Happy Happy Click Click

posted by Scott Hsu-Storaker at 7:21 AM

I'm working on some longer articles, even researching them in fact, so I have no new lengthy blog for you all today. Instead I just wanted to take a moment to thank the few of you who have clicked on those crazy google ads over there in the sidebar. We've actually managed to accrue a few dollars off of it and I would love to be able to have this site pay for itself and have the coop achieve a tiny level of self-sufficiency one day. Maybe if we even get enough money, we could start up some special benefits for active contributors. I think I know who the people are who have done the clickin' and its great that such a small task can have such a large return.

Now, I'm not saying everyone should just jump in and start clicking all the over the place. We in the coop have debated whether trying to make money off of ads is an appropriate endeavor for us at all and we have been watching progress on this front to see if members of our growing community see it as worthwhile or not. I've always taken the "people will vote with their feet" approach and said that if people don't like the ads then nobody will click on them and that will tell us what we need to know. So far, I think it is just a small circle of friends that, because they know we could make a little off of the ads, have participated in the clicking. So the jury is still out on whether we want to continue with it or not.

By the terms of the Google contract, I am not permitted to ask you to click on ads just so that we can make some money. So, I'm not going to ask you. Even if I did ask you all, there would be a limit to how often you could click before Google stopped allowing clicks from your IP. But, I do want to thank the people who have and ask everyone that if you have feedback to let me know what you think, even if you think we should just get rid of them.

Stay free.

~shs~