| Tallgeese101 said: And Adblock is back on for VGchartz, that "spin the bottle" ad is a joke. |
Did you report it to ioi? If you don't, how will he know to remove it?
I don't really notice the ads much, but if anything I'm happy to support the site by giving ad views. It feels like I'm contributing something.
I disabled the ad block for this site and the ads arent obnoxious so I might as well leave it. Its the ads that pop up in 5 different windows and 'the click here to continue to the website' ads I hate.
Speaking of adds.... is it any different revenue wise if you let the full add play or click the skip button?
Has anyone in america had "My Personal Scanner" come up? I JUST NOW had it happen when I clicked on the "Linearity" thread. It redirected me and started "scanning" my computer. (IOI I just sent you a private message). I can't really be the only one, can I?
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| STEKSTAV said: @ Thekitchensink - To minimize the quoting. 1. Are you seriously saying that people who visits this site with adblocker is stealing money? If you were my community manager id fire you straight away. But to take this back to reality. Lets take Microsoft as an example. 2. If their entire company would consist only of the Xbox and Xbl (VGC) was their only market channel. And Gold membership (Ads) was their sole source of income. Do you think they'd go - "All you silvermembers are stealing our money. So either you upgrade to Gold or GTFO!".. ? OR do you think they rather try and make money off of their userbase in another way? But you can also look at it from a VGC perspective. - Sending people to E3 will generate X amount of articles - X amount of articles will generate Y amount of more page views - The only way for VGC to send more people to E3 is to reduce cost - We can reduce costs by shuting out ad blockers. Then id shut out adblockers in a heart beat. A means to an end. Im all for it. Go get your money! But to sit here and cry that the community is stealing money by visiting your website, and that its the communitys fault that your business plan isnt generating money is not good management. Period. |
1. Yes, I am. Glad I don't work for you, then.
2. Actually, Xbox Live Silver members see plenty of ads. When I had a Silver account, my Dashboard was still full of ads telling me to "Upgrade to the 120gb hard drive, the perfect place to store all that upcoming Fallout 3 content!" So yes, even Microsoft, the company with the largest net worth in the world, relies on ads to support its free services. If people found a way to circumvent seeing ads on their Silver accounts, you're damn right Microsoft wouldn't be pleased with them. They'd probably ban them from Live. Your point?
I adblock because most of them slow my 6 year old laptop down to turtle pace.
Less intrusive advertising, and I'll turn it off.
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Can I pay the ad revenue equivalent and then not see ads?
| ioi said: However for every 10 people who fall into this category, 1 person will stand up and say "it's my right to block ads and I don't care if it hurts a website", the response being "it's my right to remove you from using this website". For users who wish to take but give nothing back it wouldn't be considered a loss if you were no longer able to use the site. |
If thats the case ioi you will lose MANY members here who will simply go to a site that do not FORCE people to look at poorly managed adverts that have a reputation of being totally unsafe.
To be clear here, it will be YOU losing out ioi by losing your members, your site is competing with many better gaming sites that are also free, if it wasn't for your sales data half the members wouldn't be here anyway and i'm sure you know that, if your not making enough money from this site you are doing it all wrong FACT, you can't blame your users for your mistakes in site revenue.
I'm now certain this thread has put many people off vgchartz anyway so well done on that, I hardly visit this site anymore anyway so couldn't care less how you want to mess your site up, 99% of the time I am on Eurogamer and NeoGaf who actually treat their members well (and also create their own news instead of taking it from other sites) which also isn't a bias ps3 site like this has become over the last few months.
Good luck with the future ioi, I really think you need it.
P.S, if you want to delete my account for me expressing my views then thats fine, not my loss, 1 banned member turns into 5, 5 turns into 50, soon you will have no users left, my twitter and facebook will certainly be busy!
Bye people, some of you have been very cool, see you around!
huh makes you think the alcohol sites must rake it in with all the accidental drunk ad clicks.
Time for a booze sub forum.
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