David Hilton wrote: > > I personally dislike ads, but I think the main cause is because of > poor targeting or there being too much distraction on a page. > Google's ads generally don't bother me. Am I alone in this? > > In general, I'm not sure I agree with the previous postings on the > ads. I'm interested in hearing some stats. How much revenue has been > generated? Also, yes, they are not well targeted. Yes, it is flash. > Out of curiosity, if it were less obtrusive and better targeted, would > you still have the same objections, or does the opposition stem from a > moral opposition to ads in general? > > I can see that ads bring in valuable revenue to a site or > organization. I am familiar with the startup behind the ads, and I > suspect that they would be pretty open to suggestions, especially > considering that this is their beta. > > I think we should discuss this a little more, see how open to > suggestions EnticeLabs is, and then take a vote. > > David I don't like ads that much either, but I think there's a deeper issue here. The LDS Church, and by extension BYU, is a non-profit entity. I know several departments that have to be really careful to not foul up this tax status. For example, I know of at least one college on campus that kept having to lower their labs' per-page printing rates, because they kept bringing in more than was being spent on printers, paper, toner, and corresponding service contracts. Then of course they got yelled at by the other departments on campus because they *already* had lower per-page rates than pretty much anywhere else on campus, and it made everyone else look bad. Go figure.
The point is that, like it or not, there's likely a financial/legal implication to having ads of any kind on a site hosted and sponsored by BYU. Has anyone checked with the CS Department (as our club's sponsor) to see what they think? If it weren't associated with BYU, then that would be a completely different story. -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator BYU Supercomputing Lab -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
