If a sponsor pays for advertising, Does that make them a better sponsor?

[Greenguy]

You're basically asking the board owners for free advertising.

You think FOX is giving away free ads to smaller companies today? Are they censoring Mom & Pop's Dry Cleaning by not running their ad for free?

Your use of the word "censorship" in this thread is

[[BV]]

Originally Posted by Greenie

You're basically asking the board owners for free advertising.

You think FOX is giving away free ads to smaller companies today? Are they censoring Mom & Pop's Dry Cleaning by not running their ad for free?

Your use of the word "censorship" in this thread is

That's a perfect example of what I am talking about. I couldn't have come up with a better example myself.

FOX's viewers are so far out of the loop it's not even funny.

Check this out and you will see what I mean if you don't already: http://www.outfoxed.org/

You guys are getting all defensive and missing the whole point of this thread.

I don't want free advertising.
I never asked for it.
I just wanted to know if you thought it was fair to the readers.

thats all

[DangerDave]

GG quit being so polite , I think you have 'extended courtesy' to this thread for much longer than I would of...

Originally Posted by [BV]

I just wanted to know if you thought it was fair to the readers.

This is the/your key question!?

Which should only be answered with another question.

Why does it have to be "fair"?
The premise of the question assumes that "fair" is good, or that "fair" is what should be aimed for.

That is simply not the case, this is a business and "fairness" is a great way to make your business go bust!


Additionally, the premise of the question assumes that we "readers" are too stupid to go look for small programs on our own... and have to have them 'spoon-feed' to us in special 'sticky posts' - another false premise.

Most, if not all of us can use the many other resources of our business( that have been supplied for years for free) to track down any number of small programs.


Thirdly, my 'smaller program' gets valuable free advertising from this board and others, because of the contribution I make... no freebies for being small, just a little thank you and reward for adding to the community(another 'net fundamental)

Your 'argument' has been flawed from the beginning and holds no value..

DD

[Useless]

Do deep pockets make them better sponsors? Certainly not. Most of them started with lots of playing cash, which afforded them the path to creating even more. That's just how capitalism works.

It doesn't seem like you see many small budget start-ups becoming much more than what they started as in this business. I don't really know why that is. It's not as if the reps working for the larger sponsors seem to know what they're doing or even care. The most knowledgeable people I've spoken to are actually the owners of small programs.

I first read this thread late last night and I've been pondering how it would be feasible to allow small programs to make announcements on a main board without creating a total SPAMfest. I suppose a board could sell individual stickied threads for a fair price with no banner advertising included. Obviously, you couldn't allow free-for-all spamming. So a price and discretion would have to be attached to such an action. If I was a program owner who had the ability to write good marketing text, I'd rather have a thread than a banner any day.

[CD Smith]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I first read this thread late last night and I've been pondering how it would be feasible to allow small programs to make announcements on a main board without creating a total SPAMfest. I suppose a board could sell individual stickied threads for a fair price with no banner advertising included. Obviously, you couldn't allow free-for-all spamming. So a price and discretion would have to be attached to such an action. If I was a program owner who had the ability to write good marketing text, I'd rather have a thread than a banner any day.

Exactly. That other board has been doing this for years.

This or any other board could offer paid sticky "announcement" threads for a half day, full day, 3 days, a week, and charge accordingly, which would allow smaller programs an avenue of affordable_yet_high_profile ads on as many boards as they wished to purchase from.

Originally Posted by Jim

To be fair, Greenie is getting a little defensive

I concede there was a little defensiveness, but not without good reason.