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Nov 7, 2008, 1:53 PM

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Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions [In reply to]

2008/11/7 David Moran <fordmadoxfraud [at] gmail>:

> As far as my own reactions go, I'm not terribly bothered. Yes, the banner
> is visually irritating (I don't think it minimizes enough when you hide it),
> but that's kinda the point. Annual pledge drives on public television
> channels are irritating too, but that's the price of having PUBLIC
> TELEVISION. Wikipedia is not Google, and I think the banners are a helpful
> reminder to people of that.

Well, yeah. We're the #8 (Alexa) or #4 (ComScore) site that *doesn't
have ads*. One banner? Any other site would have FLASHING CRAP and
POPUPS and HANDY LINES OF TEXT with "Get Marcus Aurelius on eBay!" and
OTHER SUCH ANNOYING RUBBISH. We have a banner for a while once a year.

And I like the theme: "C'mon, you use the heck out of us. You can
spare some pennies."

(I'm not contributing money - I pay in chunks of my soul, like most of
us here. But I feel I get good value for them!)

- d.

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Subject	User	Time
Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	nawrich at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 7:17 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	innocentkiller at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 7:52 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	gerard.meijssen at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 7:58 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	majorly.wiki at googlemail	Nov 7, 2008, 8:01 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	majorly.wiki at googlemail	Nov 7, 2008, 8:02 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	bryan.tongminh at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 8:07 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	rarohde at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 8:24 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	gmaxwell at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 8:45 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	guillom.pom at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 9:22 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	bryan.tongminh at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 9:34 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	mgodwin at wikimedia	Nov 7, 2008, 9:43 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	fordmadoxfraud at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 9:55 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	jwales at wikia-inc	Nov 7, 2008, 11:04 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	majorly.wiki at googlemail	Nov 7, 2008, 11:10 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	jwales at wikia-inc	Nov 7, 2008, 11:18 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	gmaxwell at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 11:24 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	majorly.wiki at googlemail	Nov 7, 2008, 11:28 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	shimgray at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 11:37 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	gmaxwell at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 11:42 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	erik at wikimedia	Nov 7, 2008, 11:47 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	gmaxwell at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 11:49 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	gerard.meijssen at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 11:59 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	brion at wikimedia	Nov 7, 2008, 12:30 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	tim at tim-landscheidt	Nov 7, 2008, 1:40 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	brion at wikimedia	Nov 7, 2008, 2:08 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	pjacobi.de at googlemail	Nov 8, 2008, 11:59 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	brion at wikimedia	Nov 7, 2008, 12:32 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	cbrown1023.ml at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 12:55 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	nawrich at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 1:03 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	innocentkiller at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 1:40 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	dgerard at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 1:53 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	dgerard at gmail	Nov 7, 2008, 1:54 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	Anthere9 at yahoo	Nov 8, 2008, 12:31 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	saintonge at telus	Nov 8, 2008, 12:38 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	Platonides at gmail	Nov 9, 2008, 11:09 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	bdamokos at gmail	Nov 9, 2008, 11:14 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	rarohde at gmail	Nov 9, 2008, 11:25 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	walter at wikipedia	Nov 9, 2008, 11:54 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	gmaxwell at gmail	Nov 9, 2008, 12:54 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	email at mikepeel	Nov 9, 2008, 2:08 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	gmaxwell at gmail	Nov 9, 2008, 3:04 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	Anthere9 at yahoo	Nov 10, 2008, 12:44 AM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	eflebeth at googlemail	Nov 10, 2008, 1:59 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	gerard.meijssen at gmail	Nov 10, 2008, 2:10 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	gerard.meijssen at gmail	Nov 10, 2008, 2:14 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	gerard.meijssen at gmail	Nov 10, 2008, 2:24 PM
Re: Donation banner and strongly negative reactions	Anthere9 at yahoo	Nov 11, 2008, 1:43 AM

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