Vile Ad Links on News Pages

UKJAY · August 20th, 2007, 04:10

I know this site is using adverts to try and generate some cost's back in keeping the site running, but I have just seen my number 1 annoyance in online advertising where words used on site have links which opens up some crappy little box. More times than not when reading you can accidentally roll over them when reading something. Am I alone in really not liking this type of ad generating?

Will that type of ad word stuff come to the forums?

I have also seen other response from people on the comments pages and it's not liked that much. This was one of the few sites that didn't use them. It feels like the front page is now over run with adverts, but im not there all that much.

*begs PLEASE dont bring it to the forums...

CleanSweep31 · August 20th, 2007, 04:19

just block anything from http://*.intellitxt.com in your restricted sites an dI no longer have them in my browser ....

IN IE7 go to "tools" => "Internet Options" =>"security (tab)" => "Restricted Sites (icon)"

Add the line http://*.intellitxt.com it should stop all those mouse bombs.

Cage · August 20th, 2007, 04:23

This kind of advertisement was once part of xboxic back in june 2006. Don't know why Curry got rid of them but it looks like they're back.
See this thread and start reading from post #22 made by me.
http://forum.xboxic.com/showthread.php?t=284

As long as these ads give the guys a few bucks extra a month I don't mind them being on the frontpage

EDIT: @Cleansweep. Blocking ads is like stealing from the site in a weird kind of way. Curry will explain it shortly, I'm sure of that.. I remember his earlier rants about guys using ad blockers and stuff..

UKJAY · August 20th, 2007, 04:58

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Originally Posted by Cage

This kind of advertisement was once part of xboxic back in june 2006. Don't know why Curry got rid of them but it looks like they're back.
See this thread and start reading from post #22 made by me.
http://forum.xboxic.com/showthread.php?t=284

As long as these ads give the guys a few bucks extra a month I don't mind them being on the frontpage

EDIT: @Cleansweep. Blocking ads is like stealing from the site in a weird kind of way. Curry will explain it shortly, I'm sure of that.. I remember his earlier rants about guys using ad blockers and stuff..

Yeah I remember that...lol, I haven't blocked them, I'll just ignore the front page.
I saw Curry's reply about overreacting to highlighted words after your post in the link you gave...

Nobody minds adverts, it's expected but ones that are associated with words I really hate. Them and Spam - i know its only a highlighted word, but when you read something and then suddenly up pops the box which then hides what your reading. You just want to close the whole page off...

TRIGGER M4N · August 20th, 2007, 05:15

Bah, two words on a frontpage is normal.

This and this are much more worrying. I'd help out on the Wiki, but I have no fecking clue what to do.

CleanSweep31 · August 20th, 2007, 09:16

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Originally Posted by Cage

EDIT: @Cleansweep. Blocking ads is like stealing from the site in a weird kind of way. Curry will explain it shortly, I'm sure of that.. I remember his earlier rants about guys using ad blockers and stuff..

Believe me, I am the last to block normal banner and button ads, as a matter of fact I have spent quite a bit of time troubleshooting issues on ads. This mouse bomb is a nasty bit that majes it a target for elimination in my book, if you want to put up with it then great, not good for me. I just couldn't put up with the text links any longer ...

So lets talk about paying for acceess to support a site. I had offered to pay for a personal view of the site site free of banner ads etc., in the past. Anyone want to open up that discussion?.

nofear360 · August 20th, 2007, 09:21

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Originally Posted by CleanSweep31

So lets talk about paying for acceess to support a site. I had offered to pay for a personal view of the site site free of banner ads etc., in the past. Anyone want to open up that discussion?.

You don't wanna go there

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CleanSweep31 · August 20th, 2007, 09:32

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Originally Posted by nofear360

You don't wanna go there

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We could have a Gold and Silver memebership ...

Paul Tancred · August 20th, 2007, 13:16

Erm, no offence Jay, but where are said ads? I don't see them.

Rossko_UK · August 20th, 2007, 13:38

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Originally Posted by Paul Tancred

Erm, no offence Jay, but where are said ads? I don't see them.

You're telling us that you cannot see the underlined words for advertisements?! (Unless you have them blocked of course.)

UKJAY · August 20th, 2007, 13:45

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Originally Posted by Rossko_UK

You're telling us that you cannot see the underlined words for advertisements?! (Unless you have them blocked of course.)

Other people on the front page are also suggesting blocking ads from here, so I don't think putting the underlined words up was a good thing

Im not sure if anyone else has this problem, but when I type in the comments box on the front page it doesn't seem to recognise me typing anything. I have to press the letters a few times to get them to appear.

