Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

On 04/25/2011 05:07 AM, drew wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 12:27 +0200, Christian Lohmaier wrote:

> > It is the impression that the user will
> > get. Clicking a donate button is a voluntary choice by the user
> > clicking that button. Being presented/forced to view an advertisement
> > is not an optional thing.
>
> Was not the user forced to view the donate advertisement, that is what
> it is after all, an advertisement.
>
> The user of a display ad is not forced to click on it.

The biggest problem I have with ads on a forum is the impression it 
makes on a new user.  If I go to a forum for the first time and I see no 
ads, a lot of users logged in, and a lot of recent activity, I know I 
have something good.  This is the goal we should have for a new 
LibreOffice forum.  A site with ads detracts from the 
community-supported, community-driven impression that I would like to 
see LibO make.  A donate button does not detract from this impression, IMHO.

From a no-ads standpoint, http://www.oooforum.org and 
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ set good examples -- they 
only have the logo of the forum sponsor, which is fine.  The problem 
with those is that they use the name ooo, and one is sponsored by 
Oracle, so I think using them is not in the long-term interest of LibO.

Since we are starting from scratch with a forum, I think we should set 
it up properly, without ads.  If that means waiting a couple of months 
to find a sponsor willing to do it, it's worth the wait, in my view.  I 
like the domain libreofficeforum.org, so hopefully the owner will be 
willing to give it up.

     ----Jon

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