Advertisments on Illidrama

[Rombus]

Illidrama Members,

I've decided that I'm going to experiment with adding Infolinks advertisements to the site. You're probably familiar with this type of ad; it will randomly replace words on a page with a link and relevant ad given when hovered. The goal of this is to help cover some of the expense of hosting this site. We didn't do this in the past (stopped, rather) because Google AdSense banned us randomly (seriously, they wouldn't tell us why) and Sung had another site that was ad supported generating income anyway.

Goals


Keep the ads as unobtrusive as possible.
Prevent site slowdown. This means that if the ad network has a dramatic impact on site performance I will drop it.
NOT plaster the site with ads. I have no desire to do this, and you have no desire to see it. There will not be block ads, header ads, etc., etc. The only ads will be text replacement ads, which I fully believe are as passive as you can get.


In this I'm asking for your support. I'm more than willing to take suggestions on how ads are displayed as well. Over the next week I'll be experimenting with placement as such.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns feel free to post here.

- Rombus

[Donzia]

first

[Rombus]

Oh, and you can click the "X" next to the notice to make it go away after you've read this. :p

[Sakib]

Illidrama Members,

I've decided that I'm going to experiment with adding Infolinks advertisements to the site. You're probably familiar with this type of ad; it will randomly replace words on a page with a link and relevant ad given when hovered. The goal of this is to help cover some of the expense of hosting this site. We didn't do this in the past (stopped, rather) because Google AdSense banned us randomly (seriously, they wouldn't tell us why) and Sung had another site that was ad supported generating income anyway.

Goals


Keep the ads as unobtrusive as possible.
Prevent site slowdown. This means that if the ad network has a dramatic impact on site performance I will drop it.
NOT plaster the site with ads. I have no desire to do this, and you have no desire to see it. There will not be block ads, header ads, etc., etc. The only ads will be text replacement ads, which I fully believe are as passive as you can get.


In this I'm asking for your support. I'm more than willing to take suggestions on how ads are displayed as well. Over the next week I'll be experimenting with placement as such.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns feel free to post here.

- Rombus

Open up donations, or maybe even go with yahoo adds they still pay a bit better then google and its not in beta anymore its public.

[Koorban]

What about donations? How much would you need for like a years worth of running the site? You could always make like a goal indicator too which might incourage people to help you reach the goal.

I'd have no problems throwing 20 bucks or something at you to help keep this place going.

[Rombus]

I'll probably take donations down the road. That was an option, but I want to get more member perks coded before I do (FYI, username color will always be a perk available to everyone, and those with previous perks will be grandfathered, etc.). I have like 3/5 perks I want to offer coded right now, but it's not high priority (working on a style update).

I applied for Yahoo ads a couple of months back but didn't hear anything. I did some research and this ad service apparently pays well per impression and click. We'll see how it goes. If it's not worth the time or it causes issues I definitely won't keep it.

It's roughly $1200 / year to host the site. Granted, I also host the HUK / TI sites on this server, but there's zero income and a fraction of the traffic.

Edit: To clarify donations; I will do it eventually (and of course ad free will be a perk of all levels) but I want to offer rewards before I do it. Nothing major, but small things like name icons, colored titles, PM box increase, custom emoticon, etc. Just need to stop being lazy and code it. FORTUNATELY I'm working all weekend... maybe I'll do it then. :p

[Donzia]

next up monthly fees to ban users from your threads.

[Camulos]

Ill PM you my address so you can send me my cut for suggesting this months ago when you didnt want to do it, Charlie.

[Rombus]

next up monthly fees to ban users from your threads.
You laugh. I was talking about it to a friend at work. His reply was "you should charge a fee for a week ban, you'll be a millionaire." He's probably right.

PRO TIP: Not going to do that. :D

[Koorban]

I'll probably take donations down the road. That was an option, but I want to get more member perks coded before I do (FYI, username color will always be a perk available to everyone, and those with previous perks will be grandfathered, etc.). I have like 3/5 perks I want to offer coded right now, but it's not high priority (working on a style update).

I applied for Yahoo ads a couple of months back but didn't hear anything. I did some research and this ad service apparently pays well per impression and click. We'll see how it goes. If it's not worth the time or it causes issues I definitely won't keep it.

