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This issue has been going back and forth for a while now, and it came up on Reddit via this site: whydiggisblocked dot com
My response then:
I love this bit: "As we all know users are becoming more and more banner/ad blind and no one more so than the tech/geek crowd which is the primary audience of Digg."
So, technically, the digg traffic and web block is irrelevant. It's the TYPE of user that's the problem. i.e. higher intelligence than a slug users. People who can simply ignore ads are bad customers. Digg has nothing to do with it, it's just a nice example to use. Could have been Reddit, or maybe evil Firefox users that have peripheral vision distraction issues and like to use Flashblock and Adblock to help with that.
They should just dumb down the content some if they are concerned about it. Start pushing the stuff grandma will enjoy. Get the less tech savvy crowd to be the audience instead of generating content that people who can block and ignore ads might possibly read.
Isn't one of the most important rules of writing "Know your audience."?
My response then:
I love this bit: "As we all know users are becoming more and more banner/ad blind and no one more so than the tech/geek crowd which is the primary audience of Digg."
So, technically, the digg traffic and web block is irrelevant. It's the TYPE of user that's the problem. i.e. higher intelligence than a slug users. People who can simply ignore ads are bad customers. Digg has nothing to do with it, it's just a nice example to use. Could have been Reddit, or maybe evil Firefox users that have peripheral vision distraction issues and like to use Flashblock and Adblock to help with that.
They should just dumb down the content some if they are concerned about it. Start pushing the stuff grandma will enjoy. Get the less tech savvy crowd to be the audience instead of generating content that people who can block and ignore ads might possibly read.
Isn't one of the most important rules of writing "Know your audience."?
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http://www.bhamonline.com/areasights/vulcan.htm
I mean, this thing is known as "Moon Over Homewood". That's how I did the search to get this link. :)
Here is a more current picture:
http://thisis.durkin.org/inpictures/group/69599411@N00/photo/79951511/-vulcans-rear-aka-the-moon-over-homewood.html