Banner Ads Suck!
- Thread starter Gorecki
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j_fuggin_t
Member
most forums are all owned by verticle scope & they do take money to operate and operate at a decent speed, i was always surprised by the no ad's but low & behold here they are.
RyanITV
Admin
Yeah - we just had to upgrade the server. Even moving to a new host to bring costs down, it's still not cheap. Can't blame Bob for trying - he was like "why can't we just get one of those $10/month accounts?" ... I bet him you guys would bring that thing to its knees in 10 minutes.
This new server will allow us to do an upgrade to vBulletin 4.0 - complete with their mobile support that won't require Tap-a-Talk. Sadly, none of it's free.
Ryan
Gorecki
Member
The idea and scope of ads has purpose there is no question. Granted the revenue they generate is often trivial at best.
The side effect in some situations is the ultimate negative. When people visit from networks run trough a content filtering/restricting mechanism what happens in some cases is COMPLETELY ELIMINATING their ability to visit at all because this mechanism can blacklist the entire domain!
I deal with the above daily, right now my ability to visit hasn't been restricted yet, but it will be! There are many places on the internet restricted because their hosting service hosts something else considered *bad* so the entire IP address range is locked out. I haven't been able to get to roadracingworld.com for a long time because of this. Anything the average joe can get to, I can't during the day.
So, like I said, for lack of any better qualifier, banner ads suck!
Is there any intension of a pay for membership (oh that's right I already do that) to not have them?
The side effect in some situations is the ultimate negative. When people visit from networks run trough a content filtering/restricting mechanism what happens in some cases is COMPLETELY ELIMINATING their ability to visit at all because this mechanism can blacklist the entire domain!
I deal with the above daily, right now my ability to visit hasn't been restricted yet, but it will be! There are many places on the internet restricted because their hosting service hosts something else considered *bad* so the entire IP address range is locked out. I haven't been able to get to roadracingworld.com for a long time because of this. Anything the average joe can get to, I can't during the day.
So, like I said, for lack of any better qualifier, banner ads suck!
Is there any intension of a pay for membership (oh that's right I already do that) to not have them?
Bubba Zanetti
Member
The ads don't bother me...it is what it is.
BZ
BZ
some guy #2
Member
jcrich;226231 wrote: Well I'm sure you know the answer to this one then. Your employer probably wants you working and not surfing the Web.
Outrage! That's a god given right spelled in the declaration of the constitution! We fought china for our workplace freedom!