It's roughly $1200 / year to host the site. Granted, I also host the HUK / TI sites on this server, but there's zero income and a fraction of the traffic.

Edit: To clarify donations; I will do it eventually (and of course ad free will be a perk of all levels) but I want to offer rewards before I do it. Nothing major, but small things like name icons, colored titles, PM box increase, custom emoticon, etc. Just need to stop being lazy and code it. FORTUNATELY I'm working all weekend... maybe I'll do it then. :p

Wait why is the HUK site still even up haha?

[Donzia]

You laugh. I was talking about it to a friend at work. His reply was "you should charge a fee for a week ban, you'll be a millionaire." He's probably right.

PRO TIP: Not going to do that. :D

At least you've got morals, proval's children need their college fund.

[Rombus]

Wait why is the HUK site still even up haha?
Have you been there lately you tool? It's reasonably active. We use it for DotA and other shit. COMMUNICATION TOOLS, BUDDY!

[Rombus]

Also, I really appreciate the requests for donation information from everyone that has. I'll probably accept them down the road once I get some benefits for you in.

[Koorban]

Have you been there lately you tool? It's reasonably active. We use it for DotA and other shit. COMMUNICATION TOOLS, BUDDY!

No haha I should check it out. I just figured it went by the wayside with WAR. Would it be cheaper to just streamline those forums into the TI boards?

[Donzia]

still no explaination for darkvag

[Sakib]

I'll probably take donations down the road. That was an option, but I want to get more member perks coded before I do (FYI, username color will always be a perk available to everyone, and those with previous perks will be grandfathered, etc.). I have like 3/5 perks I want to offer coded right now, but it's not high priority (working on a style update).

I applied for Yahoo ads a couple of months back but didn't hear anything. I did some research and this ad service apparently pays well per impression and click. We'll see how it goes. If it's not worth the time or it causes issues I definitely won't keep it.

It's roughly $1200 / year to host the site. Granted, I also host the HUK / TI sites on this server, but there's zero income and a fraction of the traffic.

Edit: To clarify donations; I will do it eventually (and of course ad free will be a perk of all levels) but I want to offer rewards before I do it. Nothing major, but small things like name icons, colored titles, PM box increase, custom emoticon, etc. Just need to stop being lazy and code it. FORTUNATELY I'm working all weekend... maybe I'll do it then. :p

Well considering u host the TI site putting it on uberguilds network shit will bring it a small amount in I know they don't pay that well but they pay.

[Rombus]

No haha I should check it out. I just figured it went by the wayside with WAR. Would it be cheaper to just streamline those forums into the TI boards?
I own the dedicated server, so no it has no impact on the price.

[Belial]

Just take note of who donates, and maybe ad free can be a perk everyone gets if you know what I mean

[Rombus]

still no explaination for darkvag
Gone!


Well considering u host the TI site putting it on uberguilds network shit will bring it a small amount in I know they don't pay that well but they pay.
I considered it.

[Rombus]

Just take note of who donates, and maybe ad free can be a perk everyone gets if you know what I mean
When I do perks it'll be a tiered donation system. Anyone that donates would get ad free + other benefits of course.

[Camulos]

I will donate 20 dollars for a picture of Danielle.

[Galir]

I will donate 20 dollars for a picture of Danielle.

Make it a bikini pic and I'll throw in 40. Also going to need her digits depending on how she looks

[Disarray]

honestly, slap adds on every post, or just keep em text based, whatever pays the bills I don't care. I can just scroll through them. as long as they're not popups every 3 seconds, do whatever you gota do

[Camulos]

I have like 6 inches of just black on both sides of my screen why not throw some ads in that space if its not getting used?

[Rizen]

I fucking HATE these types of ads, just FYI. It makes browsing the page incredibly annoying when you are trying to cut and paste various responses.

[Koorban]

I have various credit cards with far to large limits. We can keep Illidrama running for years!

[elm]

http://i39.tinypic.com/jr9n6g.png

Sorry for the crappy shop, I am not a wizard.

[Sakib]

Gone!


I considered it.

reconsider it and do it that and the donations should be fine.

[Centre]

honestly, slap adds on every post, or just keep em text based, whatever pays the bills I don't care. I can just scroll through them. as long as they're not popups every 3 seconds, do whatever you gota do

Same.

