Advertising banners on websites.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

What's your thoughts on this? Hate them, love them, ignore them?

[Jason]

adblock

[Sean Hayden]

When websites only display relevant ads I don't mind and I even click them sometimes.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Reason I ask is that the host for Hyperwar is having a paradigm shift and I'm looking at finding a new home. That would probably be a commercial hosting service and that would require money. We get 600,000-1,000,000 hits per month on Hyperwar (more during school months).

[Jason]

I'd say avoid it if at all possible. It will probably annoy a large portion of your users and you'll be bombarded with angry emails. Also, IMHO, science, history, and other sites of a serious nature take a credibility hit when they have banner ads. It's just an impression.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'd say avoid it if at all possible. It will probably annoy a large portion of your users and you'll be bombarded with angry emails. Also, IMHO, science, history, and other sites of a serious nature take a credibility hit when they have banner ads. It's just an impression.

I hope I don't have to do it, but if I did I'd put a notice up about why it was being done. As content wouldn't be affect I think people would be okay with it. It might be enough to get some paid proofers as well.

[PsychoSerenity]

I'd say avoid it if at all possible. It will probably annoy a large portion of your users and you'll be bombarded with angry emails. Also, IMHO, science, history, and other sites of a serious nature take a credibility hit when they have banner ads. It's just an impression.

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I don't mind them if they're relevant and unobtrusive, but perhaps for a site like that it would be more appropriate to raise funds by donations or try and get backing from some other charity. Not sure.

[klr]

I'd say avoid it if at all possible. It will probably annoy a large portion of your users and you'll be bombarded with angry emails. Also, IMHO, science, history, and other sites of a serious nature take a credibility hit when they have banner ads. It's just an impression.

I hope I don't have to do it, but if I did I'd put a notice up about why it was being done. As content wouldn't be affect I think people would be okay with it. It might be enough to get some paid proofers as well.

Just make sure there are no ads for (e)mail order Asian brides, or anything South of that. Political ads are also likely to get up some noses.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'd say avoid it if at all possible. It will probably annoy a large portion of your users and you'll be bombarded with angry emails. Also, IMHO, science, history, and other sites of a serious nature take a credibility hit when they have banner ads. It's just an impression.

I hope I don't have to do it, but if I did I'd put a notice up about why it was being done. As content wouldn't be affect I think people would be okay with it. It might be enough to get some paid proofers as well.

Just make sure there are no ads for (e)mail order Asian brides, or anything South of that. Political ads are also likely to get up some noses.

I'd want to find a banner company that would allow us some say in what banners go on. "No political, no religious, no porn" for starters. Then the fight would start.

Up side is we might be able to afford salaries for "selected" staff.

[SteveB]

I'd say avoid it if at all possible. It will probably annoy a large portion of your users and you'll be bombarded with angry emails. Also, IMHO, science, history, and other sites of a serious nature take a credibility hit when they have banner ads. It's just an impression.

I hope I don't have to do it, but if I did I'd put a notice up about why it was being done. As content wouldn't be affect I think people would be okay with it. It might be enough to get some paid proofers as well.

I like to proofread.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'd say avoid it if at all possible. It will probably annoy a large portion of your users and you'll be bombarded with angry emails. Also, IMHO, science, history, and other sites of a serious nature take a credibility hit when they have banner ads. It's just an impression.

I hope I don't have to do it, but if I did I'd put a notice up about why it was being done. As content wouldn't be affect I think people would be okay with it. It might be enough to get some paid proofers as well.

I like to proofread.

It's a bit more than that, most of the time. The OCR program isn't the smartest program in the world, so it "guesses" when it hits a "questionable character". Those need to be fixed. That's the easy ones, taken from a professionally typeset book. Xeroxes of carbon copies of memographed documents are more ... challenging.

[Seabass]

Personally, I'm not bothered by banners as long as they're not in the middle of the screen. Popups can burn in hell though.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Personally, I'm not bothered by banners as long as they're not in the middle of the screen. Popups can burn in hell though.

Never see 'em.

[SteveB]

I'd say avoid it if at all possible. It will probably annoy a large portion of your users and you'll be bombarded with angry emails. Also, IMHO, science, history, and other sites of a serious nature take a credibility hit when they have banner ads. It's just an impression.

I hope I don't have to do it, but if I did I'd put a notice up about why it was being done. As content wouldn't be affect I think people would be okay with it. It might be enough to get some paid proofers as well.

I like to proofread.

It's a bit more than that, most of the time. The OCR program isn't the smartest program in the world, so it "guesses" when it hits a "questionable character". Those need to be fixed. That's the easy ones, taken from a professionally typeset book. Xeroxes of carbon copies of memographed documents are more ... challenging.

So more reading than proofing?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Que?