dawn Falcon

Dawn Falcon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:03:27 +0000

I’d like to put in another nomination for Project Wonderful for adverts. You have control over what gets shown, the advertisers know what sort of site they’re pushing adverts to and they pay.

By: Stan

Stan — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:04:36 +0000

Speaking of Wayback machines, here is a take on the internet from 1934.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2a1_1221941168

By: Jude

Jude — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:44:58 +0000

Ads would be fine.

By: Ewan

Ewan — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:50:37 +0000

p.s. Would I pay for Whatever access? Yes, probably; the history is long enough and the content valuable enough. I doubt that you’d get many new readers willing to do so, so the subs would need to be voluntary. Overall, I agree with you that saving such requests for charity is an element of the ambience here that I like.

[Plus, a sub setup would make it harder to force future Creation Museum visits ;-))]

By: Ewan

Ewan — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:47:26 +0000

as comfortable as I am, I am not so comfortable that I can easily spend the several thousands of dollars I would need at this point to overhaul and revamp the site and put it on technologically robust footing, or to hire someone even in a part-time capacity to to assist me with stuff I would like to be assisted with.

I pondered this for a bit; the result of said pondering is that while I suspect (which prompted said pondering) that someone such as Tor *would* both have, and be willing to use for this, the required resources, they might also request editorial input.

Which would be worse than ads.

[On the other hand, maybe they wouldn't. I don't know how much leverage you already get in contracts because you have the Whatever visibility.]

Second tangential comment: if the Whatever becomes significantly difficult for folk to access, my bet is that regardless of the ad decision, it will be worthwhile to invest needed time/$ to fix that. But then you’ll know whether that’s true better than do I, so not very helpful.

Actual answer to question: go ahead; I will likely not see them anyway, and would not expect you to host ads tht would annoy me in any case.

Comment on above: I’m surprised at the level of agreement in responses. Folk must trust your judgement. Whoda thunk?

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:15:21 +0000

Very early on in my online experience I trained myself to not even see online ads. For all I know, you could have put ads on the site months ago. I’d never notice.