Ads aren't really a big deal. Thanks for telling us before you put them in.

[Rombus]

I fucking HATE these types of ads, just FYI. It makes browsing the page incredibly annoying when you are trying to cut and paste various responses.
How does it affect copy and pasting? I guess if you're pasting into a WYSIWYG area it may, but you can just switch the editor mode momentarily if that's an issue. You can also use multi-quote, which is endlessly superior to plain copy and pasting anyway.

[Rombus]

reconsider it and do it that and the donations should be fine.
Probably won't reconsider TBH. I'm not a fan of the uberguilds network for a few reasons I'd rather not get into.

[Stanos]

can you just do regular ads so I can adblock them and be on my way

edit: these types of ads are fucking annoying and reek of really amateur websites in my opinion. it definitely wouldn't be the route I'd choose.

[Rombus]

can you just do regular ads so I can adblock them and be on my way

edit: these types of ads are fucking annoying and reek of really amateur websites in my opinion. it definitely wouldn't be the route I'd choose.
I can't do AdSense, and Yahoo never accepted my application. Can you offer an alternative, or explain why these types of ads are "really fucking annoying" and "reek of a really amateur website?" A lot of major sites use them, because they're arguably the least obtrusive.

[Stanos]

No I really can't which is why I don't own a website.

They seem really amateurish mainly because when I look something up on google, every shady ass website has that adsense thing and while you're randomly browsing that shit pops up while you're skimming. It's honestly fucking annoying as hell and if I had a better solution for you I'd be shouting it from the rooftops.

Either way I'll still read the website so I guess my opinion really doesn't matter????

[Rombus]

A lot of major news sites also have the same type of advertising though. I mean, to be fair a lot of shady websites have Yahoo / AdSense on them too. Like I said, I'm going to try it out and see how it goes. I don't want browsing to be annoying, so I'm definitely open to suggestions. If I find it's annoying I won't hesitate to shut it down and look for something else. I'd love to have AdSense or something like it back, but ya.

[Rombus]

I found another good ad provider that's highly rated. I submitted an application, so we'll see what happens. They use a number of traditional ads and do not have link replacement ads. We'll see what happens.

[Yarikh]

I have like 6 inches of just black
Glad I kept on reading...

[Koorban]

Glad I kept on reading...

Yea...6 inches of black would be like a 3 year old niglet.

[Arkanoid]

If you have firefox,
Get this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
Then subscribe to the filter EasyList USA. Boom, no more infolinks. Or any other type of ad, really.

[Maxsul]

No idea this site costs 100 bucks a month to run, SURELY you can get enough donations to cover some of that, but I would guess most folks would donate once, then never again. Illidrama telethon imo.

[Arkanoid]

There's gotta be a woman or two around here who can rassle us up a bake sale.

[Rombus]

If you have firefox,
Get this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
Then subscribe to the filter EasyList USA. Boom, no more infolinks. Or any other type of ad, really.
I've never used ad block to block ads on websites I frequent unless they're annoying (see: noisy mosquito ads). Personally (and I say this with NO BIAS AT ALL) unless I'm paying for it I'll support the site and let the ads fly.

[Arkanoid]

I've never used ad block to block ads on websites I frequent unless they're annoying (see: noisy mosquito ads). Personally (and I say this with NO BIAS AT ALL) unless I'm paying for it I'll support the site and let the ads fly.

Well once I have ads blocked on a computer then the thought of unblocking certain sites' ads doesn't really cross my mind, since I sorta forget they even exist, lol. But yeah, that makes sense. Might as well support the site if you're not willing to throw down a donation.

[eXiled]

i'll start selling dick pics for $20 a piece to support the site

edit: sold out, camulos bought them all

[Koorban]

Do you actually know how much revenue is generated from AD's Rombus? Because if you create a goal meter that we can see between donations and AD's it may help people donate more to require less ads or none all together.

[Stanos]

serious post I'd probably pay a flat 10 bucks for gold membership

[Rombus]

Do you actually know how much revenue is generated from AD's Rombus? Because if you create a goal meter that we can see between donations and AD's it may help people donate more to require less ads or none all together.
When we had Google ads on the site (for 2 months...) we got around $130.00 a month.


serious post I'd probably pay a flat 10 bucks for gold membership
All tiers of the supporter shit would remove ads, the lowest I wrote up was $10.00 for a year.

