Khadaji
November 28, 2010, 10:46am
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RickJay:
I guess the other thing I don’t like about it, apart from Wales’s smarmy face, is the deceitfully desperate nature of the banner: “Please Read - A Personal Appeal.” It sounds like someone’s dying.
Or more precisely it gives the viewer the impression Wikipedia is dying and that Wales is pretty much down to his last blue Oxford shirt and that unless you donate immediately Wikipedia’s doomed. But if you read the “Appeal,” you’ll note there’s not actually any reference to a desperate situation.
But in fact the company’s finances aren’t at all desperate. Wikimedia Foundation made money - quite a lot of money - in the last fiscal year. Of course it’s all donations, but if they get just as much as they did in FY 2009-2010 they’ll be up a lot of money once again. If they were to get way more… well, I guess the Foundation wants to do other stuff besides Wikipedia. But if I want to just support and use Wikipedia and Wiktionary, that’s not an option.
I try not to do too many “me too” posts, but this said it pretty well. I’m annoyed enough to make a point of not donating.
Ostrya
November 28, 2010, 11:38am
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Airman_Doors_USAF:
You don’t listen to public radio, do you? This is a million times better than that which it emulates, the now 3-times-a-year pledge drives that cut 20 minutes of every news hour out entirely and seamlessly integrate into the broadcast so you can never turn them off before they start begging like they’re down to their last dollar. And when do you turn it back on to duck the unwanted solicitation and cajoling? God only knows. So for 2 weeks I realistically can’t listen to the news to and from work, and that is a tragedy, far more so than making Jimbo Wales’ image go away by simply closing the ad box.
See the little X in the corner? Click it and it all goes away. And thank God it’s that easy.
This is my opinion. It’s a free encyclopedia, for crying out loud. What a bunch of cry babies. You can either click the X or scroll down enough to read the article and the face goes away. The service is provided for free, if you don’t like it don’t use it. But quit yer bitching.
Khadaji
November 28, 2010, 12:51pm
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This is my opinion. It’s a free encyclopedia, for crying out loud. What a bunch of cry babies. You can either click the X or scroll down enough to read the article and the face goes away. The service is provided for free, if you don’t like it don’t use it. But quit yer bitching.
Physician, heal thyself.
If you don’t like threads where people bitch, click the X or don’t read them. But quit yer bitching. See how that works?
This could get pretty recursive. You could now tell *me *to not read posts about people bitching *about *bitching. And then I could tell *you *…
Ostrya
November 28, 2010, 2:16pm
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Khadaji:
Physician, heal thyself.
If you don’t like threads where people bitch, click the X or don’t read them. But quit yer bitching. See how that works?
This could get pretty recursive. You could now tell *me *to not read posts about people bitching *about *bitching. And then I could tell *you *…
I gave my opinion like you did yours. If you don’t like to read what I have to say, use the ignore feature.
Khadaji
November 28, 2010, 2:31pm
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I’m getting a picture of Kartika now. 700% hotter than Jimbo.
Ostrya
November 30, 2010, 7:52am
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How about a link, you lard ass pieces of shit!
Ostrya
November 30, 2010, 9:26am
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What no link? You lazy stinking piles of garbage! I guess I will have to google it myself then, you flea infested assholes.
mhendo:
According to this story , while the sight of Wales’ face might be annoying some people (like the OP and me), it has actually been more successful at soliciting donations than other appeals on the Wikipedia site.
Good! They’ve found that they can get more than enough money from people who like seeing his ugly mug to make up for the money they won’t be getting from people like me who can’t stand seeing his face every time they click over to Wikipedia. So I don’t need to give anything to them this year.
yeah, a great guy to run over with your car.
Nice job everybody… Victoria is even worse.
I *told *you this could get recursive.