The more I think about ads on LJ, the more I hate them.

Mar 16, 2006 19:10

The ads-as-a-feature announcing post in lj_biz keeps making icks in my brain. The biggest icks come from this:

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cmorley March 17 2006, 06:19:24 UTC
I've been seriously considering switching to my own site. I've got WordPress set up there, I'll be doing most of my comic related material there, and I really don't have much else in my "personal life" to post on LJ anymore.

It's just... I'd miss you guys... sniff! :(

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foxfirefey March 17 2006, 06:24:02 UTC
Well, there's been a lot of networking technology developed since when I first was on LJ that makes going off solo a lot more possible than it originally was, while still keeping your network'o'friends.

There's RSS feeds now--if you did it on your own site, I could subscribe directly to it. There's OpenID--if you did it on your own site, you could probably find a way to use OpenID to let LJ people post and keep their verified LJ identities. All I would need to do is figure out a way to do friends-only via OpenID and I'd be set. Maybe a few other things, but I'm a technical person. I'm pretty sure I could figure out a way to make the transition between the operations of my site and the operations of LJ pretty seamless.

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mr_z March 17 2006, 15:18:19 UTC
RSS feeds suck, though. I can't just reply at LJ and have it get back to you. I'd have to click on a link in your post to reply at your website. That sucks.

I think it sucks in general that so many kids these days are so numb to ads. I'm hoping the only ad-supported LJs I miss out on (since I won't be hanging around them I suspect) are angsty, whiny LJ-drama-inducing teenagers that I have no intention of hanging around anyway. :-) You know, they kind of folk you usually find on MySpace. :-)

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axessdenyd March 18 2006, 00:14:02 UTC
I like ads if they're tasteful or amusing.

They're the only way I can find out about cool things!

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foxfirefey March 18 2006, 00:18:56 UTC
Some places give useful ads, and when I'm searching for products on Google I do click on the sponsored ads a bunch.

But the websites that give useful ads are generally much more...focused in demographics that I fit into? LJ is very broad. For instance, I like writing. You know the people who pay for writing advertisements? Scammers and vanity presses. Irony is looking at a writer's advocacy page warning about scams that's funded by ads, and the ads are all for the people their warning about.

I'm pretty sure I told you this before, but there's a way I would accept ads on LJ, and that's by opt-in. I want the people who want that level to opt in to seeing ads all over the site, rather than opt-in to having ads on their page. The current proposal does not jive with me.

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axessdenyd March 18 2006, 00:25:33 UTC
Yeah, that would make a bit more sense.

But I can still see why they would do it that way.

Remember the "freerider problem" in econ?

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foxfirefey March 18 2006, 02:12:46 UTC
I can see why they'd want to do it the current way, but that doesn't mean I agree with it. And I think I have the right--I have two paid accounts and a few paid communities ( ... )

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