LWN advertising update II
LWN advertising update II
Posted Sep 13, 2007 0:01 UTC (Thu) by ncm (guest, #165)Parent article: LWN advertising update II
The fundamental problem is that advertising is not well-matched to LWN, and never will be, in any form.
Maybe now you'll be willing to try, instead, hosting a mini-economy that trades in "LWN subscription weeks". Readers would contribute time from their own subscriptions to authors of particularly useful comments, and editors might promote particularly well-scoring comments to articles, or (anyway) to a page collecting "best comments". People with excess earned "weeks" could cash them in for coveted LWN tchotckes (obtainable no other way), or for raffle tickets offering chances to win more-expensive weekly and annual prizes.
Imagine the cachet of riding around a conference on your LWN-monogrammed Segway while talking on your LWN-monogrammed New 1973 phone, sipping from your LWN-monogrammed coffee cup, and wearing your "Jon's ottoman" t-shirt.
Posted Sep 13, 2007 0:13 UTC (Thu)
by jordanb (guest, #45668)
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"Cachet" wouldn't be the word I would use..
Posted Sep 13, 2007 0:41 UTC (Thu)
by ncm (guest, #165)
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Posted Sep 13, 2007 0:38 UTC (Thu)
by ncm (guest, #165)
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Posted Sep 13, 2007 2:29 UTC (Thu)
by lysse (guest, #3190)
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Please, no scored comments! That way shark-leaping lies.
Posted Sep 13, 2007 2:53 UTC (Thu)
by ncm (guest, #165)
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Posted Sep 13, 2007 9:58 UTC (Thu)
by man_ls (guest, #15091)
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Posted Sep 13, 2007 21:21 UTC (Thu)
by ncm (guest, #165)
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> Imagine the cachet of riding around a conference on your LWN-monogrammed LWN advertising update II
> Segway while talking on your LWN-monogrammed New 1973 phone, sipping from
> your LWN-monogrammed coffee cup, and wearing your "Jon's ottoman" t-shirt.
Sorry, "nerdihood" isn't a word (yet).LWN advertising update II
Sorry, that's "Neo 1973".LWN advertising update II
> Readers would contribute time from their own subscriptions to authors of particularly useful comments, and editors might promote particularly well-scoring comments to articles, or (anyway) to a page collecting "best comments".LWN advertising update II
The number of weeks donated to the author need not be visible to readers.LWN advertising update II
People are not stupid; it is too easy to make people into comment-whores.
LWN advertising update II
When expressing approval of a comment costs real money, people will express it more judiciously than on sites where it costs nothing.LWN advertising update II