Give us back an ad-free LiveJournal.com experience

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Title
Give users back an ad-free LiveJournal.com experience

Short, concise description of the idea
Go back to the original promises of no-ads on LiveJournal.com

Stay advertisement free

Full description of the idea

Back in the day, Brad tried ads and it was a bad idea because it slowed things down and annoyed users. ( link) When 6a bought LiveJournal, I

Comments

[soph]

I can see where you're going with this, and I sympathise with the reason you're suggesting it (I hate ads on LJ too, and the way things turned out), but segregating users in the way you describe is going to be counterproductive.

For one thing, Plus users will just switch back to Basic in order to not be segregated; having something like that in the URL isn't exactly something most people would want. This will result in *less* revenue for 6A, not more.

None of this also helps with the questions of what happens if you, a Paid user, looks at the journal of a free user - or even a paid user - who has nonetheless selected to use sponsored themes or mood icons; it's all entirely on the free/paid side of the split then. What happens? In fact, what do they *themselves* see as their layout/mood theme?

Like I said, I sympathise with your overall goal, but I don't think this sort of thing would work.

[licon]

Just use Filterset G in conjunction with Adblock and you won't have a problem with seeing ads on other people's journals. (I don't think it would block sponsored mood icons.)

[grapple9]

how many ads do you see with your perm account

[pinterface]

While I can relate to the sentiment, segregation is a rather wrong-headed way to go about it. And won't work anyway, because both parts would be run by the same code--if they're getting (show-ads?) wrong now, what makes you think they'll get it right then?

The way I wish ads had been implemented, would be to only show ads to logged-in users who have chosen to see ads (after all, what do I care if J. Random User decides he likes ads?); though at this point I'd be happy with only showing ads to logged-in users who have chosen to see ads or logged-out users when visiting the journal of someone who has ads turned on. Obviously, main site pages should never have ads because LiveJournal is supposed to be a classy establishment and classy establishments don't do that sort of thing.

But that's in an ideal world. In this one, well, what ads? I can't say as I come across any in my normal day-to-day LiveJournal browsing. But then, my friends page isn't known for its advertising. :)

[azurelunatic]

So something like site schemes that support ads and site schemes that don't, and ad-supported users wouldn't be able to select an ad-free site scheme, but everyone else, including logged-out users, would be free to?