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I would completely support appropriate advertising on your site, if and when you asked our opinion, as I know you would. Often, I've sat through advertisements that were beneficial to me and told the advertisers what worked about their advertising campaign. I do not sit through forced advertising.
I have a friend who offered similar to support after reading Arghs! post. Their answer was to dismiss the amount he offered to pay for a subscription -yes, dismissed a paying customer who told them he would pay for content.
Thank you for taking the time to write this -as I have now signed up for your site. I subscribe to 1000's of RSS feeds but keep a few set aside for regular consumption.
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Kind regards,
Lee
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Excellent points!
Solidly though-out arguments that clearly show how Ars -or Argh!- became myopically short-sighted, (yes, short-short-sighted), in the pursuit of what truly makes a web site valuable: the readers who are willing to support excellent content.
I would completely support appropriate advertising on your site, if and when you asked our opinion, as I know you would. Often, I've sat through advertisements that were beneficial to me and told the advertisers what worked about their advertising campaign. I do not sit through forced advertising.
I have a friend who offered similar to support after reading Arghs! post. Their answer was to dismiss the amount he offered to pay for a subscription -yes, dismissed a paying customer who told them he would pay for content.
Thank you for taking the time to write this -as I have now signed up for your site. I subscribe to 1000's of RSS feeds but keep a few set aside for regular consumption.
You have earned a vaulted place in my feed reader. And, in my small self-import web world, this.is.no.small.feat. I'll be forwarding your stories much more regularly now. This is payment.
Kind regards,
Lee