# Ads under the first post?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-under-the-first-post/439837>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [March 2, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-under-the-first-post/439837 "2008-03-02T12:41:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-under-the-first-post/439837/1 "2008-03-02T12:41:28Z")

</div>

Did I miss some announcement on this? I find this rather annoying.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2008, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-under-the-first-post/439837/2 "2008-03-02T12:43:03Z")

</div>

I must seeing things - now it’s not happening. Strange.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2008, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-under-the-first-post/439837/3 "2008-03-02T12:56:25Z")

</div>

[QUOTE=BwanaBob]  
I must seeing things - now it’s not happening. Strange.  
[/QUOTE]

They appears to those not logged in- did you switch from not being logged in to logged in?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2008, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-under-the-first-post/439837/4 "2008-03-02T12:56:47Z")

</div>

You generally only see them if you are not logged in as a member.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-under-the-first-post/439837/5 "2008-03-02T13:55:09Z")

</div>

But when did it start?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-under-the-first-post/439837/6 "2008-03-02T15:32:16Z")

</div>

Been in place for a while, months. Most of us are logged in all the time so we don’t see it.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-under-the-first-post/439837/7 "2008-03-03T01:10:04Z")

</div>

That must have been it - I hadn’t logged in. Thanks.