(No it's not my laptop keyboard)

It's ok typing in the forums and in everything else I do, but the comments box on the front page takes me a couple of go's to type in a word. If I write block fluently without looking it appears a 'blck' and I'd have to go back and press 'o' 3 times? Weird... maybe its IE7

Cage · August 20th, 2007, 14:01

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Originally Posted by UKJAY

Im not sure if anyone else has this problem, but when I type in the comments box on the front page it doesn't seem to recognise me typing anything. I have to press the letters a few times to get them to appear.

(No it's not my laptop keyboard)

It's ok typing in the forums and in everything else I do, but the comments box on the front page takes me a couple of go's to type in a word. If I write block fluently without looking it appears a 'blck' and I'd have to go back and press 'o' 3 times? Weird... maybe its IE7

I had the same problem on another forum I visit. Also on vista with IE7. The problem disappeard after upgrading my flash plugin. Give it a try, it might solve the problem for you 2.

Curry · August 20th, 2007, 14:06

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Originally Posted by Cage

This kind of advertisement was once part of xboxic back in june 2006. Don't know why Curry got rid of them but it looks like they're back.

Because they paid beyond crap. I ran it as an experiment at the time, and payout was abysmal, so I got rid of them: as you know and has been pointed out here I try to maintain a healthy relationship between irritation caused by ads and their value to the site.

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As long as these ads give the guys a few bucks extra a month I don't mind them being on the frontpage

It's rather more than a few bucks this time round, it's an important step to me finally not losing 4-digit figures per month anymore from running these sites.

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EDIT: @Cleansweep. Blocking ads is like stealing from the site in a weird kind of way. Curry will explain it shortly, I'm sure of that.. I remember his earlier rants about guys using ad blockers and stuff..

It's simply theft

I'm planning to offer some kind of subscription btw later this year, that removes all advertising from our pages for a small yearly fee. Essentially it's the same: you pay for using the site either by viewing our ads, or by paying with money

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Originally Posted by Paul Tancred

Erm, no offence Jay, but where are said ads? I don't see them.

Well you're just a lucky Irishman

See:

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Vibrant In-Text Advertising and SmartAD advertising campaigns run in the following countries/regions: USA, UK, Canada, France, Sweden, Italy, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

Btw I honestly don't see the problem with in-text advertising, it's an advertising system I've never been bothered about myself. They're clearly recognisable, they're only in the actual content (not comments etc.), and they don't do shit unless you hover them. It's not like they make sound or flash, or actually block content unless you explicitly activate them by hovering.

Messiah · August 20th, 2007, 14:30

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Originally Posted by TRIGGER M4N

Bah, two words on a frontpage is normal.

This and this are much more worrying. I'd help out on the Wiki, but I have no fecking clue what to do.

We already fixed that. You now need an account to edit in the Wiki. And if you want the help out. Add me on MSN, i'll explain you everything

Curry · August 20th, 2007, 14:32

Wiki corruption went out of hand yeah so we disabled anonymous editing. Wiki's sort of end-of-line anyway, we'll be importing all the information in there in custom game info section later this year

TRIGGER M4N · August 20th, 2007, 15:34

OMG confirmed front page redisgn?!

Curry · August 20th, 2007, 15:46

Oh did I say that?

Rival24 · August 20th, 2007, 15:51

You implied it!

Messiah · August 20th, 2007, 16:08

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Originally Posted by TRIGGER M4N

OMG confirmed front page redisgn?!

sssssshttttttt

nofear360 · August 20th, 2007, 16:25

What FP redesign?

UKJAY · August 20th, 2007, 16:36

Is front page design such a big deal?

nofear360 · August 20th, 2007, 16:52

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Originally Posted by UKJAY

Is front page design such a big deal?

It is for the crew

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Paul Tancred · August 20th, 2007, 17:05

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Originally Posted by Rossko_UK

You're telling us that you cannot see the underlined words for advertisements?! (Unless you have them blocked of course.)

No, I don't have an ad-blocker. I do, however (and have previously admitted to this), have a pop-up blocker.

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Originally Posted by Curry

Well you're just a lucky Irishman

Luck o' the Irish, I tell ye.

UKJAY · August 20th, 2007, 17:13

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Originally Posted by nofear360

It is for the crew

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Those little ad words things are ok and barely noticable if it was ones you had to click rather than ones that make pop ups, so far each one has tried linking me to xbox.com

Chris · August 20th, 2007, 18:41

i'd pay. <3

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