Finally! Somebody does something useful with the E-Bay Pop up

[Alexander's Horse]

http://www.an.i-dentity.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/014006.html

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Chaos, panic and disorder - My work here is done.

[Provost Harrison]

[Alexander's Horse]

Somebody is going to have to show me how to do that.


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Chaos, panic and disorder - My work here is done.

[Henrik]

Do what?

[MikeH]

AH you could edit his post and see what he did.

[DanQ]

I am hurt and insulted. If this is an attempt at humour -- to vent some frustration at the ad itself, its pop-up nature etc. -- that's one thing. However, there is something else that can be read into this that is not so nice and pretty clear to see. It certainly does not have me laughing. I find this image offensive and take it as a form of a personal attack.

If we didn't have to have ads on our site, we wouldn't run them (we don't like them anymore than you), but we have to pay the bills -- server space, bandwidth etc. We don't dictate the status of the online advertising market -- we simply live its ups and downs like everybody else.

Constructive criticisms are one thing, but this doesn't help anyone or anything.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

[Solver]

DanQ,
Despite loving your real-audio newsletter, I have to disagree with you here. I tend to browse the forums in at least 4 windows, what means 4 ebay pop-ups, so I spend lots of time clicking the close button on it. And humor is a great way to laugh at something, for example this image made me smile here. Anyway, I will never click on the ad, I'll just X it. And the reason why I let it open, without killing it, is just becasue I don't want to kill Apolyton. However, I think that many people would pay for not seeing this ad, and the thread by MarkG shows that pretty clearly.

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Solver - http://www.aok.20m.com

[Gibsie]

If that thread has offended you DanQ, then good. Now you know how the regular poster feels when he sees the pop-up.

[Solver]

Gibsie,
IMO you forget one important thing. There's no reason to offend DanQ, as he is running Apolyton for free, and for his own, MarkG's and our fun. They could make it ad-free, but then everyone should pay for posting. Thus, you just have to tolerate the ads. The positives of Apolyto are much heavier than this banner.

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Solver - http://www.aok.20m.com

[TCO]

Hey! You guys lay off DanQ. He is a little sensitive about some things.

It's not his fault that Gamestats is getting him back for the assaults on AOK Heaven by GS, Spink and YYYH.

[Gibsie]

Well, the admins know how much everyone hates the ad; people have stopped coming here as often because of it ferchrissakes. It is their site, and the ad is hurting peoples' appreciation of their hard work, they should be utterly disgusted by it. If it takes some silly thread with a silly graphic to make DanQ realisw how much the ad sicks, then it might make him try to do something about it.

I know we can all complain, but a webmaster of a site with thousands of hits a day is going to have more sway than a nobody like me.

[Winston]

Pardon my French GP, but please could you cease posting your trolling crap all the time. It's not funny.

[Alexander's Horse]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by DanQ on 03-18-2001 12:49 AM</font>

I am hurt and insulted. I find this image offensive and take it as a form of a personal attack.

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Dan; Apolyton CS
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Oh lighten up Dan - Spender is a genius and I don't think he has a malicious bone in his body. It was very funny.




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Chaos, panic and disorder - My work here is done.

[Caesar the Great]

Since when are bones malicious?

[The Mad Monk]

I think the funny bone is particularly malicious...