Could this be made opt-in, or at least give communities the option to opt-out? I notice that, currently, the per-site meta announcements for Anime & Manga, English Language & Usage, Literature, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Geographic Information Systems, Physics, Space Exploration, andChess, Constructed Languages, Puzzling, Role-Playing Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Worldbuilding, and Bicycles are currently downvoted.
I truly do think that some communities would opt-in, or not opt-out. Out of the 1650 communities herementioned in this post, yes 1016 of thetheir per-site meta announcements are negatively scored, but 734 aren't. 429 of them have a score of 0, including 2 with an upvote, 2 with 2 upvotes. 38 of them have scoresscore above 0. Even of the 9 negatively scored ones, a full 6and 2 of them, most have a score of 2. Of the downvoted16 "First Phase" sites, 9 announcements are negatively scored, although they all have an upvote, and 45 have at least 2 upvotes, and 2 even have 3 upvotes! Of the 34 "Second Phase" sites announcements, only 7 are downvoted, and of those 2 have an upvote. While obviously not every community would opt-in/not opt-out, I think some definitely would choose to keep the advertising test.
I understand this might be an unrealistic request, but I really do think this would be much better if it was opt-in/opt-out.