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aLkaLiNE on 05 March 2016
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DivinePaladin said:
aLkaLiNE said:

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 period 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.

I didn't say anything about "removing" ads. There's a very simple way to take a site with as steady and solid a traffic volume as VGC to put a foot down on intrusive spam-level advertisements and it's called putting a foot down. If we had a quality website here I'd be fine with donating but we have a fairly basic site with a fairly basically executed tracking system (whose defining quality is the fact that it's based on exclusive metrics that nobody else can figure out), and getting ads that pop up and force me into another window LITERALLY as I'm typing this very message for a site as average as this is ridiculous. This is a top 15000 in the world website, which according to my quick searches is valued at around $200 per day in ad revenue. I don't see a website that looks like its worth its value when I see these ads. If I did I'd be inclined to donate but I only donate to things who are fighting to earn my donation. A site that often falls behind on its main goal, with horrible advertisements, an owner who seemingly doesn't care about his community and a good forum community is not a site I plan on donating to currently. And I don't even care about the charts, for reference. I just like some of the people here. I've run forums before, it's not that hard to keep it up to a basic quality. 

 

Sorry, went on a bit of a digression. The point is, there's a way to advertise correctly. VGC doesn't do it, and they're probably losing out on money because of the adblockers who are tired of the ads just within this dedicated community. If a solid chunk people who like it here are willing to adblock, there's a problem. 

The 'removing ads' portion of my comment was a response to the comment directly below yours. I'm using my phone as we speak, and multi quoting is a pain in the ass.

 

Aditionally, the only way this site is getting that kind of ad revenue daily is through the force clicks. In which case I highly doubt we would be able to work around, barring ad block which again I believe is a program meant for pc and thus not an option for many.