krooper13
Sonic the Hedgehog
Had it all and sold it, stupid economics.
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Post by krooper13 on Apr 10, 2007 17:35:40 GMT
Is there any reason there are add banners in the middle of threads now? Also is there anyway to turn them off, either for the whole site or on an individual basis?
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Aypok
Sonic the Hedgehog
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Post by Aypok on Apr 10, 2007 17:38:34 GMT
If I remember correctly, admins of the board can pay ProBoards to remove the adverts from the forum. I don't know how much this costs.
You could just install an ad-blocker - they do wonders. :)
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Post by playgeneration on Apr 10, 2007 18:38:09 GMT
Proboards have done it so its harder to simply ignore the adverts.
You can pay to have adverts removed from the site, the amount you pay depends on how many hits the forum gets, the busier the forum is the more it costs.
It doesn't bother me much, but if you'd prefer not to see them im sure Sinistral won't mind accepting donations to take them down.
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Post by Sinistral on Apr 11, 2007 23:19:21 GMT
This is unfortunate. We knew the day would come when they would force more advertising upon us. At the moment it doesn't bother me too much, but if they do bother everyone I will consider paying to get them taken down, as you say though playgen, a little bit of help may be required with the costs of this.
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Post by Stan on Apr 11, 2007 23:23:19 GMT
I can probably pitch in some.
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Post by Sinistral on Apr 11, 2007 23:23:22 GMT
It seems all you have to do is click the "make this board ad-free" at the bottom of the page. $7 buys 50,000 page views ad-free per month. Not much to ask really, i dont know if we get anywhere near that.
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Post by rupert on Apr 12, 2007 6:51:22 GMT
i dont mind chipping some, i'm not keen on the ad's at all
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Aypok
Sonic the Hedgehog
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Post by Aypok on Apr 12, 2007 7:12:33 GMT
It'd be interesting to know just how many page views this forum does get per month - although ProBoards doesn't seem to give out this information (not that I can see).
I'd also be willing to chip in a few quid over the months to cover the cost, if we do decide to axe the adverts.
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Kiff
Wonderboy
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Post by Kiff on Apr 12, 2007 7:38:06 GMT
I will chip in with any costs. The ads don't actually bother me but whatever everyone else wants is cool with me.
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Post by Bock on Apr 12, 2007 17:24:23 GMT
To get you some figures, SMS Power forums got about 178000 page view in the month of march. In reality, many of them are web crawling bots (difficult to count exactly), but I suppose they would be counted by ProBoards script.
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