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It's only ever OK. That's just a societal agreement. It's never good. It seems like an extremely conservative application of innocent until proven guilty. Adver
by MawNicker 10y ago
It's only ever OK. That's just a societal agreement. It's never good. It seems like an extremely conservative application of innocent until proven guilty. Advertising has been deemed necessary despite the ways it can be abused. We should likely be more critical in "serious" markets. It's insane that we let Coke/Pepsi regularly subject us all to babes in bikinis sensually consuming fizzy sugar water. That or whatever other psychologically invasive scene they've contrived. But even then, we still require that you not tell outright lies about your product. This ruling was definitely fair. If not lenient. It would be nice to see fewer marketing games it's just hard to find a good place to draw the line. Not lying is a very low bar.
- rtpg 10y agoI mean, advertising can also just be about brand awareness, or talking about a product. How many psychological tricks are ads in the sidebar of Stack Overflow? The concept of advertising isn't inherently evil. To be clear, I agree 10000% with the action taken here. I would like for us to start applying this strict standard more often.
- MawNicker 10y agoI'm talking about "playing marketing games" and not advertising in general. Then I'm talking about how hard it is to tell the two apart and the lousy compromises we've made in doing so. That being said I think brand awareness is mostly manipulative. Consumers need product awareness. It's definitely on the safer side of games though. I suspect it's fairly intrinsic/necessary. I don't want to advertise for my competitors. The sidebar on StackOverflow is great.