khafra comments on Community norm question: brief text ad signatures - Less Wrong

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Comment author: khafra 11 July 2011 12:29:06PM *  6 points [-]

I voted "not to see such ads," but I feel reasonably comfortable with the "To see the novel I'm writing, click here" signature. That gives something of value to an interested reader who likes your style; it's closer in content to links to the relevant sequence than it is to advertisements.

It's also more congruent with the LW site style--they're keeping the website free of even the minimal advertisements reddit uses; taking advantage of that lack of noise to insert your own advertisements seems churlish.

Although perhaps all my objections are motivated by my perception of asking for money as low-status.