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This forum is making enough money as it is from members, sponsors, traders and now we get these rubbish flash ad's that just wastes our bandwidth?

I'm logging on from work and i am only allowed to use 1gig per month. In any event i exceed this this limit i pay $120 per gig.

Flash does use allot of bandwidth, every time you click on a page it has to re-load over again and again and again.. just using endless amount of bandwidth.

I know the owner is trying to make money and he's making more than enough but for crying out loud..

I know the owner is trying to make money and he's making more than enough but for crying out loud..

lol he is, is he? you are obviously across the details of trader income and hosting costs. Unlike many other, this forum is not run on a commercial basis and never has been.

In fact, you aren't even a donator so all you have contributed to the cost of running this forum was increasing it with your complaint :P

lol he is, is he? you are obviously across the details of trader income and hosting costs. Unlike many other, this forum is not run on a commercial basis and never has been.

In fact, you aren't even a donator so all you have contributed to the cost of running this forum was increasing it with your complaint :P

I'm no IT guru but i know people in the business.. We can all agree that this forum has a massive traffic flow, it's quite possibly the biggest I've seen with thousands of members logging in and many more in hundreds lurking around each and every day. Even in this instance as I am typing this, there's 482 active users on a friggen Saturday night.

When you have a high traffic flowing site or forum in this case, it can be utilized for ads, sponsors and sellers/traders.

Just by my presence in this forum and with the many topics i open up in the wasteland section, forum owner is benefiting from me rather than other way around. I actually help him to get more traffic to the forum. More traffic = bigger pay cheque by the advertisers. The ad's began with small scale importers or by small business owners 5-6 years ago, where as now we have ad's of numerous banks, foxtel and vodafone for crying out loud lol..

The income this place generates for the forum is enough for him to quit his day job.

I'm at home right now so I'm not really complaining coz my adsl limit is 70gig which is more than enough.. it's more of a nuisance when i browse the forum at work.

Edited by Barbarian

I love the ads , ads are good , ads make money which means I don't have to pay jack crap to access and use a rather excellent forum.

I friken hate ads that freeze the screen and stop the site loading causing me to close the window and start again.

Who the fruck do these advertisers think they are ?

Let me tell them--just so they know-- they're the ones I note and will NEVER ever deal with.

What long lunch did they think up that friken idea at anyway.

Jeez they're annoying.

More traffic = bigger pay cheque by the advertisers.

There is you're answer right there.. If he takes away the adverts then he loses that money.. Hence no income for the site again.. You really are that stupid?

Traders are only going to pay if sales are made.. Outta that 482 users.. How many are buying.. f**k all i'd say.. So why would they pay a great deal more without the return..

If Prank was making money on it, who cares (not saying you are).. Did you know that every business makes a profit on what they provide? He could just shut it down.. And leave you to post your racist shit elsewhere?

Hi,

Another vote for the removal of these drop down ads. They seem to be on the increase (Land Rover then Vodafone and now Foxtel). Nothing against advertising in general but these ads are overly intrusive.

They do interfere with the running of the board. I've had the Add Reply and Preview Post buttons disappear when one of these ads was accidentally triggered (which is obviously how they are designed - to be triggered by accident). I've also had the ad block the loading of another page.

There was an earlier suggestion to change the banner. An easy fix (I think) is to put another SAU logo (or some other static image) on the right hand side of the banner area. Then there's less chance of rolling over the ad when using the scroll bar.

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programming suggestion - look away if you don't like nerdy stuff:

(banner section of the website code)

<table width="100%">

<tr>

<td width="25%"> (change width)

<a href='http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/forums.html'><img src='./style_images/sau_logo.gif' alt='IPB' style='vertical-align:top' border='0' /></a>

</td>

<td>

<script type="text/javascript">

GA_googleFillSlot("Skylines_internal_automotive_top_728x90"); (ad comes from here, complain to Google?)

</script>

</td>

<td width="25%"> (put another logo on the right hand side - should force ad into the middle)

<a href='http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/forums.html'><img src='./style_images/sau_logo.gif' alt='IPB' style='vertical-align:top' border='0' /></a>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

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cheers,

JH

Edited by jrh001

As i mentioned above, i dont think anyone who's accessing the site for free should be complaining about the cost to them, if you pay a membership fee then you might have a place to start, but still not solid ground).

As to the rest, yeah they suck, and yeah the ad vendor blows, but you cant just turn them off or boycott them, business doesnt work like that.

Instead a more mutually agreeable one needs to be implemented, swapping the banner ads with the sau logo is one suggestion, but there might be others.

Feel free to voice your annoyance, but try and make useful suggestions to fixes as well, not just whine and rage.

I don't have any gripes with advertising - I understand the costs of running high-end hosting through my exployer. I've also donated to these forums, because I feel they're worth supporting.

However, these particular types of 'drop down banner ads' have caused me a number of problems. Essentially, at least on firefox, if you're on a page that has a form to be entered (login username/password, or a new post on a thread), the form seems to get 'blanked' over. Sometimes when the banner ad flows back to the top, the form doesn't re-appear.

This has led to a number of situations where I've lost a message I've been typing in has been lost, and I've had to type it over again, which can get a bit frustrating.

I honestly hope the administrators will consider not supporting these particular types of ads.

Barbs, just quietly, if I was counting the pennies, I'd seriously be willing to forgo the 0.1c that you generate in adview revenue in exchange for not having to trawl through your shithouse threads everytime someone reports your posts.

I've got issues with the dropdown banner ads covering quicksearch forms and links to the control panel etc. as well, so I get what you guys are saying. it is a problem we'll look into.

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Any headway on this yet? Now the Rosemount Australian Fashion week one is being a bitch. This one actually causes my computers to freeze briefly when it opens up (which was great for the CD I was trying to burn... ;)). As well as the usual blanking of the reply form/buttons.

Maybe something can be written into the contract with these advertisers that if they change their ad from a set size after it's agreed upon to one of these BS pop out things, then their ad will be taken out of rotation until it's back to a normal ad like it was meant to be?

And why is it that the pop out ones load more frequently that any others?

Edited by Isola

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