[IcemanND]

The Sponsor icon on the posts are replaced with "Group Icon" text. And the ads are showing after the first post.
Just started today that I noticed.

[Sponsor]

[Martin L]

Hello IcemanND,

I am sorry for the inconvenience, but i just added those user groups last Saturday, and we are quite busy to investigate that leaking of emails ATM.... but everything should be fine within a couple of days.

Thanks for reporting

[Martin L]

everything should be working fine now

[GreenMachine]

Just to let you know, I am still seeing the ads between the 1st and 2nd post here.

Also, though I needed to log on for access yesterday, I still saw lots of "guest" users. Not the case today.

No complaining, just trying to help you debug!

Good Luck!

[IcemanND]

Ditto, icon is back but the ads are still there.

[Martin L]

Sorry my bad guys.... i forgot to edit in the admin cp internet is kinda slow here so let me know if it is ok now.

As for those guests.... they cant see anything. They are brought here by Google, we get thousends of visitors here from Google, but we had some problems and till we fixed it guests cant see the forums.

Martin.

[GreenMachine]

Now that I am a little more awake ... I do NOT see the ads at the top of the page, just beween the 1st and 2nd post. Maybe that is the way it is supposed to be ....

Hiya IcemanND!

[IcemanND]

Now there's an ad at the bottom of the pages ony. None at the top or between the 1st & 2nd post.

Hi GreenMachine.

[Martin L]

The only ad you are supposed to see is at the bottom of the page... at top of the page and between the first and second post should be gone, i just checked it with my test account.

Hi IcemanND and Greenmachine

[GreenMachine]

Working fine now ... could be the last bit of sleep is gone from my eyes!

Thanks, Martin L! That makes the "sponsor" thingy really worth it! (Hint Hint ... )

[HyperHacker]

Big banner ads posing as posts... some of the absolute worst boards I find on Google do that to guests. This is the first board I've ever seen stoop so low as to do it to registered users. Please, don't bother arguing "it's a little unobtrusive text link" because it's not. It's a big annoying banner in a large font that doesn't match the page's colours at all. I don't know whether to be more disgusted with MSFN for implementing this even for registered users, or Google for abandoning the little unobtrusive text links they were known for. Ah well, <3 Adblock.

If you want people to donate, maybe consider offering something worth the money. Asking someone to pay to get rid of several ads on each page is like punching someone in the arm and telling them you won't stop unless they pay you.

This post has been edited by HyperHacker: 03 August 2006 - 11:31 PM

[Camarade_Tux]

I don't like ads but I know they are needed.
I don't see what is the problem with the "remove ads" feature for sponsors : msfn needs money to run. If you help msfn by donating it's normal you don't have ads anymore : donate or have ads.
And imho it's normal this is stated as a benefit : imagine someone tries to sell a car and doesn't say what you will get for your money.

And as far as I'm concerned, I only see the ad between the first and the second post once because I use IPB's "show new posts/replies" and I go directly to new posts without seeing ads much.

About visitors seeing that : msfn has lots of good informations and I know many many websites with worse infos having more ads and especially intellitxt ones : "oh why is this word underlined ? -> Ad". Take a look at Tom'sHardware (good site btw) : it has really a lot af advertisement and also high costs.

Websites need money, just like everything else.

[Martin L]

HyperHacker, on Aug 4 2006, 06:29 AM, said:

If you want people to donate, maybe consider offering something worth the money. Asking someone to pay to get rid of several ads on each page is like punching someone in the arm and telling them you won't stop unless they pay you.

You didnt read this, this, this and this topics did you?

As for the rest... read Camarade_Tux's reply

[Aegis]

Umm...unless I'm mistaken, aren't those topics all the same ?

[Shindo_Hikaru]

The way i see it is if you don't like it and do not want ot sponsor, then do not join. I don't really need the extra goodies offered, don't mind the ads, but i know that money helps, and helps alot.

[gamehead200]

Aegis, on Aug 4 2006, 07:02 PM, said:

Umm...unless I'm mistaken, aren't those topics all the same ?

[Martin L]

Aegis, on Aug 5 2006, 12:02 AM, said:

Umm...unless I'm mistaken, aren't those topics all the same ?

yup indeed so he could have read the extras he would get once he donated

[HyperHacker]

Martin L, on Aug 4 2006, 03:30 AM, said:

HyperHacker, on Aug 4 2006, 06:29 AM, said:

If you want people to donate, maybe consider offering something worth the money. Asking someone to pay to get rid of several ads on each page is like punching someone in the arm and telling them you won't stop unless they pay you.

You didnt read this, this, this and this topics did you?

As for the rest... read Camarade_Tux's reply

I honestly don't care about any of those features (though to answer your question, no, I didn't read those before). I rarely use PMs here and I have my own file hosting. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the site and if it didn't require Paypal I'd probably donate something. It just really annoys me when people use this particular method of showing ads, especially to registered users. I actually had configured Proxomitron to hide Google ads in a small box, but load them, and if I clicked the box the ad would be shown. MSFN's sticking ads in the middle of the page forced me to turn this off and just completely block them, because the rest of the page won't load until they do, and they're sloooooooow. If they were placed at the bottom, I'd gladly turn this back on and click every now and then.