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The Grand Negus wrote: And please don't say, "But it brings in revenue!" That's an argument for drug dealers and whores.
Someone's got to pay for this site. Advertising revenue is down across the board right now so anything that brings in the revenue for CP is fine by me.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: anything that brings in the revenue for CP is fine by me.
Like selling drugs? Like selling our daughters? Surely you must have some limits. Isn't "bad taste" a reasonable place to draw a line? How about "This adds nothing to the value of our articles, and in fact detracts from their readability?" Couldn't we draw the line there?
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The Grand Negus wrote: Like selling drugs? Like selling our daughters? Surely you must have some limits.
What in God's name does IntelliTxt have to do with drugs and prostitution? You are starting to lose me and I recommend taking this thread to the Soapbox 
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PaulC1972 wrote: What in God's name does IntelliTxt have to do with drugs and prostitution?
Nothing - unless your only justification for IntelliTXT is money.
It is legitimate to make money on a product that is both harmless and that contributes something meaningful. It is not legitimate to make money on things that are harmful or useless. My argument is that IntelliTXT ads in no way improve the articles here - in fact, they detract from them. The motivation for including them, therefore, must be less than honorable (like the motivation that inspires drug dealers and whores).
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The Grand Negus wrote: My argument is that IntelliTXT ads in no way improve the articles here
Why does it have to improve articles on this site? It is a paid advertisement and helps support this site and the ability for people to post and share their knowledge. How dense are you?
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PaulC1972 wrote: Why does it have to improve articles on this site?
It should at least not detract from them; yet it does. When something has to be made worse to pay for itself, there's a problem. I really hope you can see that.
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The Grand Negus wrote: yet it does
Never has detracted me, so I am not sure where you are coming from with the whole detraction issue.
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PaulC1972 wrote: Never has detracted me, so I am not sure where you are coming from with the whole detraction issue.
Then either you haven't seen it in action, or... I don't know. When I'm reading, I expect emphasis - highlighting - to be germane to the text. For example:
Is THIS sentence easier to read?
Or
Is this sentence easier to read?
Obviously, the second, because the word in italics should be in italics - it tells you the author's intent. The changes in font and style in the first case tell you nothing, and make the sentence harder to scan.
I'm amazed I have to explain this.
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The Grand Negus wrote: I'm amazed I have to explain this.
Reason being is I have Intellitxt turned off, for the umpteenth time
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Ok tell you what mate, write a letter to Mr William Gates and ask him why he is such a drug dealer because of all the money he has.
Brad
Australian
By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
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Because a slightly messed up article is better than no article.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Because a slightly messed up article is better than no article.
And children fed plenty with drug money are better than children fed less without. And a family car bought with money from a daughter's forced prostitution is better than no car at all. I know these examples are extreme, but you're arguing that the end justifies the means and I want you to see where that kind of reasoning leads.
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Okay - fair enough. Why not negociate with CP in return for banner advertising to ask them to remove the IntelliTXT advertising but add banner adverts for your products into the mix.
Alternatively - you can help out in a smaller way by going here[^] and scrolling to the bottom of the page and purchasing "Code Project Supporter Status". It is unlikely to remove the IntelliTXT ads on its own, but if you along with enough other concerned people do that then CP won't need to use IntelliTXT advertising.
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You're still arguing ecconomics, Mr Mackay. This is a matter of principle. No one should ever sell his daughter into prostitution, and no one should ever deface an article with spurious advertisments right in the text.
And don't expect me to "support" an organization that would immediately return to the same tactics under similar circumstances. "Marry this whore," you say, "and she won't have to walk the streets any more." No thanks - because if I lose my job, I'll have to walk the streets myself to find her!
IntelliTXT ads, I am arguing, are morally wrong. You cannot serve God and mammon.
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The Grand Negus wrote: no one should ever deface an article with spurious advertisments right in the text.
 This argument and the prostitution/drugs analogy is getting old.
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The Grand Negus wrote: IntelliTXT ads, I am arguing, are morally wrong.
What is so wrong about IntelliTxt? You still haven't given solid reason why it chaps you so much. You have the option, the power, the ability, to turn it off 
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The Grand Negus wrote: You don't have to answer the phone when a crank or a salesman calls
That's why my answering machine is used to screen call 
I'd like to help but I don't feel like Googling it for you.
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The Grand Negus wrote: And the ability to turn it off doesn't make it right. You don't have to answer the phone when a crank or a salesman calls, but why should you be put out by someone else's bad manners?
Your analogising skills suck
System.IO.Path.IsPathRooted() does not behave as I would expect
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Josh Gray wrote: Your analogising skills suck
Yeah, his comparing IntelliTxt to drugs and prostitution was weak
I'd like to help but I don't feel like Googling it for you.
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The Grand Negus wrote: I suggest that the IntelliTXT advertising program be dropped.
Please enlighten us (or at least me) by what you mean with "the IntelliTXT advertising". I see a banner on the top, one on the side, and Adsense on the bottom right of articles. That's all.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Alvaro Mendez wrote: I see a banner on the top, one on the side, and Adsense on the bottom right of articles.
I am trying to figure it out what is so wrong about it and how it negatively affects articles on this site 
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Alvaro Mendez wrote: Please enlighten us (or at least me) by what you mean with "the IntelliTXT advertising".
If certain options are selected in your profile - and in the author's - "keywords" in the article will appear in a different color with a double underscore. The word "cpu", for example, might appear this way. When you mouse over the word, a balloon ad for, say, Intel CPUs will appear on top of the article, and will stay on the screen for several seconds even after you move the mouse.
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The Grand Negus wrote: "keywords" in the article will appear in a different color with a double underscore. The word "cpu", for example, might appear this way. When you mouse over the word, a balloon ad for, say, Intel CPUs will appear on top of the article, and will stay on the screen for several seconds even after you move the mouse.
Can you provide some kind of example, so I can see how bad this IntelliTxt is? Is there a particular article that has too much of it?
Also, I've noticed that in my profile, I have IntelliTxt turned off 
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The Grand Negus wrote: And please don't say, "But it brings in revenue!" That's an argument for drug dealers and whores.
Hmmm... A CP whorehouse... Like Rent-A-Coder, but without the pretense. We could even call it "Rent-A-CodeWhore"!
I would prefer that to IntelliTXT... (though, i keep IntelliTXT turned off, so it really doesn't bother me).
C'mon, Chris - whaddaya say? 
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