[Ryuudo]

So I typed something out then noticed your Javascript X button you were asking about in that other thread so I clicked it. Ironically, as I mentioned in that thread, i hate JS postback persistence and guess what, my post was lost :D

Anyways, I don't think anyone is going to be against you doing what you need to prevent this site from eating into your personal expenses anymore than it already has. I would gladly throw down some money for a no-ad site...especially if you are going to get those hover link ones, I really hate those (especially when they popup the window and it blocks all the text you were trying to read around it!).

[Rombus]

I tried to find a pop-up link system that wasn't intrusive. This one is pretty good, the footprint is small until you hover over, and you have a couple seconds to move out and it instantly disappears. It's not annoying like the one network that has has a persistent moment, then fades.

[Galir]

You should start selling research chemicals on a password protected area of the site. It's a legal grey area and you'll rake in plenty of money. I can give you a recipe for meth if you want

[Donzia]

rofl son get moderated

[nazgull]

As long as they aren't infected with viruses or porn, I could give a shit about the advertisements. GET UR MONEY DAWG!!



Didn't you do this prior, having them in the middle?


edit: I see Galir gets owned yet again for being a dipshit.

[Mnementh]

ohh boy they're up. Jumped on for my morning forums surfing and noticed green links everywhere!!


edit:

ok its not that bad. There was I think a total of like 5-6 links on the main page.

Rombus how do those work?? Is it just if they're there they make you money or do people actually have to click those links before you get anything?

[Rombus]

Oh hey, they are. They just randomly replace text with the links. I'll have to see what kind of customization they do. You'll notice that you can hover over them and they'll instantly pop up and disappear... so they're not horribly annoying. Money is generated per impression with more per click.

[Rombus]

Changed the link color to this color to better suit the site. Also, reduced the number of links that will appear per page from 12 to 8. Won't take affect right away though. I also changed the links to a single underline for the moment, just to see if it meshes better with the design. Obviously normal links are orange, so you can clearly tell the difference.

[EricDravn]

This is far less intrusive than some sites I've visited. One site was literally a few inches of ads on all 4 sides with a little bit of content snug in the middle. IMDB regularly puts up ads that cover most of the window (which gets disabled in Firefox whew).

Do what you gotta do to negate the costs man.

[Mnementh]

Yeah they're not all that bad since they only pop up when you mouse over them.

The change in color is a good idea and would make them stand out less than the green.

[Rombus]

Also, they pop up enough above the text where it shouldn't create an issue for people skimming with their cursor (hopefully!). Additionally, copy / pasting in a WYSIWYG box w/ editing on results in formatted text, not a link. Not bad!

[Mnementh]

When I see it isn't to shabby and the popups aren't bad either. I do however agree with the guy before (don't feel like looking for his name) that it sorta gives off a amateurish look or not quite as professional/neat as it used to.

Obviously this forum isn't something for a International Cooperation or something so that really shouldn't be a concern but I'm just voicing my opinion on it.

edit:

However if it makes you a few dollars, or I believe you said the google adds were $130.00?, then that could not only alleviate the costs of the forum and other aspects you are hosting but it could cover it entirely with more room for expansion for future related topics/games.

[Rombus]

Well, if I decide to stay with this provider I'll customize it a bit more. Mainly with restricting the ad inserts to posts only, and not things like nav links and the forum home, etc. I think that's what has the biggest impact on appearance, plus the default green color (pending change at the moment).

[Elysia]

International Cooperation.

really?






but yeah the green shit looks like shit. tell me how much to pay to make it stop.

[Mnementh]

Well, if I decide to stay with this provider I'll customize it a bit more. Mainly with restricting the ad inserts to posts only, and not things like nav links and the forum home, etc. I think that's what has the biggest impact on appearance, plus the default green color (pending change at the moment).

If you are able to prevent it from showing up on the home page I think that would be great. Thus far on the posts I don't notice it as much but on the home page I see a bunch of green links which makes it look sloppy.

