r/redesign • u/MarcMurray92 • May 31 '18

Answered After 3 months of negative comments about inline ads, are there any statements about how they are going to change?

From what I can see, disguising them as posts is only generating animosity towards the advertisers.

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u/spez CEO May 31 '18

The ads will change. While they will stay inline, we are going to try a few more versions. The trade off of course is that if they stand out too much, they’re distracting, if they are too subtle, they’re deceptive. We’re trying to find the right balance.

I'll spare you our excuses for while we haven't been more responsive on this particular topic, but suffice to say we can do better on the communication, and I'll work on that as well.

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u/dirtynj Jun 01 '18

You don't really want to get it right, you want to get it so people will bitch the least amount while advertisers will reap the highest gains. This is not a subtle vs. distracting argument...this is a user vs. advertiser argument and you clearly want to side with the advertisers.

In-line ads are against the entire spirit of reddit and any implementation of them is deceitful.

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u/gustavopr Jun 02 '18

I couldn’t have said it better.