Boycotting the banners ads

OK, everyone’s pissed about the banner ads, and maybe still pissed about the google ads. They don’t bother me much, but I like this place and I don’t want to see a bunch of good people split because of them.

Let’s face it: TPTB aren’t ever going to ask for our input or opinions regarding board administration, and that’s their decision to make. We don’t like many of these decisions and we’re entitled to our opinions. So how do we reconcile these positions?

We do it the smart way. We react appropriately, and with discipline. Quitting the boards isn’t the answer. Blocking the ads is a start, but we need to send a message.

This may be a stupid idea, but I don’t think so - I think it’s our best bet and the smartest way to get our message across.

Perhaps we could purchase an ad to appear in that banner, expressing our disgust and directing people to join a different message board

I’m dead serious with this question. . .where are the banner ads?

I don’t see any.

Are they there when you have a thread open, or there when you’re looking a forum?

At the bottom of my screen, I have a bar tht says “Advertisements” but all I see there is a message that says, “The URL was blocked. etc etc etc”

Don’t we already have a boycott thread? Banner Ads: An SDMB Posting Boycott - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board

I’m glad of the banner episode - it’s finally got me to block all adverts. If the spammers realised none of their target market were actually going to see their adverts they wouldn’t bother.

But on the other hand if advertisers want to pay for ads that are never seen then I guess it is their business.

What worries me is that a combination of exodus and reduced influx will send this board into an irreversible decline.

This place went seriously downhill after becoming a pay site.

This whole banner ad thing has really got me down.

I hope my anti-depressants get here soon.

A posting boycott doesn’t make any sense. I think we need to make the punishment fit he crime. TPTB put up banner ads, we refuse to click them. They get zero click-throughs and eventually get the message.

Yes. I’m closing this thread as we already have several on the banner ads topic and one on boycotts in particular.