# What do you think of the ads at the Fathom board? Would they work here?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-ads-at-the-fathom-board-would-they-work-here/244017
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 7, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-ads-at-the-fathom-board-would-they-work-here/244017 "2004-05-07T15:18:43Z")
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### Author:  [@Fanny\_May](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fanny_May)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-ads-at-the-fathom-board-would-they-work-here/244017/1 "2004-05-07T15:18:43Z")
Click on any thread and the ads appear on the right edge.
They seem pretty unobtrusive to me.
What do you think?
[OpalCat’s Fathom board fff.fathom.org](http://fff.fathom.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?forumid=10)
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### Author:  [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-ads-at-the-fathom-board-would-they-work-here/244017/2 "2004-05-07T15:33:34Z")
Why would we want them here if there are no ads here in the first place? I paid my $4.95, I don’t want no ads. You get them there like we do on NADS because its free.
What a stupid thread.
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### Author:  [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-ads-at-the-fathom-board-would-they-work-here/244017/3 "2004-05-07T15:40:03Z")
SDMB is one of the VERY few places on the net that I can go that doesn’t have ads. I paid my 5 bits of silver, and ads are not what are needed.
Whats next? Ads on the bases?
:wally
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### Author:  [@TheMadHun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMadHun)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-ads-at-the-fathom-board-would-they-work-here/244017/4 "2004-05-07T16:00:46Z")
> [@Fanny May](#):
>
> Click on any thread and the ads appear on the right edge.
> They seem pretty unobtrusive to me.
> What do you think?
>
> [OpalCat’s Fathom board fff.fathom.org](http://fff.fathom.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?forumid=10)
I was always for ads over fees. It’s the way the rest of the World Wide Web works.
Fees are an AOL invention.
Sure I paid this year, but I’d love to not have to pay next year again and the next year again. I’m here for the long haul, after all.
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### Author:  [@Fanny\_May](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fanny_May)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2004, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-ads-at-the-fathom-board-would-they-work-here/244017/5 "2004-05-07T16:33:00Z")
**Moderator, please close this thread for me.**
Somebody moved it into the Pit.
It was not a complaint thread. I just noticed that after SDMB added fees, Fathom had added ads. Yes, I was thinking of replacing future fees, but I can see it’s still a sore point and I don’t want to reopen the pay-to-post debate. It can wait until next year.
I agree with everyone above, it was a stupid idea, we already paid.
I bet the ads will be gone by next year as well, so it’s moot.
There’s nothing more to say. No argument with me. I was wrong. Mea Culpa.
Now I hope that’s settled.
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### Author:  [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2004, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-ads-at-the-fathom-board-would-they-work-here/244017/6 "2004-05-07T17:36:39Z")
If I remember properly, the SDMB isn’t that attractive a place for advertisers, so they might be reluctant to pay enough to be worth their while here. The SDMB tends to get a lot of hits by the same group of people over and over again, while an advertiser would like to get a ton of different people hitting once or twice instead.
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### Author:  [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2004, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-ads-at-the-fathom-board-would-they-work-here/244017/7 "2004-05-07T17:43:33Z")
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Closed at the request of the OP.
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