Okay, this advertising crap all over the place is one of the reasons why I left HuntingNet. I can understand them in the margins and up top but putting them in the middle of the thread is annoying! The only reason I'll remember CamTrakker is that they annoy me and I never want anything to do with them.
Eh, I don't blame them. Gotta make the money while you can I guess. Yes, it is kind of annoying, but that is life on a successful forum (or so it seems). My only problem is that on my slow connection they just make it longer before I can read the thread.
Something's gotta pay the bills of a free forum. This place even with the ads is 10x better than HNI was/is.
You could always invest 100's of thousands of dollars and start a forum and pay for it all out of your pocket so you won't have to look at any ads.
So, the dichotomy is......start a new website....or don't mention that you'll never buy a cam trakker?
I think Rob's point, which i agree with....is that ads can be placed where they don't interrupt the flow of a discussion forum. The companies will still pay. The website will still self sustain. And life would go on. Hell most of the time the annoying ad is an exact replica of the one across the top of the page, why the need for the same ad twice? Oh well, I always have the option to take my ball and play elsewhere as a consumer. It just seems this sight is moving away from the original reasons it was created (or so we were told). Seems it is now another clone of HNI, AT, or a number of other sites...Not a bad thing, just different than how it's always been. I just always look back at Facebook, I don't even realize this site even has ads 99% of the time and yet it is still valued at over 25 billion....not really relevant to discussion forums per se (targeted ads vs anonymous users), but it still can serve as an example of sites making a killing without slapping an ad between every post.
Neither, just use the site and accept that someone has to pay for us to be able to hang out here. If someone wants an ad free messageboard, they can always pay out of their pocket and start their own. Nothing more, nothing less.
Scott's correct - the advertisers of this website are the people who pay the bills to keep the lights on and allow us to pay for servers, web programming, hosting, and all of the other costs associated with running a business. Having ads is a nessary part of sustaining said business. We will be making adjustments/improvements to the way these ads are displayed in the future as we get feedback from the community, so please - if you see something that's bothersome or have a suggestion for improvement - or find a way for us to make money without selling ads (like you donating it to us) - let us know.
No problem with Ads. But the links in the threads are way too invasive to me. Understand that they are some of the most profitable, but still. Annoying.
I wish Mathews didnt have so much advertising budget.... bowtech has the invasion Mathews has the Infection`
But what it is isn't what it has to be, otherwise we'd still be living in caves. (Not that hunting for a living would be all bad...)
I can live with the ads if it keeps the forum going. If someone else has a better forum that I overall enjoy more I would move. There is a lot of competition for on-line archery sales. This is a free forum. I can deal with it. Beggars can't be choosers.
Kind of a lot of b'ing and moaning... I don't even realize they are there. It's not like it's a 30 second advertisement you have to watch before you can read the thread... It's not really any different than someone posting an irrelevant picture in a thread to me... After you've seen the 6 different ones that there are... SCROLL PAST IT!
The sponsored link banners don't bother me. Its when sites start get into take over ads, in line key words ads (where certain words in articles etc are ads and when you scroll over it they grow and ruin your experience) or any other invasive ad. Could be worse. They could of implemented it where it takes up the right half of the post box on the first post of every string.