I'd like to see the color and single underline change when it goes through. I have a feeling it would look a bit neater and not stand out as much.


Originally Posted by Mnementh View Post
International Cooperation.

Originally Posted by Elysia:
really?

Sigh :( typos ftw! Corporation**!

Edit:

BTW, I love how when I post up and the page refreshes all I see is your "the green shit" highlighted and underlined in green :P

[Sirius]

HEY HOW ABOUT SINCE YOU'RE MAKING BANK OFF ILLIDRAMA ADVERTISEMENTS NOW AND U EVEN QUIT UR JOB U CAN FINALLY BUY ME DINNER?????

[Rombus]

If you are able to prevent it from showing up on the home page I think that would be great. Thus far on the posts I don't notice it as much but on the home page I see a bunch of green links which makes it look sloppy.
Yeah, I can easily prevent it from showing or not showing wherever I want. However, it's direct template edits and if I decide not to keep this provider I don't want to have to undo them.

[Rombus]

HEY HOW ABOUT SINCE YOU'RE MAKING BANK OFF ILLIDRAMA ADVERTISEMENTS NOW AND U EVEN QUIT UR JOB U CAN FINALLY BUY ME DINNER?????
I can cook you dinner or we can go out for sushi. Your choice.

[Rombus]

Link changes are in.

[Sakib]

WTF is this? every damn link leads to http://www.americanabest.com/search33.php?keyword=left%204%20dead&source=AMPron103_47775767 a site full of google ads or info.com

[Rombus]

I guess they're an advertiser on the network? I've never seen a page like that until you pointed it out.

[Mnementh]

Yeah that blue with a single underline works well. It doesn't stand out and look sloppy. If it works out well for you with the adds I'd say keep it cause with that change its good.

[Rombus]

Turns link generation off on the forum home page and the nav bar.

[Mnementh]

Without them on the home page I don't think people would really notice at all. When you're looking at 8 links per page that is nothing when you have 10-15 posts with a few links tossed in there.

I think you made the right choices on the design and placement.

[Galir]

Links are ugly and obtrusive, consider yourself adblocked.

[Belial]

So with signatures and links only showing a set amount of times per page 40 ppp in the only way to go

[Rombus]

Links are ugly and obtrusive, consider yourself adblocked.
You're ugly and obtrusive, consider your perks blocked.

[Galir]

You're ugly and obtrusive, consider your perks blocked.

I've got seniority, consider yourself a dick.

[Rombus]

Brah, there is no seniority when you're abusing power.

[Stanos]

guess not noticeable as I thought and less obtrusive then led to believe, good work

[Koboh]

I will pay 1 year if I can ban any one person of my choice.

Edit: Actually I don't want to ban anyone, I want to choose their title under their name and make their signature picture and they are forced to keep it for the duration of the year.

[Rombus]

I will pay 1 year if I can ban any one person of my choice.

Edit: Actually I don't want to ban anyone, I want to choose their title under their name and make their signature picture and they are forced to keep it for the duration of the year.
Define 1 year.

/evil

[nazgull]

Brah, there is no seniority when I am the supreme power.



Fixed.

[Koboh]

Define 1 year.

/evil

I year = A set amount for 365 days of operational expenses.

I believe you mentioned its about $1200 a year, so Id set up a transfer of your choosing for $100 a month.

Terms are I get to pick one person who will have to have a signature and title of my choosing as long as I'm funding the site, it won't be you, but anyone else is fair game.

[Arkanoid]

Oh snap. That deal sounds too good to pass up, however morally ambiguous it might be. Your days are numbered... Elysia?


1. Catch a football from 10 feet away. Check.
2. Dunk a basketball. Check.
3. Throw a regulation college football 55 yards. Check.
4. Elysia still dodging my question and creating even more ridiculous comments because he his suffering from syphlis and his brain is rotting away. CHECK.

[Koboh]

I wouldn't do it to Elysia, it would be like throwing balls at a retarded kids face in dodgeball.

[Koorban]

I year = A set amount for 365 days of operational expenses.

I believe you mentioned its about $1200 a year, so Id set up a transfer of your choosing for $100 a month.

Terms are I get to pick one person who will have to have a signature and title of my choosing as long as I'm funding the site, it won't be you, but anyone else is fair game.

