Remove third-party advertising & implement community ads

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Title
Remove third-party advertising & implement community ads

Short, concise description of the idea
Remove third-party advertising networks from ads run on the site, and in their place implement advertising bought by LiveJournal members.

Full description of the ideaThere was recently quite a bit of brouhaha over LiveJournal serving ads that may

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Community ads would be awesome, and I'm all for phasing out 3rd party ads if it's in any way feasible.

[charliemc]

Agreed.

+1

[girlfight]

Ooooh this idea makes me so warm and fuzzy. As a constantly Paid user I'd even let the site show me ads if they were community-based.

[ursamajor]

Community ads are the reason seeing ads on Ravelry actually makes me *happy*. When I found out how Ravelry was going to do ads back in ... what was it, late 2007? My reaction was: "This is what LiveJournal ads should have been." All the talk back when LJ ads were first being announced, about how we were going to revolutionize ads, ad implementation, do it different, make it effective yet not annoying ... fizzled and died, and now LJ ads are absolutely no better than any other typical ad-supported website, and in some cases worse.

I'd support this suggestion.

[elyssa]

The concept makes me happy. The odds of it happening make me even more sad than ever about the current downhill slide of LiveJournal's current ad system--"you give us money we run whatever you like we'll even change the rules for you ok boss" is a terrible way to handle a system most users don't want and find horribly intrusive.

[lady_angelina]

As someone who is generally vehemently opposed to advertising, I really like this idea. If done right, it would foster more of the community spirit that is one of the things I've always loved about LiveJournal.

Of course, like with all good ideas, there would have to be enough people actually willing and able to participate in this for it to work. That problem, right there, is one of the main reasons (I think, so don't quote me) that "sell-outs" happen all too often. =(