What's with all the advertising?
#1
Senior Member
Thread Starter
What's with all the advertising?
Wow, I thought I was on FaceBook for a second. Is it really necessary to have ads popping up on the top banner, down the side of the site page and even on the bottom? I understand the need for money to run the site but seems like a sell out Just me being cranky, again
#3
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Well...somebody has got to pay for the site. It doesn't run itself for free.
#4
Mark
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They can always get rid of them and charge you a membership fee...you should be use to it if your on facebook.
#5
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Basically this ^^^ For a site this size ads are absolutely essential to keeping the lights on so to speek. I understand that they are annoying at times but without them there would be no free forum. However there should be no pop up ads, if there are please take a screen shot of them and forward them to the site admin Lenn so he can pass it on to the people that owns this site. As for the content of the ads we have little control over that, they are Google based ads and pick ads based off of keywords used in the site so if youre seeing ads for chevy, well thats because someone was talking about a chevy in a thread somewhere. Thats in a nutshell how that works.
Last edited by kozal01; 09-07-2013 at 10:30 PM.
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#6
Senior Member
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Well I'm not sure what Face book you visit but I've never paid for any membership fees on mine. As for the ads on this site these are something new I've never seen before. Vehicle/truck ads OK but I'm looking at a banner ad that is for a recliner chair by "Stressless" . It opened as I passed by the ad, and won't close now and it's covering my post. Guess I'll log off and try again.
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#8
It is funny that I see that response on just about every forum there is. Let me point out that it costs next to nothing to host a forum on a server (even a dedicated server)(I am in the business) and one vendor easily pays for that. This is a money making machine and from the looks of it, it is doing quite well. ADs are the way of life on the internet and if the forum owner(s) want ADs to make money, well then, so be it. But let's please stop saying someone has to pay for it like it costs thousands of dollars a month and the owner is some down out of luck guy, because it doesn't and they aren't.
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#10
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The Infinity ad is horrible-it messes up the screen size on my ipad and I find myself spending much less time here due to that ads width