You'd front 1200 to pay for the site for a year for some executive powers?

You are far too kind haha.

[Koboh]

Well $1200 isn't exactly going to break me, and I don't want executive powers, just 1 executive act of cruelty.

[Koorban]

Well $1200 isn't exactly going to break me, and I don't want executive powers, just 1 executive act of cruelty.

Well Mr Moneybags how about you fund my alcohol expenditures too!

[Sakib]

I would prolly fund that amount but not for the reason he stated above but rombus knows what I really want :D

[Rombus]

I year = A set amount for 365 days of operational expenses.

I believe you mentioned its about $1200 a year, so Id set up a transfer of your choosing for $100 a month.

Terms are I get to pick one person who will have to have a signature and title of my choosing as long as I'm funding the site, it won't be you, but anyone else is fair game.
This could be potentially amazing.

[fora]

Well Mr Moneybags how about you fund my alcohol expenditures too!



this5

[Koorban]

This could be potentially amazing.

It could become Koboh's Downsyndrome pick of the week. Every week he can pick a lucky victim!

[Galir]

What a waste of money. How about you buy me some fucking coke if you want to burn money

[Koorban]

What a waste of money. How about you buy me some fucking coke if you want to burn money

Only if you take all $1200 worth of it at once.

[Koboh]

Ive wasted money on much less noble of acts then this. I do a good deed by helping out Illidrama, and I get to humiliate someone, what could be better? I can figure a way to write it off as a business expense anyway.

[Galir]

Only if you take all $1200 worth of it at once.

Define "at once". You can only fit so much in your nasal cavity.


Ive wasted money on much less noble of acts then this. I do a good deed by helping out Illidrama, and I get to humiliate someone, what could be better? I can figure a way to write it off as a business expense anyway.

See my above post.

[Nami]

I need a TV. Hello, Koboh!

[Koboh]

You can't snort $1200, you don't have the intestinal fortitude for such an act.

[Inspectadeck]

You can't snort $1200, you don't have the intestinal fortitude for such an act.

Looking for Intestinal Fortitude? get more information now

[Galir]

You can't snort $1200, you don't have the intestinal fortitude for such an act.

I'll do it on cam in under 6 hours.

[Rombus]

So I was thinking about this a bit last night and weighing the options. I came to the conclusion I would be a retard to not take you up on your offer in exchange for a little fun on your part. It's really a win/win situation for everyone, ads are yesterday's news and the monthly bill for the site is effectively gone. The only thing I have to ask (as Nami mentioned) is that what you decide on be safe for work.

PM me with any questions you have and such. You can decide who to give the title / signature to however you want, I'll code it in so it can't be changed. :p

Side benefit: this could be amusing.

[fora]

I dont see any advertisements on the site anyway, just gotta be awesome enough and they don't intrude your internets

[Koboh]

So I was thinking about this a bit last night and weighing the options. I came to the conclusion I would be a retard to not take you up on your offer in exchange for a little fun on your part. It's really a win/win situation for everyone, ads are yesterday's news and the monthly bill for the site is effectively gone. The only thing I have to ask (as Nami mentioned) is that what you decide on be safe for work.

PM me with any questions you have and such. You can decide who to give the title / signature to however you want, I'll code it in so it can't be changed. :p

Side benefit: this could be amusing.

NSFW could put a damper on my ideas, but I completely understand that, I will need roughly 2 weeks to get ideas and see how they come out so we can figure out a start date for sometime during the 1st week of July. I can't in good conscious hand over money before I have something that will make me laugh everytime I see it.

[Rombus]

If you're worried about it becoming boring after awhile we could always spice it up and give you the option to change it once a month, RoFL.

[Rolock]

changing it once a month? what is this, tikvah's tampons?

[Sakib]

If you're worried about it becoming boring after awhile we could always spice it up and give you the option to change it once a month, RoFL.

I will be immune to this correct, well Vas and I since our names are at the bottom with credits :D

[Koboh]

I will be immune to this correct, well Vas and I since our names are at the bottom with credits :D

immunity for anyone is a deal breaker.

[Rombus]

Yeah, no immunity, sorry! I don't even consider myself immune. :p

[Stanos]

only sig/tar changes? You should've asked to ban someone too

[Rombus]

Banning isn't really fun, since while it may annoy them they can just create a new account.

