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I endorse the movement that ads are doing more harm than good because of their overabundance, though if users don't pay attention to seven ads that don't "emoti
by iamdave 17y ago
I endorse the movement that ads are doing more harm than good because of their overabundance, though if users don't pay attention to seven ads that don't "emotionally engage" them, why are they going to pay attention to one ad that doesn't "emotionally engage" them?
- kgermino 17y agoI think he's saying there is so much clutter with ads that users just ignore them completely. Imagine if there was one ad at the top of HN's main stories page: it would still have to be engaging to be effective but even if it is not engaging you would still notice it and be more likely to remember what it was for.
- blahedo 17y ago...except for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness>banner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness>banner blindness</a>, anyway.
- Luyt 17y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness
- robryan 17y agoEasy to combat this though, a HN ad would just be a sponsored thread, although people can eventually ignore this given the time that HN has ran ad free, if there really was a need for an ad they could be really picky about only advertising things that the community would be interested in.
- comex 17y agoThis is basically what Reddit does.
- AlexBlom 17y ago+1 to kgermino . The difference is I will notice the ads now instead of train myself to not see them.