Forum:Advertisment Disgrace

Shouldn't Wikia be using advertising to generate interest in their own sites, rather than insisting on putting advertising on every wiki, just so they can line their own pockets?! I understand they need to generate enough income to keep the project afloat, but if the goal is to create on-line communities, as Wikia implies, shouldn't they concentrate on doing that, rather than stubbornly insisting on placing offensive, badly placed and unrelated advertising on every wiki, discouraging potential contributors from making edits?! Surely, there are other methods to generate enough income to keep the wikis in existence, without being so blatantly obvious about it! --81.79.249.81 13:47, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Wikia is very large and has a lot of traffic. That's why they're taking the actions described at Forum:Site performance issues and improvements. In addition, the United States (the country in which Wikia was incorporated in) is suffering from a serious recession. Also, what are the "other methods to generate enough income" that you're talking about? Wikia can't hold fundraisers like Wikimedia. If you know a way to generate a ton of revenue without the use of ads, I'm sure Wikia would be happy to heard it. Unfortunately, you're just complaining; you haven't done anything to find a solution. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 22:31, 18 April 2009 (UTC)