[theforum] Donation Wall - last chance to comment
Seb Potter
seb at poked.org
Sat Aug 16 19:10:36 CDT 2003
>> > >Advertising is different from sponsorship. I am *very* uncomfortable
>> > >with the idea of evolt.org sponsorship. I would prefer to simply >
>> >solicit ads ala Isaac's original post on this subject -- we make a >
>> >short list of acceptable non-text advertisers for actual >
>> >image/banner/wahtever ads, and approach them.
>>
>> No image-based ads if we can help it.
Could somebody please explain to me how it is that we're discussing
companies buying advertising on evolt?
As far as I am aware, the only discussion of adverts we've ever had was
along the lines of "wouldn't it be nice to alloaw evolters members to buy
text ads on the evolters site?"
I would like to make my position really, really clear on this.
No paid-for ads on evolt, or sponsorship of evolt. Now or ever.
If companies want to donate, fine, but they don't get anything for it
whatsoever, except equal billing on the donations wall with every other
donor.
If anybody doesn't understand why I say this, you might want to remember
why evolt.org started nearly 5 years ago. There's also a huge list of
practical reasons why ads and sponsorhsip are bad things.
- seb
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