Information about upcoming advertisements in this forum

[Antvasima]

Hello.

I just want to inform our members regarding that currently the running costs for this site are covered by my entrepeneur friend, but in order to financially support it in the long run, so the forum can sustain itself, we will have to start to host advertisements soon.

Nothing has been set in stone regarding exactly how this will be applied yet, but we will most likely begin to show advertisements sometime in January.

 

[Crabwhale]

This sounds excellent.

 

[Jasonsith]

Which sources will we accept advertisements from? And... will that affect any position of views in here?
Basically the most important thing to concern.
Like, will the sponsors be just happy to post periodic banners in our this forum and nothing more? Or will they start to "give opinions" on how the site and other profiles stand?

 

[Antvasima]

We will just use regular large and clean automatic advertisement services, and that's it. They will not make demands regarding our statistics.

 

[Oliver_de_jesus]

As long as it's not an annoying amount of ads and they pop up suddenly everything will be fine.

i just hope that the forum does not end up being paid, I do not want monetary problems

 

[AKM sama]

i just hope that the forum does not end up being paid, I do not want monetary problems

If by paid you mean you'll have to compulsorily pay a certain amount to post in this forum, then no, you don't need to worry about that.

 

[Crabwhale]

I'm guessing we're only doing quality, respectable sources? I'm not particularly inclined on seeing every last kind of garbage be advertised here.

 

[Antvasima]

I have been told that we will only use highly respectable sources, and if people have legitimate complaints, I will tell the people in charge of this about it, so there are adjustments.

 

[Colonel_Krukov]

I'm curious to know how the adds are going to be placed. If they're just adds that don't overlap with the forum, that'll be okay, I just don't want things being metaphorically shoved in my face.

 

[Antvasima]

I do not know yet, but think that they will likely be placed at the top of the pages as usual.

 

[Crabwhale]

This is great then.

 

[Antvasima]

Well, it will be a bit distracting, but that is unavoidable. We have to get the forum to go around financially.

 

[TOAAPRESENCE1]

"Single milf in your area"
Coming soon~

 

[Crabwhale]

pls no

 

[Antvasima]

I have been told that we will only use highly respectable sources, and if people have legitimate complaints, I will tell the people in charge of this about it, so there are adjustments.

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

I don’t mind ads being on a site I’d like to support and help keep running.

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

Seems like a good idea.

 

[Colonel_Krukov]

I have been told that we will only use highly respectable sources, and if people have legitimate complaints, I will tell the people in charge of this about it, so there are adjustments.

So no Raid: Shadow Legends then?

 

[Emirp sumitpo]

This thread is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends

 

[Mariogoods]

No, this thread is sponsored by Blue Apen, providing food for VS debaters.

I supprort for the decision. I can understand it.

 

[SamanPatou]

Users will be able to pay in order to have their CRT's accepted

 

[Starter_Pack]

Now, this is interesting, because I literally had a different forum I'm on go through the process of introducing ads with most people accepting it. This is before the ads became a very huge annoyance to many people, especially because it got in the way of certain important features, and it was eventually agreed to be removed entirely.

Still, I hope the ads can be handled here better than they were over there.

 

[Antvasima]

Yes. Agreed. I hope that they will not be too intrusive.

 

[AKM sama]

They'll obviously have to be implemented in such a way that they don't interfere with any features. Let's hope for the best.

 

[Antvasima]

Yes, and if there are any problems, we will have to tell Community Hired to adjust them according to our specifications.

 

[Antvasima]

We have been told a suggestion that after enabling the advertisements, our members could have an option to pay a very small monthly fee to get rid of them.

We have already made clear that the advertisements should be from respectable sources and not so intrusive that they hamper our usual forum discussions.

However, for people who are easily bothered by ads, want them gone for a totally ad-free experience, or want to support the forum in a small way, they can use the aforementioned option of contributing a very small monthly amount.

Please note that this is merely a suggestion as of yet and nothing has been decided, so we would appreciate some constructive feedback.

Also, we do not want advertisements either, but we need to include them in order for the forum to survive in the long run, and ultimately I am not the one who am in a position to take this decision.

If anybody has some more good suggestions for how this forum can sustain its running costs, and Community Hired can cover their expenses for all of the great amount of work that they did when setting it up, they are encouraged to share them.

 

[Bobsican]

I'm just going to mention that Adblock could affect the usability of this, so some measure to punish it would be a good idea.
Don't worry, I'm immune to those measures anyways via the more obscure Pop-up Blocker

 

[Antvasima]

I have been told that the people in charge of this are not sure how they will deal with advertisement blockers yet.

 

[Antvasima]

Hello.

I have received some new information.

In preparation for monetising the forum via ads, we need to change the number of posts from 100 to 50 per page soon.

In addition, we will likely get a GoFundMe donation button as soon as possible, so non-members who appreciate our work will be able to contribute.

I have also been told that the ads will be family-friendly, safe, non-political, and with no pop-up windows.

 

[Rikimarox2]

I'm just happy there aren't any pop up windows. Christ, those are nightmares.

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

Yeah, it's most appropriate if most of our adds consist of new video games, movies, cartoons, ect. But stuff like food product adds aren't bad either. Glad to know we're safe from pop ups and/or controversial adds.

 

[Mariogoods]

No political ad, no pop-up windows, good. I agree with DDM's view above:

Yeah, it's most appropriate if most of our adds consist of new video games, movies, cartoons, ect. But stuff like food product adds aren't bad either.

 

[Antvasima]

I have mentioned DDM's suggestion to one of the people in charge of this.

 

[Valiant_Abyss]

Are these advertisements up yet? I've been seeing this large gap at the top of the forums which I originally thought was just the system glitching out, but then I saw a jewelry advertisement in place of the large gap for a split sec before I either refreshed the page, or it went away.

 

[AKM sama]

The devs are checking the settings right now as far as I know. The actual ads aren't up yet.

 

[azontr]

That's a normal thing? I just thought the gap at the top of the screen was my computer being dogshit 0-0

 

[DaReaperMan]

It sometimes for a split second posts a dead ad for me lol

 

[Antvasima]

The system manager seems to be experimenting with the advertisement account of another person that he knows to see if it is possible for Google Adsense to accept us, since we were rejected earlier, so I think that the current situation will be temporary until we manage to set up something for real.

 

[1st_Virtue_of_Pure_Void]

The ads are like everywhere like seriously

 

[Antvasima]

It is just temporary. I have told the person who owns this forum that people who are logged in should view a much more limited number of advertisements per page than casual visitors. Maybe one at the top and one at the bottom or so.