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Posted Apr 30, 2021 13:31 UTC (Fri) by sumanah (guest, #59891)
In reply to: TAB by corbet
Parent article: An update on the UMN affair

I appreciate that! I 100% believe and assumed that you were not trying to hide anything -- and I understand why you originally didn't think to do so. Best wishes and thanks as always for your skilled and informed analysis!

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Posted Apr 30, 2021 22:28 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (3 responses)

And I understand why this disclosure is important, but imho it really grates when it's pushed in your face every article - things like "so and so sponsored our trip to conference X".

I'd be much happier with a page, linked to from the home page, that listed all staff memberships, sponsorship deals, etc etc, but then people will moan that it's not in their face and they didn't know where to look! ...

You can't win, whatever you do.

Cheers.
Wol

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Posted Apr 30, 2021 22:44 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

> pushed in your face every article - things like "so and so sponsored our trip to conference X".

A sentence at the end of the article isn't "in your face" IMO, but experiences may vary…

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Posted May 1, 2021 11:13 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

No it doesn't seem much, but when I'm reading a bunch of articles and it's at the bottom of every one, it gets to me a bit. Other people might not even notice it's there ...

Cheers,
Wol

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Posted May 6, 2021 11:20 UTC (Thu) by kpfleming (subscriber, #23250) [Link]

This is definitely true when a Weekly Edition contains a series of articles covering talks from the same conference; it's not unusual to see that same attribution repeated a half-dozen times in that situation. Since the articles are independent posts that are just presented in aggregate for those who choose to read that way, each article really does need to have the attribution statement.