banners-never again

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11-24-2002
Cgawd

banners-never again

[rant]i will never click on another ad-banner on this website ever again. I got bored and shot the 3 ducks, i knew i would be routed to some BS site. WELL, it shot me to browserwize, and the page url was install.htm, thats when i said oh crap and quickly closed it. But i was not quick enough aparently because it had installed the stupid search engine toolbar ever, sure i can uncheck it so it doesnt show up, but its still an option, and it cant be removed. Plus its the principle that they would FLING THERE SMELLY-**** at me like that, ****ING ........ES ME THE **** OFF!!!!!! GOD DAMNIT. [/rant]

Hey 1337-boy - cut that crap out
-Govtcheez
11-24-2002
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11-24-2002
Cgawd

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Plus its the principle
11-24-2002
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*nod* agreed
11-24-2002
face_master

I seriously don t see how advertisers think we are going to want to go to their site/give them money if all they do is annoy us?? Same with the spam email
11-25-2002
MrWizard

I agree about the principle part.

All i have to say is Opera.
11-25-2002
mithrandir

The lesson - NEVER click on a banner. What were you thinking Cgawd?
11-25-2002
face_master

mithrandir, how did u change ur name from [stealth] ?

I'm onto you...
11-25-2002
Commander

probably got the webmaster to edit the DB...

right??

right??

AHHHH! answer me damnit! :mad:
11-25-2002
Imperito

I got fed up with the banners here some time ago. I usually don't have a problem (hell at UF I click them every few days to support the site) but here they are offensive. So they are no more. I replace them all with a grey rectangle that says "This is an ad". Of course it wouldn't surprise me if kermi were looking into eyeblaster ads, since the standards seem to be so low around here.
11-25-2002
golfinguy4

Re: banners-never again

Quote:

Originally posted by Cgawd
[rant]i will never click on another ad-banner on this website ever again. I got bored and shot the 3 ducks, i knew i would be routed to some BS site. WELL, it shot me to browserwize, and the page url was install.htm, thats when i said oh crap and quickly closed it. But i was not quick enough aparently because it had installed the stupid search engine toolbar ever, sure i can uncheck it so it doesnt show up, but its still an option, and it cant be removed. Plus its the principle that they would FLING THERE SMELLY-**** at me like that, ****ING ........ES ME THE **** OFF!!!!!! GOD DAMNIT. [/rant]

Hey 1337-boy - cut that crap out
-Govtcheez

Same thing happened to me once (except I never clicked on a banner). It is registered as a program and can be removed through Add/Remove Programs in windows.
11-26-2002
mithrandir

Quote:

Originally posted by face_master
mithrandir, how did u change ur name from [stealth] ?

I'm onto you...

I haven't the faintest clue what you are talking about.
11-26-2002
Sang-drax

Quote:

Originally posted by mithrandir
I haven't the faintest clue what you are talking about.

Search for threads started by "mithrandir" and threads started by "[stealth]" show up. :)
11-26-2002
mithrandir

Okay you caught me :o

So what :p
11-26-2002
face_master

Quote:

Originally posted by Sang-drax
Search for threads started by "mithrandir" and threads started by "[stealth]" show up. :)

Cool, but I didn't even have to know that to know it was [stealth].
11-26-2002
alpha

Quote:

Originally posted by MrWizard
I agree about the principle part.

All i have to say is Opera.

I agree. You can choose to have pop-ups in the background, or not show up at all. as for banners, i don't click on any.
11-26-2002
Shadow

There's on on this site that's really annoying. If you move your mouse over it...a window pops up. Very annoying.

I'm surprised ..ah, nevermind. :)
11-26-2002
Fordy

1st Echo earlier poster - use Opera!

2nd The alternative is for us each to pay a membership.....so wallets out guys!
11-26-2002
Cgawd

its not that expensive to host a site and forum like this, $190(with MySQL DB,php, and all that good stuff 10,000 mb/month)+$20 for domain name, not sure what everyone always complains about
11-26-2002
Eibro

I'm going to take a poke in the dark and guess this site gets well over 10,000mb per month traffic. Seeing as it's first on the list for a lot of different searches at google (main ones being "C++ programming" "Cprogramming" or "C Tutorials".

Plus, it's non-profit. All the money is coming out of one persons pocket.
11-26-2002
Fordy

It really gets on my nerves when people take things for granted...

Quote:

Originally posted by Cgawd
its not that expensive to host a site and forum like this, $190(with MySQL DB,php, and all that good stuff 10,000 mb/month)+$20 for domain name, not sure what everyone always complains about

I dont know for sure, but I think its more than that...these forums eat bandwidth....

But then why not put your money where your mouth is!!?! - if spending money isnt an issue for you, I imagine you will waste no time in giving up your cash to help the running of this site.
There's a link on the main pages to allow you to make a donation for the running of this site - here
I'm sure the webmaster will be overjoyed when you make your contribution!!!!
11-26-2002
Cgawd

i wouldnt contribute to this site because if they need all these ads and contributions theyre either A) paying too much for their host, or B) pocketing all that they get from contibs and ads

and i dont take anything for granted, $200 a year isnt a lot of money to anyone these days
11-26-2002
Shadow

> and i dont take anything for granted, $200 a year isnt a lot of money to anyone these days
Great point - I feel the same way.
11-26-2002
Esparno

If everyone contirbuted 50 cents a year as a membership fee, that would make the site run for a very long time.
11-26-2002
Cgawd

1 cent even
11-26-2002
Esparno

As of right now the owners of this site would recieve 2924 dollars a year if there was a 50 cent a year membership fee.
11-26-2002
Cgawd

and as we discussed it would take roughly $200, $500 at the most