Running political advertisements on Non political blogs is very poor taste

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    speakingofprecision · Member ·

    What a surprise to me as a wordpress blogger to find wordpress placing political advertisements in my manufacturing blog for Illinois Governor Quinn, no friend of manufacturers. WORDPRESS, You should do a better job of understanding your “customer’s” sensitivities. I am catching some heat from folks in Illinois wondering why my neutral knowledge retention manufacturing blog is running advertisements for the “enemy”. SHAME WordPress. Shame.

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  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    A lot of bloggers want to either pick the ads or only have contextually relevant ads. I’m afraid, however, that online advertising today doesn’t work that way. WordPress.com is a top 10 global site and for the most part we don’t get to pick ads, rather the advertisers pick us. We do have a process where we pick ad partners and we have screened out a number whose quality standards are not up to our standards and we can block ads explicitly featuring sex, violence, and drugs, but currently it’s not possible for us to give each blogger the ability to pick ads or to run only contextually relevant ads.

    We try hard to only run them in limited places. If you would like to completely eliminate ads from appearing on your blog, we offer the No-Ads Upgrade: http://store.wordpress.com/premium-upgrades/ad-free/

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