[Stanos]

You don't perma? Well sorry for reporting jogar I guess

[Rombus]

No I perma... but it's like impossible to keep someone out that really wants in. If they're super annoying I IP ban, but still everyone's IP almost always changes eventually. =/ Not to mention unless someone is incredibly dumb if they really want to post they just have to not make an obvious name (DrJogarMD).

[Cheps]

if i hadnt gotten banned and continued trolling until now im almost certainit would have been me

[Koorban]

if i hadnt gotten banned and continued trolling until now im almost certainit would have been me

When did you return!?

[Camulos]

Let him change it every two weeks because Koboh is a nice guy and I like him.

Also he plays/played baseball, a real mans sport.

[Nami]

let him change it whenever he pleases if he's going to throw down that much cash

[Stanos]

yeah no shit for $1200 I would've asked for admin provided I didn't abuse it horribly

[crafty]

I tried to click your ads at work to generate some revenue and this is what I got,


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Your request to URL "http://clicks.smartbizsearch.com/xtr_new?q=college+football%26enc=WwEXxZp6GLM5Zpljbu/5aWOD4GTMqt8gLSgQI29SXZ0=" has been blocked by TrustedSource. The Web reputation score of this URL is 127, which is not allowed by your administrator at this time.

That is from a McAfee web filter which I haven't seen before. Totally different from our standard filter. Oh well

[Donzia]

Waiting for rt2.infolinks.com...

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[Rombus]

I took them down, the frustration they're adding aren't worth what they're covering.

I'm almost done creating all of the features for contributors, I'll post more info by the end of the week. Hopefully donations + Koboh will cover some (or all!) of site costs, etc. Fuck advertisements.

[Nami]

I took them down, the frustration they're adding aren't worth what they're covering.

I'm almost done creating all of the features for contributors, I'll post more info by the end of the week. Hopefully donations + Koboh will cover some (or all!) of site costs, etc. Fuck advertisements.

well no shit, I could have told you that before you wasted time

[Rombus]

You can't tell which programs are and aren't worth it without wasting time. AdSense was worth the time, and Yahoo probably would have been too. A lot of people said good things about InfoLinks too.

[Mnementh]

I took them down, the frustration they're adding aren't worth what they're covering.

I'm almost done creating all of the features for contributors, I'll post more info by the end of the week. Hopefully donations + Koboh will cover some (or all!) of site costs, etc. Fuck advertisements.

haha I didn't have any issues with them but I suppose some people are more picky than I am.

Shoot me over a pm when you setup the donations.

[Nami]

I've never heard anything good about InfoLinks

[Rombus]

I found a lot of positive reviews before I went with them. The problem is I'm sick of seeing "waiting on..." etc. Nothing bad about the product at all beyond that.

[Milli]

Never have seen an ad on illidrama :)

[Koboh]

Rombus shoot me a PM with how you are setting up the Illidrama donation fund and I know its going to be Paypal, but God I hate paypal and I'm hoping you choose something better.

[Sakib]

Rombus shoot me a PM with how you are setting up the Illidrama donation fund and I know its going to be Paypal, but God I hate paypal and I'm hoping you choose something better.

There is nothing better to choose from paypal does it all fees may be a bit much but I can't think of another merchant that one can trust besides the one site that I used to xfer domains with which I can't remember its name but takes 15% of the money xfer.

[Rombus]

Resurrecting this topic. Support from the community has been, well, lackluster given the traffic we generate and the amount of people that said they'd rather donate than see advertisements. I'll likely be bringing advertisements on some level back shortly, anyone that donated will, of course, have the option to disable advertisements in their perks.

[Sahn]

Resurrecting this topic. Support from the community has been, well, lackluster given the traffic we generate and the amount of people that said they'd rather donate than see advertisements. I'll likely be bringing advertisements on some level back shortly, anyone that donated will, of course, have the option to disable advertisements in their perks.

It's kind of sad. I mean, $10 bucks isn't that much and it would have only taken like 20 people at that donation rate to reach to goal.

[Rombus]

Well, there's still the monthly $79, which I don't mind paying for but offsetting that any way possible is always nice. :p