With the cutover to a pay site will we have the "feature" of turning off advertising.
Will the ads go away now?
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Or at least some of it?
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Rprecision
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You see being a paid member alows you to pay for what you have now, not something else...........
Did you get the memo ?
Did you get the memo ?
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No kidding. At least take them off my profile page too.
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Are the ads in your way? It's not like we are talking about pop ups here, just the same ads located in the same spots they have been for years right? So what I'm I missing here guys, why do you want them turned off when they are not in your way?
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becuse folks are starting to realize that paying to see adds that are, paid for by the companies advertising, seems well..............
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What???? How about you try that one more time.
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Ok, I understand your a moderator so this may take a little more explaining:
Traditional forums, such as that of snowest, prior to the awakening operate (make their money) from advertisements. This works rather well provided you have a good forum base (Users) who use the forum on a regular basis (Justify the advertisement)
Non Traditional Forums use their forum base (Users) to operate (make their money). This means the users pay to use the forum. One benefit to this is a clean forum which is for the most part exactly what the users demand (because their paying). These usually includes no pop ups, advertisement. Etc.
What the original poster asked was rather simple. If we are now paying why are there still adds ?
The answer is better left to the almighty himself
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I like how you start with your insults right from the start. Makes it nice because now I know the person I'm dealing with.
But my original question has still not been answered. What I wanted to know is why the ads were interfering with your Snowest experience? Or is this just the fact that it's something that was thought about but has no real reason. Like you would rather have a blue background than a white type of thing. Since the ads don't pop up or interfere with you while you browse Snowest. Oh and don't use the "it's the principal of the matter speech" because that's not really an answer to the question.
But the reason I ask this is because unlike what you think. The moderators and admin staff do care what people think about what is going on here.
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Ok, no insults from me:
Every other web forum I'm on has advertisements on it, UNTIL you pay. After you pay, no more ads.
Snowest should be the same way. I bought my subscription (plus some), I should have a clean page. Simple enough. No, they don't interfere, but I don't care to see them either.
Unlike most on the site anymore, I've been here since long before the ads were even a part of the site. I'm sure if you look back you'll find my post being the first to COMPLAIN about the first ads (it was an obnoxious flashing ski-doo ad) from back in the day.
On edit: screw it...right click in Firefox and block the ads. problem solved.
Every other web forum I'm on has advertisements on it, UNTIL you pay. After you pay, no more ads.
Snowest should be the same way. I bought my subscription (plus some), I should have a clean page. Simple enough. No, they don't interfere, but I don't care to see them either.
Unlike most on the site anymore, I've been here since long before the ads were even a part of the site. I'm sure if you look back you'll find my post being the first to COMPLAIN about the first ads (it was an obnoxious flashing ski-doo ad) from back in the day.
On edit: screw it...right click in Firefox and block the ads. problem solved.
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Rprecision-
I'll take that as you don't have a answer to my question. Which is what I thought in the first place.
Boston Racing-
However I'm still interested to see your reason for wanting to shut the ads off.
Thanks,
Ben
I'll take that as you don't have a answer to my question. Which is what I thought in the first place.
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However I'm still interested to see your reason for wanting to shut the ads off.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ok, no insults from me:
Every other web forum I'm on has advertisements on it, UNTIL you pay. After you pay, no more ads.
Snowest should be the same way. I bought my subscription (plus some), I should have a clean page. Simple enough. No, they don't interfere, but I don't care to see them either.
Unlike most on the site anymore, I've been here since long before the ads were even a part of the site. I'm sure if you look back you'll find my post being the first to COMPLAIN about the first ads (it was an obnoxious flashing ski-doo ad) from back in the day.
On edit: screw it...right click in Firefox and block the ads. problem solved.
As a paying member on a couple of other websites they all still have the ads around the page but any pop-ups would be gone. I guess I want to be able to see them as they might be for a product or information I might not know about.
Interesting about the Firefox thing, never knew that before.
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I thought it was well explained
You did a great job of explaining the difference between the two forum types.
But you never said why the ads got in your way of browsing Snowest. As a member now the ads must be in your way and negatively affecting you, right? Otherwise why would want them gone and spend your time posting about it here? That's all I want to know. If I'm supposed to make a point to the rest of admin about members wanting to be able to hide the ads then I need to know WHY they want them hidden? Is it just because you want that personal option, like changing the background color and hiding the forum subsections or is there another reason that they are in your way.
Ads are spammed throughout forums to pay for the service provided to the customer free of charge. Now that you are charging is there still a need for paid advertising? or is that just beer money? Sever sites out there have a free program and once you pay the ads go away.
If I am paying truthfully the flashing ads are annoying.
Is that easy enough to understand
It also takes up valuable real estate on the page when you are reading the site from your phone.......
I'm trying to keep an open mind to this paying thing but honestly instead of a treadmil I would rather be able to shut the adds off. If you have ever seen idiocracy you would get it about the flashing advertisments. Advertisers were a neccesity to keep the site running, they shouldnt be any longer...right?
I'm trying to keep an open mind to this paying thing but honestly instead of a treadmil I would rather be able to shut the adds off. If you have ever seen idiocracy you would get it about the flashing advertisments. Advertisers were a neccesity to keep the site running, they shouldnt be any longer...right?
but the site shouldnt need the ad money....right
