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Forums - Website Topics - Would you contribute $ to remove VgChartz ads? (Poll up)

 

I'm willing to donate up to x_ per month

1$ 8 5.67%
 
2$ 3 2.13%
 
3$ 3 2.13%
 
5$+ 5 3.55%
 
10$+ 1 0.71%
 
20$+ (I have money to burn ok) 1 0.71%
 
Keep the ads, I pay nothing 85 60.28%
 
I particularily like the porn ads 35 24.82%
 
Total:141
Slarvax on 05 March 2016

As a writer, I hope I dont have to pay
But like many have said, there's no reason to actually pay. Unless the staff sudenly managed to hire a team that could work on the site, this shall remain free.



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barneystinson69 on 05 March 2016

No. As much as I like this site, I'm not spending money to remove intrusive ads. 



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aLkaLiNE on 05 March 2016
Slarvax said:
As a writer, I hope I dont have to pay
But like many have said, there's no reason to actually pay. Unless the staff sudenly managed to hire a team that could work on the site, this shall remain free.

Clearly no one has to pay, period d:

 

 

but our most recent thread had a 14 year old mention being redirected to a porn site. I think we have crossed the line where this becomes a relevent topic.



DivinePaladin on 05 March 2016

I'd rather they get fairly solid ad revenue from my viewing since the revenue from ads overall would far outpace the income from user donation in all likelihood. I just want ads that aren't either porn or force open/are generally insanely intrusive on mobile. It's not much to ask to hope a website doesn't act straight out of the late 90s in 2016, especially one that is considered to have quality data that almost no other site has in any capacity.

I almost wish VGC had a true competitor because maybe then somebody with pull would stop and think that maybe there should be a conversation had about these disgusting advertisements.



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Mike321 on 05 March 2016
BraLoD said:

That not very nice, so my "no" means nothing to you? I worked so hard on it!

Unless you typed "no" with your feet while standing on your head I'm gonna say you didn't work hard on it



                                                                                     

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Azuren on 05 March 2016

No, ioi needs to just put an end to obnoxious ads.



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NobleTeam360 on 05 March 2016

Nope



aLkaLiNE on 05 March 2016
DivinePaladin said:
I'd rather they get fairly solid ad revenue from my viewing since the revenue from ads overall would far outpace the income from user donation in all likelihood. I just want ads that aren't either porn or force open/are generally insanely intrusive on mobile. It's not much to ask to hope a website doesn't act straight out of the late 90s in 2016, especially one that is considered to have quality data that almost no other site has in any capacity.

I almost wish VGC had a true competitor because maybe then somebody with pull would stop and think that maybe there should be a conversation had about these disgusting advertisements.

Server cost has to be <$2000 a month. I'm sure someone more qualified can speak on this, but one of the forums I used to frequent, which had nearly 100,000 users called Scorehero had a periodical crowd fund and iirc the server cost was substantially less than that and would last a few months at a time. Compare that with the penny per ad that VgChartz gets per click/force open. I imagine the numbers could be close.

 

its also not as simple as just 'removing' the ads. If ioi didn't rely on this revenue, I don't think he would enforce the marketing we see today.



Mike321 on 05 March 2016
BraLoD said:
Mike321 said:

Unless you typed "no" with your feet while standing on your head I'm gonna say you didn't work hard on it

Can you really say that? What if I wrote it with my tongue? What if I don't have arms or legs? What if I live in slow motion and typing requires insane amounts of stress to my hands to function in real time to type things? What if I was randomly picking letters in the keyboard with punches until I finally got only the "no" I wanted? What if... I'm just being ridiculous? Huh? HUH?

At least you worked a little bit harder on your response



                                                                                     

Frogger on 05 March 2016

I'd contribute money if I started seeing tangible strides of improvement in any part of the site that isn't the phenomenal writing team. I use adblock. I don't care about the ads. I care about the site growing into something that's not laughed at by Neogaf and scoffed at by IGN.