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Give users back an ad-free LiveJournal.com experience
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Go back to the original promises of no-ads on LiveJournal.com
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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
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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.
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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. :)
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