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Information => News & Announcements => Topic started by: Ronnel on January 18, 2011, 22:08:38 pm

Title: Commercial advertisement
Post by: Ronnel on January 18, 2011, 22:08:38 pm
With permission of the ARPD command staff we have added some commercial banners to the forum.
If there are any ads that are obtrusive please let us know, apart from banners there should not appear anything.

when posting a problem, try to make a screenshot and tell which country you are from, as certain problematic ads are not shown to all users.
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: [Rstar]Paul on January 18, 2011, 22:13:38 pm
Arghh i kinda hate these ads, they load up my page slower and it laggs..
Altho - Questions is: What's the use of them anyway..?
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: Janar on January 18, 2011, 22:19:02 pm
They earn more money with these advertisements.
EDIT: The ads appear like this or they should as banners? Estonia is my location, if it is needed.
(http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/4024/65289141.jpg)
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: Giovanni_Blake on January 18, 2011, 22:19:14 pm
Arghh i kinda hate these ads, they load up my page slower and it laggs..
Altho - Questions is: What's the use of them anyway..?
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: Leroy Hudson on January 18, 2011, 22:19:32 pm
Arghh i kinda hate these ads, they load up my page slower and it laggs..
Altho - Questions is: What's the use of them anyway..?

They'll earn money, for Argonath
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: [Rstar]Paul on January 18, 2011, 22:24:12 pm
Fair enough  ;)
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: Chief J. Schappell on January 18, 2011, 22:24:44 pm
The ads at the end of posts seem a bit excessive, and the top banner ad is insanely large and out of place. Ronnel, might I suggest cleaning them up a bit? I know you guys need the clicks, but users are going to end up ignoring the ads if they get too annoyed by them.
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: Janar on January 18, 2011, 22:26:34 pm
The ads at the end of posts seem a bit excessive, and the top banner ad is insanely large and out of place. Ronnel, might I suggest cleaning them up a bit? I know you guys need the clicks, but users are going to end up ignoring the ads if they get too annoyed by them.

I don't see any top banner ad. Might be due to my AdBlock Plus.
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: Chief J. Schappell on January 18, 2011, 22:27:48 pm
The ads at the end of posts seem a bit excessive, and the top banner ad is insanely large and out of place. Ronnel, might I suggest cleaning them up a bit? I know you guys need the clicks, but users are going to end up ignoring the ads if they get too annoyed by them.

I don't see any top banner ad. Might be due to my AdBlock Plus.
More than likely. These ads are slowing down the page loading as well.

Ronnel, maybe less flashy ads similar to Google ads centered at the top and bottom of the pages, but not at the very top or very bottom of the screen, similar to how most sites do it?
Quote from: Ronnel
With permission of the ARPD command staff...
Not to be an ass or anything, but who exactly did you ask? I never heard anything. :(
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: JRockie on January 18, 2011, 23:30:46 pm
Time for adblock  :lol:
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: SafetyMoose on January 19, 2011, 00:33:45 am
Time for adblock  :lol:

Way ahead of you
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: Sushi on January 19, 2011, 07:33:49 am
Yeah these ages are chunking up my loading time and they're all American ads aswell for me.
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: Ben on January 19, 2011, 20:14:15 pm
It made me laugh when I saw the adverts...insurance mostly I think  :lol:

I'm not even old enough to buy insurance!
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: Chief J. Schappell on January 19, 2011, 20:36:07 pm
It made me laugh when I saw the adverts...insurance mostly I think  :lol:

I'm not even old enough to buy insurance!
Ya, the targeting is pretty lame if you ask me. :P
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: [R*]Pancher on January 19, 2011, 21:20:00 pm
In all topics i see a "last reply" by the "ARPD Forum" which is an advertisement of the Google ad's.. very annoying... I'm from Sweden!!
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: Janar on January 19, 2011, 21:21:10 pm
Does not happen to me, I see, who answered for real.
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: Chief J. Schappell on January 19, 2011, 21:23:59 pm
In all topics i see a "last reply" by the "ARPD Forum" which is an advertisement of the Google ad's.. very annoying... I'm from Sweden!!
I see it too. I'm from the U.S.A.
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: [R*]Pancher on January 19, 2011, 21:50:08 pm
In all topics i see a "last reply" by the "ARPD Forum" which is an advertisement of the Google ad's.. very annoying... I'm from Sweden!!
I see it too. I'm from the U.S.A.

seems this setting is made to everyone no matter where you live after reading some more regarding this subject.
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: Julio. on January 19, 2011, 21:53:35 pm
For some reason this page insanely lags up my iPod Touch

What is so special about this compared to the normal Argonath forums that causes it to lag?
Title: Re: Commercial advertisement
Post by: ~Legend~ on January 20, 2011, 00:06:00 am
While they might be "meh" to see around, I think it is an important source of funding for Argonath.

But I think the ads. at the bottom of topics that appear in the form of posts are a little annoying. They seem to have bumped up one or two topics as well.

Let's see if we get used to them.
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