Ingenu said:Weird...
I guess you don't use Firefox, since I never have any problems around here...
Actually I'm using Firefox. That blocked popup was my first ever from B3D.
Ingenu said:Weird...
I guess you don't use Firefox, since I never have any problems around here...
What's the difference between blocking ads and mentally ignoring them? The latter is more annoying...Dave Baumann said:And, personally I find it an extremely selfish point of view to be blocking ads when they are the only means of a sites support - how much do you lot pay for this resource? Not a bloody bean, thats how much. And then you complain about the few meagre ads that there are here - as I said, you have an easy life here in comparison to other sites and the level of ads, pops, text link ads in the middle or articles and yet you choose to whine about the two banners on the forum (that are in easy to ignore locations, unlike other forums).
If you can't be arsed to even allow us these to support the site, then theres a simple solution - we'll close the forums.
I'm glad browsing forums is part of my workdizietsma said:Here at work the ad banners turn into a warning saying the Internet should only be used for work puproses.
I've had some, mostly concentrated to a short period several years ago. ...Except for just now, when a scumware popup kidnapped the topmost window and produced this faked error window:london-boy said:Never ever had a pop up from Beyond3D in 4 years i've been here. I think.
Dave Baumann said:As for the type of ads - we have very strict instructions for our agencys that no pops-up/unders are allowed (something that is very well adhered to, unlike most other sites) and no multimedia ads. When a new set comes through, sometimes something will sneak through but it usually get acted upon quickly.
drpepper said:You may already know this but there is this one annoying ad with a clown fish, Nemo?, out of water. When the ad first loads it yells out "Help me" in a muddled fashion. When I first heard this I thought it was a system alert, but I don't have any sound byte that comes close to it. Eventually I found out it was the ad since it had the words "help me" on it. Just to let ya know.
It's happened to me on a number of occasions.
K.I.L.E.R said:I hope Dave forgives me for being so poor.
My mum certainly wont give out money over the net and I don't have a job so I can't afford to pay.
I know it doesn't help, when I do get a job I hope someone will remind me to pay up because I would have no problem doing so.
_xxx_ said:The system is okay as it is, it would just be nice if Dave could get the ad providers to use less non-intrusive ones here. But I don't know if that possibility is given.
Ghost of D3D said:Donations just seems rather out of place (for lack of better words) for what I have come to know as a really professional looking site (with intelligent individuals in the site's forums as well). I had visited this site (rather infrequently) when "Reverend" ran it and back then I have never viewed Beyond3D as anything more than a site with a hobbyist nature. Dave Baumann's news postings and his and his staff colleagues' contents (reviews/interviews) are also notceably different from back then - they all just read as being being professionally written (gosh, all the B3D staff aren't "professionals" at what they do here, are they? ). I have never been able to get rid of my own personal view of associating "donations" with anything negative when it comes to websites. Apologies if the following comes out the wrong way but if a site were to "depend" on donations to either survive or make money, then that site's owner would be ignoring something that may be more important than providing us with interesting and informative content.
Perhaps subsciptions may be an alternative. Or maybe have "payable content" (but only for certain selected content, which Dave Baumann would need to choose/determine carefully; certainly previews/reviews of the latest next gen hardware should not qualify as this site would lose a huge audience.
Of course, I would absolutely not mind if things stay the way they are!
Well, I'm amused.Ghost of D3D said:I had visited this site (rather infrequently) when "Reverend" ran it and back then I have never viewed Beyond3D as anything more than a site with a hobbyist nature.
Ghost of D3D said:Sorry but I'm not "Reverend". Sounds like you guys know him well.
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