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"Sponsored links" nidway through a thread?!

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:26 pm
by stevebakh
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? :mad:

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:36 pm
by Kyle
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? :mad:
Was wondering when this would come up... IBL! :D

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:39 pm
by CableDude
:wth:

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:45 pm
by Ghosthunter
just noticed that reminds me of ezboard

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:46 pm
by cyberskye
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? :mad:
Image

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

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:57 pm
by CableDude
Post a screenshot

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:08 pm
by YARDofSTUF
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 :D

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:24 pm
by CableDude
YARDofSTUF wrote:http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d104/ ... chlich.png


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

I did. :D



But what you posted is acceptable. :thumb:

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:58 pm
by Philip
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 ?

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:08 pm
by Kyle
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. ;)

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:18 pm
by Izzo
What are these ads you speak of ? :wth:

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:04 pm
by Jim
Izzo wrote:What are these ads you speak of ? :wth:
:nod:

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

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:51 pm
by stevebakh
Not all of us can afford to spend money for a membership to a discussion forum. :p

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.

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:19 pm
by Kyle
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. :D

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:36 pm
by CableDude
I saw it at work today. And I think it breaks up some of the ****ty responses of late in serious threads.

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:23 pm
by Philip
It's gone

Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:48 pm
by YARDofSTUF
Philip wrote:It's gone
:D :thumb:

Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:52 pm
by stevebakh
Philip wrote:It's gone
Awesome. =)

Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:20 pm
by thepieman
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

Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:56 pm
by morbidpete
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
:nod: amen brotha

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:48 am
by YARDofSTUF
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.