SVT
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Post by SVT on Dec 20, 2010 20:37:45 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure banner ads and such can be added to this forum, it's just the forum is new and they haven't been added yet. But if this doesn't end up being a permanent forum with a lot of traffic, it wouldn't be worth it much anyway.
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so1970
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Post by so1970 on Dec 22, 2010 7:47:48 GMT -5
here i'll add a little more traffic, i hope this catches on. but except for the ones that are coming over from the old site how do people hear about this site.
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8 Bit WWBG
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Post by 8 Bit WWBG on Dec 22, 2010 13:46:53 GMT -5
Actually, this is a very slippery slope. Proboards is free and moonbeam can take on as much or as little hassle as desired. I've been on forums where the second post of EVERY thread was from an ad-bot that the site owner used to make money for the site. It was a little irritating, but I know that bandwidth (for that site, anyway) wasn't free. Now, if we decided to upgrade to the ad-free, paid version of proboards, and maybe even get a proper domain, a few ads might be in order as long as they weren't intrusive. But I never liked how on MSN boards, the top 1/5th and left 1/5th of the screen was taken up by junk. I'm lucky that at work I have a widescreen monitor that does something like 1600x1080, but on my home laptop of 1280x800, life isn't as rosy  |
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Post by robbase on Dec 22, 2010 14:28:43 GMT -5
where are the emoticons?
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The Virginian
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Post by The Virginian on Dec 22, 2010 17:15:48 GMT -5
I like it like it is but would understand if banners were added. Someone has to pay for this and with the community growing so big it will use a lot of bandwidth.
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8 Bit WWBG
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Post by 8 Bit WWBG on Dec 22, 2010 17:17:04 GMT -5
Proboards allows you to buy "ad-free credits". $7 for every 50,000 page views. I could see burning through that very quickly. I don't think there are any other proboards features worth paying for.
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Post by mtshastawriter on Dec 26, 2010 22:54:25 GMT -5
I actually prefer the mode where no one is really profiting off our thoughts and opinions. I always thought it was kind of dumb that the MSN forums were "hosted" by people who never posted on them, for the most part....
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Post by dianartemis on Dec 28, 2010 18:00:58 GMT -5
ditto mt
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2010 18:51:25 GMT -5
I was on a travel board that got shut down by the sponsoring site. We migrated to a site similar to proboards and keep the board ad-free by periodically contributing some money. It's relatively painless; one guy sometimes picks up the whole cost (might be $50/year) because he claims he gets business from it. (He owns a map store.)
There's no free lunch. If we need to ante up something to keep ads out, I bet there are enough generous people in this group that we could do it.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Dec 28, 2010 21:56:29 GMT -5
The ads will appear at the top of the screen, at least that's where they are on another proboards board I'm a part of. I'm sure we all have enough willpower to ignore the ads at the top of the screen.  Sometimes, proboards will match the ad to some recurring word in a popular thread. That can make things interesting. |
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Dec 29, 2010 12:35:50 GMT -5
I don't remember side ads on MSN but the top banner ones were driving me nuts the last month or so. The link I used to navigate was thisclose to the ads and if I misjudged by a faction of a millimeter, the Ford ads would open up. I love my Fords but since I'm not getting a new car for the next 5-10 years, it's wasted on me...
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