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@Spain: What's Eternal September in this context? I only know it with regard to Ye Olde Internete Slange.
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edited 27th Oct '10 5:48:21 PM by EternalSeptember
Having NSFW ads makes entire site NSFW, effectively a porn site. This greatly decreases potential audience and hampers site growth. Due to TV Trope's site type, censorship preferable.
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In this context I think it actually means Eternal November.
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Would be nice if we could get some educational foundations or college/universities to kick in some donations. *
@Stormtroper: The section about no alcohol or drug use means that all tropes or works involving those would get cut. See?
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...That's what I get for identifying people by their avatars.
Burst Media also doesn't allow adult content. Bravenet doesn't even list its ToS, presumably unless you apply.
edited 27th Oct '10 5:52:22 PM by Aoede
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How many Universities would want to donate to TV Tropes?.....
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^^^^ Universities wouldprobably also prefer to donate to sites that don't have two dozen different pages about titties, so we are back to square one.
edited 27th Oct '10 5:53:45 PM by EternalSeptember
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If TV Tropes were to gain university support, I imagine we'd have to look more academic, and that's just as boring.
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@Stormtroper: The section about no alcohol or drug use means that all tropes or works involving those would get cut. See? We don't have many tropes centered on alcohol or drugs. Not nearly as many as those based on sex.
The thing about works with these is a good point, though.
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Which would mean bye-bye to innocent things like Alcohol Is Poison, or, ironically, Frothy Mugs of Water.
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The real question is, how seriously are these various ad servers enforce their rules? Of course they must write it down, obligatorily, but even for Google, it took years to get us, for smaller companies, it might be even more.
edited 27th Oct '10 5:57:22 PM by EternalSeptember
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Seriously, we ought to be able to talk about alcohol and drugs as long as we aren't promoting their use. Seems like we ought to be aiming for PG-13 here, not G.
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Well, I donated, again.
If we can find significant donor, such as institution of education, that excellent. Anyone have any specific likely ideas for such source?
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That's not our decision, though.
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* doesn't explicitly say "no drugs, alcohol, or sex", but it does forbid "obscene" content. What does "obscene" mean, specifically?
edited 27th Oct '10 6:00:33 PM by Aoede
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That they won't tell us, but they'll know it when they see it.
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Going by the Supreme Court's definition, very little is obscene.
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As long as we have to say f*ck instead of fuck, we are good. But we should avoid actually deleting our content at all costs.
I doubt a service that describes content merely with "obscene" or any one word will be using it in a broad sense.
edited 27th Oct '10 6:05:08 PM by Stormtroper
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Really must stay out of discussions, but I'll say, before going dark, that we have avenues to attempt before going on charity. Anyway, donations drives have a finite period of effectiveness, and we need a long term solution.
I've got applications in to some other ad networks. They all say they'll respond within 72 hours.
We have been "leveling up" at Google for 5 years, so there is little chance another network will offer us financial terms as good as we've had with them, at least to start. More details needed though, and I don't see any good ad networks that have significantly different terms of service from theirs. Like I say, more data needed.
Assuming that the best bet will be to toe the Google line, I need to be focusing on identifying what we we'll need to do that thing.
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Amazon ads are directing me to a page everytime is simply roll over them! It's getting annoying.
edited 27th Oct '10 6:06:58 PM by Marioguy128
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Not happening to me, Marioguy. What browser you using?
edited 27th Oct '10 6:07:42 PM by Aoede
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edited 27th Oct '10 5:46:42 PM by Marioguy128
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