Timeline for More network sites to see advertising test [updated with phase 3]
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| Nov 23, 2024 at 22:55 | comment | added | Starship | @ErinAnne I would not want people to get money for posting on SE. They could never pay enough to be relevant anyway but it would encourages countless people to make bad posts which look good/get lots of views to get money. | |
| Nov 22, 2024 at 20:19 | comment | added | Erin Anne | like, I don't think it'll even happen, but the combination of "technically we could offer you a little for your answer if you use an approved payment provider like Paypal or Ko-fi; please plow it back into SE's costs instead" and "if you give us a link to an approved payment provider, we'll display it next to your Qs and As and maybe someone will reward you" (gross) at least seems logically consistent | |
| Nov 22, 2024 at 20:15 | comment | added | Erin Anne | @rogerdpack weirdly I'm reminded that jury pay in Texas (where I am) was incredibly bad (I think $8/day and recently bumped to something less ridiculous but still bad). It might pay for the cost of parking near the downtown Houston courthouse if you park wisely. Actually making the meager payments cost enough that they encouraged you to donate the pay instead, which they could do in lumps. When I served on a civil suit jury for two weeks we all got a substantial bonus from both parties involved (ca. hundreds of $) by a mechanism I don't really understand. I could see SE operate like this. | |
| Nov 22, 2024 at 19:59 | comment | added | Erin Anne | @rogerdpack so—I recognize that you're not serious. but. I do think it'd at least be interesting if SE Inc tried to be fair and used their available metrics (I'm sure I've seen some you've reached X people number on my profile) to reward people for their question / answer "utility" by either showing them fewer ads or, for some (likely earlier / Euler-prolific users) making the offer to pay them. Given operating costs I think even the "best" users could only be offered a pittance. But it'd be interesting. and probably have some bad incentives alongside it. | |
| Nov 22, 2024 at 16:18 | comment | added | rogerdpack | Or the site pay us for posting answers? :) | |
| Nov 21, 2024 at 18:14 | comment | added | Lyndon Gingerich | @Joachim Since the purpose of advertising is to extract money from users, viewing ads functions as a means of paying. If we must pay somehow to keep the site online, then we may as well have payment options for people who hate ads. | |
| Nov 11, 2024 at 8:53 | comment | added | Erin Anne | yeah, they should probably fix the whole not appreciating the community thing, but I don't see that happening anytime soon either. | |
| Nov 11, 2024 at 8:29 | comment | added | Joachim | Thanks, @ErinAnne. Yes, it would be a nice solution, I just fear that a lot of users - who already feel underappreciated - will leave. | |
| Nov 10, 2024 at 19:53 | comment | added | Erin Anne | @Joachim there are hosting costs that need to be covered at a minimum. I hate ads, so I'd rather pay to keep the site online than have them serve ads and inevitably complain about people blocking ads as though malvertising campaigns had never happened and people who block ads aren't acting out of self-interest. Note I am not suggesting a paywall, just an option to pay | |
| Nov 10, 2024 at 14:15 | comment | added | user152859 | There is already a pending feature request for that, since 2009. | |
| Nov 10, 2024 at 12:50 | comment | added | Starship | If you’re willing to pay to avoid ads, just use a free adblocker | |
| Nov 10, 2024 at 10:03 | comment | added | Joachim | Why would you want to do that? I'm honestly curious. The idea of paying for a site for which one creates, improves, and manages content that is free and public seems to be the opposite of what the network (and any network like this) should want, and will likely quickly push away even more users, slowing down activity even more across the platform, and thereby attracting even less visitors. | |
| Nov 10, 2024 at 8:02 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | That's an interesting idea. I guess it would be possible to have an bidding not that bids for the ad space whenever you make a visit and then displays exactly nothing. That way one would pay a fair price (exactly the same any other advertiser would pay) and per use. Content contributors with reduced ads would need to buy less. | |
| Nov 8, 2024 at 22:17 | history | answered | Erin Anne | CC BY-SA 4.0 |