On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:12 AM, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. <[email protected]>wrote:
> Silicon Shaman <[email protected]> wrote: > > [...] > > Short version: AFAICT from feedback to LJ news posts, much > of the *J audience likes feeling like customers and dislikes > feeling like they're the _product_, whether this is a gut > level reaction or fear that if big companies are the customers > then the site is no longer serving its users first ("two > masters" and all that), or both. While your proposal would > not be selling individual "eyeballs" to corporate customers, > it would still a dangerous, or at least suspicion-inducing, step > thataways in the eyes of a significant portion of the user > population. IAWTC. Some more clearly pseudo-corporate spaces can get away with this, but it's unpleasant even there, and entirely apart from any ethical concerns, it would cause huge problems for Dreamwidth's image (that is, "Hey! We're not evil!") - because any kind of compromise with corporations *does* look evil, in a lot of people's eyes.
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