User blog comment:Najevi/Cleaning up the sidebar when "fail to locate" a WikiPage widget/@comment-473563-20091223060938

{{blockquote|text=I don't fully understand your comment. I am not suggesting that registered users be served as many ads as an unregistered user and then be required to "opt-in to filter out" those extra ads. &-}}}

The advertising which a registered user sees at the main page is only the leaderboard ad and some spotlight promotions in the page footer. The default sidebar content is then: WidgetCommunity, WidgetMagCloud and WidgetAnswers.


 * 1) The Wikia spotlight ads are not so bad because they are placed in the page footer and do not push any main page content down the screen. They do obscure part of the custom Monaco skin in that footer area.
 * 2) The HOME_TOP_LEADERBOARD ad has diminished meaning since registered users are (by default) redirected to MyHome. It gratuitously pushes content down the screen at Main_Page.
 * 3) WidgetMagCloud and WidgetAnswers are already "well behaved" because they can be (i) dragged into the widget dashboard and (ii) dismissed altogether.
 * 4) WidgetCommunity is not well behaved because it (i) cannot be dragged into the dashboard and (ii) cannot be dismissed.
 * 5) * All three cooperate well with user selected widgets because they may be rearranged by the user to prioritize user prefered content toward the top of the Monaco sidebar.

I'd simply like to see (i) WidgetCommunity become as well behaved as the other two and (ii) the HOME_TOP_LEADERBOARD either removed permanently or perhaps furnish it with an "X" sprite to allow it to be dismissed so as to recover that precious screen space at the top of the Main_Page page.