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Adverts on the childcare threads

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Natt · 05/05/2004 12:15

Does anyone else find these disconcerting? Do they have to be there? Makes the talk seems a bit "sponsored".

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Rebi · 05/05/2004 12:25

But surely it does generate necessary income for the wonderful Mumsnet?

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Natt · 05/05/2004 12:26

But couldn't the adverts go somewhere else like all the other adverts?

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SoupDragon · 05/05/2004 12:27

What ads?

katierocket · 05/05/2004 12:28

not sure what you're referring to natt but there shouldn't be any 'ads' in the discussion bits. carrie et al normally pick up on them and put a stop to it.

popsycal · 05/05/2004 12:30

i saw that too and found the same
look at a thread in the going back to work topic area - the ad is written at the top of the thread

katierocket · 05/05/2004 12:31

oh, see what you mean. but that's clearly an advert so I'd just ignore it if not interested. I thought you meant ads that people had posted as messages.

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Natt · 05/05/2004 12:33

Not a big gripe - it's just a bit odd where it is - not so bad in this section but what if you had product ones in the products threads?

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Justine (mumsnet) · 05/05/2004 13:39

Hi Natt,
Have to be honest and confess we would be delighted if some company popped up and said they'd like to sponsor talk (with a few Nestle-type exceptions) - it would ease the financial pressure round here considerably! I can see what you're getting at about conflict of interest but even if you had, say, Maclaren sponsoring the products section - would that really be so bad? It wouldn't stop mumsnetters saying, for example, that the shopping basket on the daytripper is a waste of space, would it? Regarding the particular ad for the nanny agency on the childcare/ going back to work boards - it seemed a sensible place for it to go... after all, people looking for childcare would be likely to be on these boards. It is clearly labelled an advertisment - does it seem otherwise? Of course in an ideal world we would have no banners/ buttons/ ads or any other kind of sponsor. A kind benefactor would have left us trust money in perpetuity and mumsnet could operate untainted by commercial presence. Would be nice wouldn't it? Maybe one day

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Natt · 05/05/2004 14:31

Sorry, wasn't trying to be especially controversial. I was just a bit surprised to see it - will bung mumsnet some cash if win lottery

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