LWN advertising update

LWN advertising update

Posted Sep 3, 2007 23:46 UTC (Mon) by jimmybgood (guest, #26142)
Parent article: LWN advertising update

It's pretty hard for me to believe that the LWN staff posted this article with the expectation that the readers should take it seriously. OTOH, they're a rather grim and humorless lot and I wouldn't expect them to post a complete put-on, on September 3, anyway. So, I don't know. Is this a joke or not?

Assuming they are serious, they're being way to easy on their readers. If their goal is to annoy the hell out of us, why identify the ads with double underlines and green font color? After all, when you lay out a mine field, do you put up double green flags at each mine? Of course not! And why bother having the option to click. I mean, the article has already been obscured and can't be read. If I try moving it out of the way, it won't go away at all. Why not just take us straight to the ad?

Another big mistake is going with Vibrant Media, which doesn't place adult ads. I'll pay a nickel a click for the following words and phrases:

Megabyte
Back-end server
Binding
Hard link
Soft link
LaTeX
Warm boot

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