Would you mind seeing Intellitxt 'in-line contextual' adverts on the site and forums?

I would mind, because...
- The double underline randomly highlights words where it doesn't make sense, making it annoying to read.
- It creates the appearance that the links are intended or accepted by the author of the text. To counter it, some people might try misspelling words so they will not be recognized and linked.
- More often than not the linked stuff takes the word completely out of context or is even entirely unrelated.

Of course I could easily block it, but I'd rather not have such abominations spread at all.

 

I completely agree. I think any site that uses them is grasping at straws for revenue and needs to come up with better ideas. All of Xmas' points are very good as well.

 

How about having a Premium Membership userclass that is tied to 1 year subscriptions if one donates $15 US. The perk of Premium Membership would be no ads at all, their own discussion forum, slightly larger PM box, and a slightly tweaked username display.

We run something similar. We also give them an domain email account via Google's Hosted services.

 

But on the flipside of that I'd have to point out that the intellitext ads usually means more cash for a site, if I'm not mistaken those have some pretty sweet incentives on them.

I'm not sure though, it was a long time ago that I laughed off an offer for intellitext....

 

I'd certainly go for this. I really love the Beyond3D forums as I feel they're a home for me with people who are actually intelligent and can, for the most part (*cough* console forum *cough*), carry on conversation without resorting to typical ******ism.

As for intellitxt ads they're about the most annoying ads. I'd much rather see real banner ads on the sides or top or bottom from places such as Newegg, ZipZoomFly, etc. Those type of ads are actually useful at times since I often buy products from these companies and when I see a good deal in the ads I'm MUCH more likely to click on them and check it out.

 

Why I dislike Intellitxt :

1) They distract my reading of forum posts (unlined links are alreadly usined in Hypertext to denote a URL/link)

2) I like to 'copy and paste' text within some posts (for forum search or google etc) and Intellitxt pop-ups really gets in the way of this.

While being able to be disabled in a registered profile would be a okay-ish workaround, my internal want for clear and easy-to-read forums (for everyone) overrides this.

 

Sites like newegg, ZZF, monarch, tiger, and ads for manufacuturers all got my attention on other sites. Dealtime and other such real-time pricing engines were sensible adverts, too. is it possible to work out deals with these companies, or are they only interested in the giant websites?

 

Personally I would recommend against it - your users won't like it, esp on the forums. If you really must use it, do so for guests only.

Why not just carefully place google ads on the site and forums? After the last post on the page for example - at least they don't get in the way of browsing.

I also suggest admin here join some sites for web admins, lots of ideas people share. If I had PM's I could pm you a link to a few

 

Bumped and unstickied, if anyone still wants to get an oar in.

 

I really hate them, it would be a major turn-off. But then again, AdBlock for the win. I wouldn't even think twice about it in this case. IntelliText, expanding flash popups and flash ads that keep my CPU very busy go beyond my "extremely irritating, kill them now" threshold. Although I normaly simply don't visit that site ever again.

I would gladly pay for my browsing pleasure instead, as long as I don't need a credit card to do it.

 

Yes, Google ads are nice.

 

Seconded for guests in the forum and everybody for site content.

Also seconded for the donate for B3D executive admiral's club thing.

 

What sort of money per average user does site advertising bring in?

I have no problem at all with google ads. The one currently displaying is for custom new zealand designed gaming cases. That is *smart* advertising, I'm actually sortof interested - if it were something retarded like that damned 'the fart button' ad, well.... [edit] although now it's advertising xbox 360s on ebay and best buy, which is stupid as neither is in NZ

That said inline ads like intellitxt ads, and other ads that try and trick you into appearing to be news for forum content irritate me. It puts you on guard, and makes you suspicious.

So how much do these subversive ads bring in, per user, per year? If it's $10 (I can't imagine it's more?) then add a paypal option in the CP. I've only ever donated to sites like xboxyde and such, but this one would not be an exception.

What I can't stand are sites like rapidshare, where you occasionally use them, they demand something like $150/year to disable the ads and get faster access. Thats ridiculous. $150 would be several 100 gigabytes of bandwidth, if not more

 

Not intending to belabor the obvious, this quote shows why B3D continues to show a lot of class and will undoubtedly maintain high user loyalty. Thanks!

 

Ventilation

intellitext, hexusads, amazon, that would then be all if im not misstaken. Well intellitext is atleast provide veery "clean" ads.

EDIT: Oh kudos to you mods for removing falkag and using hexusads instead atleast. But I block all ads neverthless without an eye blink no matter who rpovides tehm or which sites has them becouse it is my right !