Tony
Staff member
I just received an email from a new member signup that, in translation read "This forum is horrible, you can not navigate, without those warnings being annoying and forcing all the time!".
I almost never run my ad blocker on any site because I know why they have ads. They are to pay for the server and maybe a little extra to put some beans on a plate at night. But after I received this email, I enabled my ad blocker on my site, this site. It has been a year or so since I have seen what it is actually like and I figured I needed a refresher.
So I enabled my ad blocker and boom, I get that little pink box in the lower left. I scroll the page for 10 seconds and the full page blockadblock page comes up, I click on the link and keep testing. I get the top pink banners but I have yet to get the one that is most annoying to me, that one with the red header that darkens the screen.
Trust me everyone, I know ads are horrible. I hate looking at them but I know what they are for. The large Rc sites are just absolutely FILLED with ads from every company out there. Both sidebars are FULL of ads and for those sites, yup, ad blocker to the rescue! But our site has very few ads compared to those sites. I am running a new little deal from google where they can put ads in different places and I have yet to hear anything negative about this.
In most cases, you will see an ad above the forum but below the header, there is also an ad in the sidebar. The sidebar ad is the google ad, but I do have two other boxes there, one for gearbest and one for banggood. Those are there strictly because if you do click on that ad and head over there and purchase something, I get a very small little kickback that helps the site. In fact I just checked and default settings on the ad block, those two little banner blocks are still there.
If you run ad blocker, trust me, I get it. You guys are actually the ones that I want to hear from on this matter. I ask you guys to disable your ad blocker on this site and please tell me your experience. Are the ads too obtrusive? Where can we make changes to help keep you happy with seeing the ads and still be able to pay the bills around here every month? Please post up, I would really like to hear from you all on this matter.
I almost never run my ad blocker on any site because I know why they have ads. They are to pay for the server and maybe a little extra to put some beans on a plate at night. But after I received this email, I enabled my ad blocker on my site, this site. It has been a year or so since I have seen what it is actually like and I figured I needed a refresher.
So I enabled my ad blocker and boom, I get that little pink box in the lower left. I scroll the page for 10 seconds and the full page blockadblock page comes up, I click on the link and keep testing. I get the top pink banners but I have yet to get the one that is most annoying to me, that one with the red header that darkens the screen.
Trust me everyone, I know ads are horrible. I hate looking at them but I know what they are for. The large Rc sites are just absolutely FILLED with ads from every company out there. Both sidebars are FULL of ads and for those sites, yup, ad blocker to the rescue! But our site has very few ads compared to those sites. I am running a new little deal from google where they can put ads in different places and I have yet to hear anything negative about this.
In most cases, you will see an ad above the forum but below the header, there is also an ad in the sidebar. The sidebar ad is the google ad, but I do have two other boxes there, one for gearbest and one for banggood. Those are there strictly because if you do click on that ad and head over there and purchase something, I get a very small little kickback that helps the site. In fact I just checked and default settings on the ad block, those two little banner blocks are still there.
If you run ad blocker, trust me, I get it. You guys are actually the ones that I want to hear from on this matter. I ask you guys to disable your ad blocker on this site and please tell me your experience. Are the ads too obtrusive? Where can we make changes to help keep you happy with seeing the ads and still be able to pay the bills around here every month? Please post up, I would really like to hear from you all on this matter.