I think for some folks it’s just the straw that broke the camel’s back. I don’t really care about the banner ads. Or the google ads. My gripe is with the board going P2P because I thinks it’s been really detrimental to our community. Anyways, I was really burnt out with this place for a while and so I took some off. It helped. Yeah, I still think the SDMB is in a slump, but to be honest it doesn’t seem as dire as it did before I took a posting sabbatical.
If I was still in the frame of mind I was in before I took a break I think I’d be going bananas over those damned ads. And to be honest, I’d rather have ads than P2P (not that it’s an option).
The ads are a nuisance, and disruptive, but they can be blocked.
It also stuns me that posters here have such a sense of entitlement, like we should have a part in decision-making regarding board administration. What TPTH want to do with this board is their business, and it’s preposterous to think they should consult us before make decisions like implementing banner ads.
I also think it’s absurd and insane to expect that TPTB could give a shit about what any of us think about the banner ads and whatnot. Complaining about this stuff is less than pointless - it’s like bitching at the paperboy about the newspaper format/content/layout.
Put up or shut up, I say. Gonna leave the boards to protest ads? Go ahead. Go right now, if you’re so goddamned indignant about it. In the mean-time, it sounds really really stupid when folks say “This place sucks so much I’m leaving. In six months.”
Maybe they’re upset because they appreciate the SDMB being a place free of those ads?
I haven’t posted any long gripes but I find the idea of advertisments being introduced into a place I’m already paying for, after they’ve cashed my proverbial check, to be pretty shitty. I could be more flowery about it but others have already done it better.
Well let’s be fair. There are levels of kvetching going on. The most reasonable ones are that it “scerews up my browser, has sound, and slows down my computer”. The other level of kvetching is those who are just in general annoyed that their eyeballs have been infioltrated by the slightest suggestion of an advertisement. As if this is the greatest atrocity that could have been perpetrated. Those of us in the “meh” crowd" don’t have the issues with the first kind of kvetching, we just don’t personally have those issues (or I don’t) and find the second kind of kvetching to be hysterical ranting.
Shrug. I already paid for it and I’m not getting my money back.
Perhaps yelling at the paperboy doesn’t accomplish much but, if my local newspaper sucks, I don’t think it’s especially false of me to continue to glance over the paper for the rest of my subscription and just throw the subscription card away when it comes in the mail. Do I have to make an angry face and screw up each day’s paper into a ball or else my annoyance isn’t valid?
There we go. I don’t go to many websites that have banner ads, and the SDMB is the only website I pay a subscription to. It’s the concept of the thing.
Fuck. I knew I spelled kvetching wrong. :mad: Anyway, I hear what you’re saying. It’s just that many folks (not necessarily you included) have basically blown off any opposition that it’s frustrating in the “but no one came for me until” sense. I just can’t get it. Doesn’t matter if it’s happening to me personally or not. If a fellow human is suffering, than it must somehow translate, right? Or perhaps I’m too close due to relatable external forces and all. Thanks for your input though GO.
I don’t understand the “I paid for this” attitude. It’s not an either/or thing. If you paid a substantial amount of money, on the understanding that such and such would or would not occur, then by all means feel pissed off. But my memory is of paying a small amount of money out of little more than goodwill and a vague hope that maybe things would get better if the tech guy wasn’t too busy doing things that, you know, earned his employers some money. I did not expect the Chicago Reader to suddenly be at my beck and call.
Maybe I’m just incredibly lucky (bwahaha . . ha, I say), but on every fourth or fifth page, I’m getting ads for cars (usually Fords, it seems). The car ads are the kind where if you accidentally mouse ANYWHERE near it, the damned thing explodes up all huge and starts a very loud video, narrated by the movie preview guy (who else?). There is an X button to close the whole thing, but this naturally does not work. So, I have to reload the page, then tiptoe around the ad, so as not to disrupt its slumber.
Pray tell sir. What effects are the banner ads having on you? For this level of drama, I would think they would at least cause birth defects, sudden addictions to high risk behaviors like gambling, and explosive diarhea. I hope it’s not just not liking the look of the banner ads on the page or having problems surfing the dope at work, because that would be nutty.
I’d also like to add that I’ve seen at least a few posters express the sentiment “I don’t see the ads at all, but if it’s true and they’re permanent, I’ll quit the boards too.”
This has got to be one of the stupidest things I think I’ve ever read here. Really.
Well I am not going anywhere, but I reserve the right to bitch and moan and more importantly help anyone that needs help to block these nasties. I don’t care about the banners per say, it was the noisy banner that pissed me off.
Regardless of whether I paid much for this or not, I’d still expect people to be unhappy If, I as a webmaster, changed the basic onus of the agreement that they signed up for. I mean, hey, I don’t think Taco Bell charges shit, yet I might take umbrage at them charging the same price (outta my ass, doncha know) for a teeny cup of sour cream that one could find for the 16 oz. variety at Wal*Mart. Now, that may have to do with ‘cultural expectations’ and I’ll indeed take my lumps. However, that doesn’t negate my right to point out how wrong it is (or for anyone in the reverse situation). Just sayin’ again.
