I enjoy the forums on this site and I still intend to be a poster here for a long time, but I have had to do something that I do not like to do on any site I visit. I have started blocking certain ads on this site. First I targeted the "Congrats, you have won a Wii/Laptop/iPod" ads. After constantly having to mute my speakers, I had had enough. Today I blocked an ad on this forum that tried to open 6 popup windows (thank you Firefox for blocking them).
Now, please take this criticism in the spirit in which it is intended. I like the site alot, but the ads that are running on this site are not appropriate and are far below what this site should be showing.
VGChartz' current Alexa rating is 7,567. For those that don't know, this is a pretty decent rating. The ads that are running on this site are Busch league. I did a comparison with another site I visit, HardOCP.com which has a much lower ranking, around 16,000. That site, a computer hardware site, runs ads for companies that are related to the focus of the site, are professional in appearance, and come from top companies in that field.
I believe the ads on this site make the site look less professional, do not maximize the earning potential of the site, and now, with the ad that just tried to open 6 windows, even opening up the users to popup attacks.
Good advertisements can be a benefit to a website. Having advertisements for companies in the industry shows that the website has prestige and recieves high traffic. Whoever is handling the ads for the site, please take this into consideration.
Thanks
Thank god for the disable signatures option.