well they do have those high speed servers now.
Will the ads go away now?
- Thread starter Boston Racing
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I have to watch 10 minutes of advertising commercials when I go to a movie theater and pay $12 to see a 2 hour movie. Should the movie be free? The theatres used to be commercial free....but just like almost every business now days, they are doing all they reasonably can to make more $$. Not everyone likes it, but they still go to the movies in record numbers...not mention stand in a line to pay $12 more for a friggin soda and poopcorn! 
Same thing here.
Same thing here.
I have noticed that the majority of the time when things are running slow it is due to adds loading and not from the SW site itself. In addition to this I would like to remove the banners across the top of the screen because the top one never changes and the other is mostly an image.
Why couldn't the add in the lower banner be put on the right side of the screen like other adds, due away with the top banner all together and incorporate it into the right side of the page so it is easier to get to the content we want but still have the adds.
Ok, I know you are all thinking why is this free guy even posting. Well to answer this is a long story but to make it short, I have no job and every penny counts to help with food and to keep me from loosing my house. I would pay but just can't justify the money at this time.
Why couldn't the add in the lower banner be put on the right side of the screen like other adds, due away with the top banner all together and incorporate it into the right side of the page so it is easier to get to the content we want but still have the adds.
Ok, I know you are all thinking why is this free guy even posting. Well to answer this is a long story but to make it short, I have no job and every penny counts to help with food and to keep me from loosing my house. I would pay but just can't justify the money at this time.
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?
Now this is what I wanted to see, thank you. It has also been brought up for the dial-up users as a way for the site to be faster for them. I'll ask the question and see what happens.
Thanks,
Ben
No ads in theory should lead to faster load times, etc, which would be nice since I'm paying.
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?
good point....my crackberry takes forever to load due to the ads.....
very true on the loading times. a lot of time im not on the nice new highspeed web to load things.. seems that the first thigns that come up is the adds.. then it has to think a while and load the rest of the page.. seems kinda backwards to me.. content.. then adds.
I dont really mind most of them.. but I definately understand people wanting the toggle option, especially tose on crackberries.. the adds are still pretty large on those and then the actual posting part gets really shrunk down.
I dont really mind most of them.. but I definately understand people wanting the toggle option, especially tose on crackberries.. the adds are still pretty large on those and then the actual posting part gets really shrunk down.
I paid........
After thinking about it nobody's time is free, including Christopher's. I dont like making everybody pay because I think it will be bad for the site but I wont work for free. So...it is what it is.
So can there be a way to shut the ads down as an option or better yet a "mobile" SW site?
Even if 10,000 member pay that is only 100k per year and 1 good full time Sysadmin will cost that in salary alone. That being said users will expect alot more that exuses whenever there is a problem.
After thinking about it nobody's time is free, including Christopher's. I dont like making everybody pay because I think it will be bad for the site but I wont work for free. So...it is what it is.
So can there be a way to shut the ads down as an option or better yet a "mobile" SW site?
Even if 10,000 member pay that is only 100k per year and 1 good full time Sysadmin will cost that in salary alone. That being said users will expect alot more that exuses whenever there is a problem.
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Since I'm not a member on Thumpertalk (yet anyway) what else do you get with your paid membership and how much is it?
Team TT Membership
-No banner ads = faster page loads
-Access to private members only forum
-Upload photos and attachments directly to the forum
-Much larger private message inbox
-Create polls
-Special avatar so everyone knows you're a Team TT member
29.99 a year
9.99 a 3 months
3.99 a month
I have asked the question about the ads and I know they were looking into what it would take for a mobile site a while back. But I'm not sure what came of that. I'll see if I can find out more on that.
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thread defines the issue
funny, i read through this thread and my main thought was, gee, this thread pretty much defines the issue/conflict at hand. (bare with me, i'm generalizing)
1)someone asks a question. one that is pretty straight forward but clearly intend to highlight some of his frustrations, if not slightly rhetorical.
2)a mod responds, missing the point, and wants to know what the issue is (with a bit of an attitude. fairly passive aggressive)
3)the OP responds and expresses his frustration with an insult.
