mattrix: Sure there are costs, but couldn't donations / affiliate links cover that?

 

No. 

We already give a subscription option, which at $25/year is really cheap. 

Thanks for your thought.

@pom532: I've been finding the flashing Vodafone ad highly annoying.

 

I've blocked Vodafone ads now. 

mattrix: Ads seem strange on forums to me...
As its the users who provide the valuable content.

Paying to remove the ads so you can provide the content without annoyance just seems odd.

Sure there are costs, but couldn't donations / affiliate links cover that?

And I just went to the link in your sig...  won't be looking again after your adblocker pop-up.

LMFAO!

@blakamin:

 

@mattrix: Ads seem strange on forums to me...
As its the users who provide the valuable content.

Paying to remove the ads so you can provide the content without annoyance just seems odd.

Sure there are costs, but couldn't donations / affiliate links cover that?

 

And I just went to the link in your sig...  won't be looking again after your adblocker pop-up.

 

LMFAO!

 

Hypocrisy is what's called.

freitasm:

 

@blakamin:

 

@mattrix: Ads seem strange on forums to me...
As its the users who provide the valuable content.

Paying to remove the ads so you can provide the content without annoyance just seems odd.

Sure there are costs, but couldn't donations / affiliate links cover that?

 

And I just went to the link in your sig...  won't be looking again after your adblocker pop-up.

 

LMFAO!

 

 

Hypocrisy is what's called.

 

Understatement of the day!!!!!

Many, many forums with ads. 

You obviously have no idea what are the costs involved in running a large website. Until you realise what's involved in terms of time, resources and hard cold cash then I rather not have this discussion.

Also you have posted many link drops to your personal site. Where you run ads. So don't come here preaching something but doing something different. This is not your platform.

mattrix: Mine is a blog.
I make all the content.
Not the users.
Huge difference.

Any other forums with ads you guys can point out?

Update.
After a Google.
It appears lots of kiwi forums do.
I'd never struck it before so must just be me!
I stand corrected.

mattrix: Mine is a blog.
I make all the content.
Not the users.
Huge difference.

Any other forums with ads you guys can point out?

Update.
After a Google.
It appears lots of kiwi forums do.
I'd never struck it before so must just be me!
I stand corrected.

To be perfectly honest your site is more of a portfolio than a blog. Portfolios don't run ads - take a site I run as an example (of which gets millions of hits a month) https://charlimarie.com where this a portfolio, blog etc and she doesn't run, or want ads on it as it could ruin her own self image. My own personal site has no ads or even trackers either and gets for some reason thousands of hits a month according to my server logs.

This is what you call an acceptable personal cost as it may lead to other projects and that is a bigger payment than running ads and potentially ruining your own personal self image.

Geekzone is a large site where ads are required, same with gpforums else they wouldn't exist.

I bet despite your best attempts to get people to whitelist your site (with using blockadblock) you still use an adblocker yourself on the rest of the internet.

Some of the largest forums in the world:

• reddit - has ads
• IGN boards - has ads
• XDA Developers - has ads
• 4chan - has ads
• Ars Technica forums - has ads
• Macrumours - has ads

Yeh, it was a bit of "brain fart" on my part.

*waves white flag and retreats back into cave*