AIBU or is the 'we depend on advertising to keep the lights on' a ^little^ annoying?

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From a multi million pound enterprise? Preying on sometimes vulnerable women? So that you can subject them to more advertising?

You're not a charity. We are not here in sympathy with you. We are here because you provide a forum you can make money from.

How can you compare 'keeping the lights on' in a multi-million pound business to a vulnerable poster who actually can't afford electricity?

Have you completely lost your soul? Because you'll lose all your minions soon if you don't change your tune.

Well John Lewis is going mental on me today. As a result, I will probably never set foot in their store.
That and a freaky looking doll, with the token boy holding the black doll. Surrounded by pink.

I suspect I am not the target market for most of these ads.

Who the hell are they employing there in MN towers? Eegits?

I would be quite happy to leave the ads if the site still worked with them. But it doesn't, so either I stop using mumsnet altogether or I continue as a free-rider (whatever that means)

I agree that Mumsnet v Reddit is not a great comparison due to differences in scale. I also remember Reddit as it went through each of its own scaling problems - it started out much like this one did.

Reddit became popular on the back of a vast number of hate filled racist anti-semitic men. Mumsnet has a different role to play.

No it didn't become popular on the back of the Alt-right. The Alt-right tried to colonise it because it was popular - its an important difference because its a good example of the problems sites face as they grow and become more popular. Trolls/others are attracted to growing, popular sites, especially where they have a focus on a target group (eg women).

I am happy with the ads. I dont expect things for free because I am not entitled.

Maybe the ads are not consuming half your month data allowance on a mobile device? Maybe its not rendered unusable by breaking the accessibility software you use? Maybe you don't get the ridiculous delays some people are? Don't assume that your experience matches that of other users.

You can implement ads without making a site unusable or spending billions. Its down to architecture, design and code management.

Ads are also not the only revenue stream for this type of site, there are many others and I'd assume a combined model is in place.

Who the hell are they employing there in MN towers? Eegits?

Er, yes.

Do you remember the disruption a few weeks back when watched threads and "threads I'm on" when belly up ?

No rollback plan, no A/B testing ... OK if you're running a noddy website with a few hundred users (actually it's not OK, but ...) a little less impressive when you are serving tens of thousands of users.

Ads are also not the only revenue stream for this type of site, there are many others and I'd assume a combined model is in place.

Ideally some form of targeted advertising, possibly based on users posting profiles ?

If you fed MN through a decent AI engine, you could probably create quite a few interesting data sets, as well as link posters with external identities.