> > If money is the issue, then why don't we just put targeted Amazon or > Google Ads all over the site rather than corrupting the dataset? > > I'm being facetious, but it's a serious point - moving into something > that looks like selling ARs doesn't feel like the MB way to me. More > careful consideration should definitely be given to a favoured partner > where the contribution is "multi-dimensional" (to use a bad term), but > this appears to be just a straight links-for-cash exchange given the > lack of any useful data on their pages (currently). And if it's a links > for cash exchange, the style community can't really make a decision on > the merits. Clearly if they were gonna pay MB $10,000 a month it would > be more likely to be considered than were they offering $100 - but in > neither situation would style list members be equipped to make the > commercial decision. > > So far (although admittedly early days) it seems everyone agrees there > is no non-commercial value in links to Akuma for MB; which probably > means no value to the data users of MB; so that would leave it as a > solely commercial decision for MetaBrainz, right? >
Fully agree.
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