4)the mod responds, calling out the insult, issuing one of his own, and definitely popping an attitude. which continues to widen the gap between the mods and users, paying or not. and COMPLETELY missing the point. and yes it is the principle of the matter and if you don't understand that then you are too entrenched on your "side" of the issue.
but i'm a nobody, non payer, at this point. i'm waiting for the dust to settle to see how things turn out. the biggest advantage i see with going to a pay site is it should get rid of the vast majority of the trolls (ie: hitman)
pv
funny, i read through this thread and my main thought was, gee, this thread pretty much defines the issue/conflict at hand. (bare with me, i'm generalizing)
1)someone asks a question. one that is pretty straight forward but clearly intend to highlight some of his frustrations, if not slightly rhetorical.
2)a mod responds, missing the point, and wants to know what the issue is (with a bit of an attitude. fairly passive aggressive)
3)the OP responds and expresses his frustration with an insult.
4)the mod responds, calling out the insult, issuing one of his own, and definitely popping an attitude. which continues to widen the gap between the mods and users, paying or not. and COMPLETELY missing the point. and yes it is the principle of the matter and if you don't understand that then you are too entrenched on your "side" of the issue.
but i'm a nobody, non payer, at this point. i'm waiting for the dust to settle to see how things turn out. the biggest advantage i see with going to a pay site is it should get rid of the vast majority of the trolls (ie: hitman)
pv
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Register for free and PM XC700116 (same name) or SnowMule (Mule here)
So to follow along with your post I added in all of the posts you referenced, just to make it clear.
Interesting take on the thread when you look at it in your context and read the posts with it. I wonder if Boston Racing feels that I insulted him like you stated. But I will agree with you that the gap between the Moderators and some of the members has become too large. But there are reasons for that that we don't need to drift this thread in order to cover that.
funny, i read through this thread and my main thought was, gee, this thread pretty much defines the issue/conflict at hand. (bare with me, i'm generalizing)
1)someone asks a question. one that is pretty straight forward but clearly intend to highlight some of his frustrations, if not slightly rhetorical.
2)a mod responds, missing the point, and wants to know what the issue is (with a bit of an attitude. fairly passive aggressive)
3)the OP responds and expresses his frustration with an insult.
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
4)the mod responds, calling out the insult, issuing one of his own, and definitely popping an attitude. which continues to widen the gap between the mods and users, paying or not. and COMPLETELY missing the point. and yes it is the principle of the matter and if you don't understand that then you are too entrenched on your "side" of the issue.
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?
but i'm a nobody, non payer, at this point. i'm waiting for the dust to settle to see how things turn out. the biggest advantage i see with going to a pay site is it should get rid of the vast majority of the trolls (ie: hitman)
pv
Interesting take on the thread when you look at it in your context and read the posts with it. I wonder if Boston Racing feels that I insulted him like you stated. But I will agree with you that the gap between the Moderators and some of the members has become too large. But there are reasons for that that we don't need to drift this thread in order to cover that.
You know, I'd take ads every couple posts like some forums if I could read the whole thread for free. Annoying, but the cut off is even more annoying.
Could you really be so dense as to not notice that this is EXACTLY what has happened around here on a regular basis recently? You are one of the most obvious ones that I have seen, with a bit of attitude instead of an answer on a relatively regular basis. There are others that are noticeable, but I think his explanation was as spot on as you could possibly get.
I'm not calling you names, I'm not saying you're a bad guy, I'm just saying that this is just one example of what is creating a easy to identify barrier between the paid membership & some of us that just can't get over being treated the way that some of you treat us. Just like B.R. I'll surely admit to having an attitude in some posts, but being pissy & obstinate back sure doesn't help things.
And here is what I'm talking about, it goes both ways. You say I'm not calling you names, but than turn around and do. Why do you feel that it's OK to say whatever you want towards the moderators/admin and if they so much as get an attitude they are in the wrong. I'm no different in my opinions than you are. So my tag says moderator in it. I have been on Snowest along time before that tag existed. Do you expect me to just stand here and let you beat up on me all day long every day? No matter what I say or do I get somebody coming after me for something. Heck, it even got an entire thread in FP a while back.
Back to the point. Can a paying member opt out of the ads Christopher?
