Would you contribute $ to remove VgChartz ads? (Poll up)

[DivinePaladin]

aLkaLiNE said:

DivinePaladin said:

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.

I'll reiterate that a quality site goes a long way here, specifically in this instance in making back any revenue lost in any changeover from force clicks. I'd be willing to donate to a site that actually felt like a website from this decade, with the donations going to site and chart upkeep. From my while lurking I believe the only significant changes we've had in the last two years was a new logo (woo) and multiquoting as a button just last month. As somebody who has to work with websites fairly often for my major, multiquoting is something that should be like a day three addition. 

 

A website shouldn't need to force its income by burdening its userbase. It should be done gracefully or through donation. If that's not manageable then a site should look into its viability as a real commercial product. 

 

As an aside, doesn't VGC offer an insanely expensive pro membership that costs literally $10000 or more? There's absolutely no way there should be overhead as high as it seems to be with a site this basic, especially since to my knowledge a good amount of companies use VGC pro. There's absolutely no reason for forced ads in this case.