dont worry, it's YAOMGWBE

[MrFun]

I would like to charge for the use of space in my posts -- imagine the profits I can make!!

[Qilue]

I was reading the About Aployton page and saw this in news.

The relevant words are emboldened.

BOTTOM AMAZON ADS REMOVED, GOOGLE ADS EXPERIMENT
(21 March 2004, 10:05 | About) As their effect wasnt very important compared to the increase in loading time of pages, the bottom ads from Amazon and other retailers that showed up in the Default, Light, Default-Special and Light-Special styles of the forums, have been removed.

Also, as you might have noticed, we`re running a small experiment with Google ads in forum posts in the Off-Topic forum. They`ll stay for a few more days. If proven worthy, they might be in one of the styles as a partial replacement to pop-ups. - MarkG

I guess it's a choice between the lesser of two evils.

[Imran Siddiqui]

btw, seeing what is going on at the SDMB (they are charging to use the forums), I'd much rather deal with the occasional post ad.

[Mercator]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
The ads-in-posts suck worse than pop-ups. They are intrusive and can lead to people "endorsing" things they find personally repugnant. Not cool at all.

I disagree... Only the right-margin is a bit of a bother, but other than that, I'd much rather have post ads than pop-ups.

And as far as "endorsing" is concerned... I really can't see this as being any more of a problem than with any other ads. It's an ad, I'm not endorsing anything. If anyone, MarkG would be the one doing the endorsing (considering he's the only one with any control over it).

I think it can even add a little humour, as Asher has clearly shown.

Edit: WTF!!11! I take that back! Anything but Civ3, I hate Civ3!

[Kuciwalker]

I don't mind them, I barely notice them.

[Frozzy]

I urge all OTFers to restrict their posts to under 150 words

[BustaMike]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
The ads-in-posts suck worse than pop-ups. They are intrusive and can lead to people "endorsing" things they find personally repugnant. Not cool at all.

Maybe, but Asher seems to have an IPod ad stuck to ALL of his posts regardless of thread now, and that's absolutely hysterical !!

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

But only if you're really easily amused.

[Skanky Burns]

It was amusing for the first 20 posts or so. Mostly due to Asher's reaction to it (bitter parody).

One would expect the site owner to display the level of maturity he requires of other posters though.

[Atahualpa]

I love this thread.

Btw Firefox Mem usage pwns!! 15MB more than IE6!

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Kucinich


I don't mind them, I barely notice them.

and also there're kind of funny
I was writing about israel and i get a "buy israeli art" next to my post. i write about byzantium and i get a "buy books about byzantium", this is pretty cool.
also when slowwhand was writing about that berserk gorilla he got an add to protect nature.

[MarkG]

One would expect the site owner to display the level of maturity he requires of other posters though.

the asher ad will be gone when the experiment ends in 1-2 days

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by BustaMike


Maybe, but Asher seems to have an IPod ad stuck to ALL of his posts regardless of thread now, and that's absolutely hysterical !!

It is.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Frozzy
I urge all OTFers to restrict their posts to under 150 words

For MTG, this would be an impossible task.

[St Leo]

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