MSNBC music download add that won't go away

The BBQ Pit
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Since it will likely be shortly deleted by a low-level feedback grunt, unless said grunt finds it amusing to pass it on to higher management circles, I thought I would share with you the little piece of feedback I sent MSNBC’s website comments form. Please feel free to borrow it, either in part or in whole, should you feel inspired to share a similar opinion on those damn adds-that-block-your-view-and-dont-go-away-for-a-while

I hope whoever made the decision to have that damned misbegotten add for your music dowload appear in the format it currently does on MSNBC, where it obscures the screen regardless of scrolling for too long a time, has the worst day, the worst week, and the worst month of their lives. I hope their car gets towed in the middle of a thunderstorm, their dog gets fleas, their income taxes get audited, their team loses in the 7th game of the world series,their goldfish die, their kids get chicken pox in time for thanksgiving, and that their boss gets really annoyed with them and gives them a really bad assignement, and sends them on a business trip where they have to fly on a Russian airline, over the arctic. Then perhaps they woudl come close to understanding the annoyance they have inflicted with this decision. Since I cannot bring any of this about, I will have to content myself with deleting MSNBC from my quick-links and ever visiting your site for a very long time. Goodbye. This type of advertizing is the most customer hostile, alienating, patronizing, condescending, infuriating, viewer-repelling, insult that would shame a zoophylic-bukake-porn website. Shame on you for stooping this low.
Well, whaddaya know… It *does * work… I’m feeling better already.

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I bet spelling “ad” correctly and giving a concise argument probably might have helped your letter, you know, actually get read by someone with any leverage in the matter.

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Sigh… on second look, you’re right about the spelling of “ad” in that there is no double-d in advertisement. This bugs me because bad grammar and spelling are one of my own pet peeves. My problem is that English is my second language, (French is first) and I get hopelessly confused about a few things, notably double consonants, s or z, and capitalization.

I’m not quite sure how to express the level of aggravation I was feeling in a “concise” argument, though. This seems to have all come out in one big gushing rant. Perhaps if I have said “arrrrrgh! Stop it!” it would have been more concise. Not as expressive, perhaps, but certainly more concise.

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Each of those MSNBC page-covering ads has a little “Close” box on it, so stop trying to scroll down or wait them out. One well aimed mouse click, and the ad is gone.

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That’s what I do, but they do intentionally make the close button as tiny and hard-to-see as possible, I’m sure. Why? Because then in order to find the friggin’ button, you have to scrutinize the goddamn ad. I have made a solemn vow to never EVER buy anything advertised on one of these obnoxious ads.

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Thanks for confirming that. I admit I’m reluctant to click on those, because I’ve fallen for those fake “close” buttons that just take you to the ad’s click-through site.