I’m not sure about asking us what is “acceptable” per se - I don’t want to come off as being entitled since I don’t necessarily help pay enough of the bills around here with my clicks on affiliate links. I hope they do some sound surveys and check metrics and such, but not necessarily by asking in the forum as we are a subset who may not be representative. I also wish they would at least explain what’s going on as it seems unnecessarily mysterious.
I realize that engagement can be be a burden, but BB has, for the past and present, decided that engagement with their audience is something they want, and pay extra for staff and infrastructure to have in the form of his forum. The transparency in moderation thread seems to be working well. So I’d think transparency about monitization could work well to. And I think it would be interesting, engaging material.
Whether it is possible survive on the web financially without being evil is kind of a key theme covered by BB over the years, so I’d think BB’s insights into this would make for good editorial content.
