"Sponsored links" nidway through a thread?!

stevebakh · Post by **stevebakh** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:26 pm

Ughh, why? Why do we have to have sponsored and google link midway through the thread? Can we just lump them at the top and leave them there, rather than having them in the centre?

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:36 pm

stevebakh wrote:Ughh, why? Why do we have to have sponsored and google link midway through the thread? Can we just lump them at the top and leave them there, rather than having them in the centre?

Was wondering when this would come up... IBL!

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:39 pm

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:45 pm

just noticed that reminds me of ezboard

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:46 pm

stevebakh wrote:Ughh, why? Why do we have to have sponsored and google link midway through the thread? Can we just lump them at the top and leave them there, rather than having them in the centre?

...to get you to up to premium - no ads...

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:57 pm

Post a screenshot

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:08 pm

Cabledude wrote:Post a screenshot

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d104/ ... chlich.png

Hope you didnt mean a screenshot of what we were talking about

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:24 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d104/ ... chlich.png

Hope you didnt mean a screenshot of what we were talking about

I did.

But what you posted is acceptable.

Post by **Philip** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:58 pm

It's only in longer threads (after the 10th post, the 30th, etc. at 20 post intervals), and it is in place of another banner that was on the bottom of every page...

Just testing performance for a few days at this stage, I'm not sure if it those ads will remain at all.

Shouldn't be too annoying since colors are matching the themes... Is it ?

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:08 pm

Philip wrote:It's only in longer threads (after the 10th post, the 30th, etc. at 20 post intervals), and it is in place of another banner that was on the bottom of every page...

Just testing performance for a few days at this stage, I'm not sure if it those ads will remain at all.

Shouldn't be too annoying since colors are matching the themes... Is it ?

It's alot less annoying than those "Ad Bot" posts that many forums have.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:18 pm

What are these ads you speak of ?

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:04 pm

Izzo wrote:What are these ads you speak of ?

Becoming a premium member is a quick and easy fix for this.

stevebakh · Post by **stevebakh** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:51 pm

Not all of us can afford to spend money for a membership to a discussion forum.

And philip, I don't speak for everyone certainly, but for me personally - I'm not fond of the advertisements - even with them taken away (right now they're not showing), the gap is a little annoying between the posts. It's just advertising in general that's annoying. You can't escape it - in real life, on TV, in work, at school and even on the internet.

Guys, wait for the day when they have giant bill-boards in space. It would be funny if it wasn't so disgustingly sick.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:19 pm

stevebakh wrote: And philip, I don't speak for everyone certainly, but for me personally - I'm not fond of the advertisements - even with them taken away (right now they're not showing), the gap is a little annoying between the posts. It's just advertising in general that's annoying. You can't escape it - in real life, on TV, in work, at school and even on the internet.

Guys, wait for the day when they have giant bill-boards in space. It would be funny if it wasn't so disgustingly sick.

I don't mind them, I know I eat my fair share of bandwidth around here so they need to make money somehow.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:36 pm

I saw it at work today. And I think it breaks up some of the ****ty responses of late in serious threads.

Post by **Philip** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:23 pm

It's gone

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:48 pm

Philip wrote:It's gone

stevebakh · Post by **stevebakh** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:52 pm

Philip wrote:It's gone

Awesome. =)

thepieman · Post by **thepieman** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:20 pm

While I understand that advertisements are everywhere and not everyone can afford to pay for premium membership, it is kinda unfair to complain about a form of generating income on a website that helps to pay its bills. News sites, Blogs and even the entertainment/joke sites all have 1 minute movies you gotta pretty much watch before u even get to the thing you wanna watch. Running a website costs $ and if you want the site to remain up to par it requires even more $.

Pie

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:56 pm

thepieman wrote:While I understand that advertisements are everywhere and not everyone can afford to pay for premium membership, it is kinda unfair to complain about a form of generating income on a website that helps to pay its bills. News sites, Blogs and even the entertainment/joke sites all have 1 minute movies you gotta pretty much watch before u even get to the thing you wanna watch. Running a website costs $ and if you want the site to remain up to par it requires even more $.

Pie

amen brotha

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:48 am

thepieman wrote:While I understand that advertisements are everywhere and not everyone can afford to pay for premium membership, it is kinda unfair to complain about a form of generating income on a website that helps to pay its bills. News sites, Blogs and even the entertainment/joke sites all have 1 minute movies you gotta pretty much watch before u even get to the thing you wanna watch. Running a website costs $ and if you want the site to remain up to par it requires even more $.

Pie

I realize that, but also if the ads get to intrusive, people don't come back. Keeping readers is important as well for websites.