Hey everyone,
How is your evening treating you?
Let's discuss ads. Who doesn't like them :p. Now as you can tell there are no ads on this site and if you wish you can ad your own at the bottom of a post. It is a good system that lets people use ads if they wish but doesn't force it on people in the site itself. We are still growing without the revenue and I think there are some big changes to come. So no it looks like, at this time, we do not need ads. But how you feel if they were added? Would it turn you off to the site?
If we had a banner or side ads it could bring in a lot of revenue to the site. This money could be split into paying the team at steem, putting more money into advertising and buying back steem to burn. For those of you unaware of that term, burning a crypto means making the coin unavailable to anyone (since you can't delete it). By doing this you decrease the total of the coin and this raise the value of it. We can decide what percentage of the ad money goes where but it can really help the network grow.
On the negative side ads come with taking up space on our site and restrictions. Some ads have requirements that steem users might not be happy with. I think we can find a middle ground and a small banner or two wouldn't bug me personally as long as it was not obtrusive. Having money come in to buy back steem can go a long way.
But that is just me, what do you think?
