View Poll Results: How do you feel about Ads inside your posts?
I like it!
9
3.54%
I don't like it!
223
87.80%
I could get used to it over time.
22
8.66%
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What's up with ads INSIDE posts? Please Vote! Ads inside your posts? Yea or Nay?
#51
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Originally Posted by nevermind
Yup. The one where CinemaNut is telling everyone to go fuck themselves has them all over the place.
#53
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Ah, good catch. Mine is set to 40 per page.
So that's another flaw with the in post ads as they'll be more annoying to some.
First only seems like a decent compromise if in post ads have to stick around. Annoying, but as X said you only read it once. First and last will cause problems with the number of posts view and having it in the last post is annoying anyway as that is what you click on a thread to read many times.
So that's another flaw with the in post ads as they'll be more annoying to some.
First only seems like a decent compromise if in post ads have to stick around. Annoying, but as X said you only read it once. First and last will cause problems with the number of posts view and having it in the last post is annoying anyway as that is what you click on a thread to read many times.
#54
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I was used to the ad between the first and second posts. This actually made me think there was something wrong with my browser. I've never seen an ad inside a post on a forum before.
I suppose I'll get used to it to, but you might want to pass along to the advertisers that I would never be more likely to purchase a product from an ad in a post vs. an ad elsewhere on the page. In fact, I'm less inclined because it feels FAR more intrusive.
I suppose I'll get used to it to, but you might want to pass along to the advertisers that I would never be more likely to purchase a product from an ad in a post vs. an ad elsewhere on the page. In fact, I'm less inclined because it feels FAR more intrusive.
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Originally Posted by Lunatikk
would it be possible to bring back the ad between the first and second posts, but keeping the ones in the post as well?
#60
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Ads IN threads were a test, too. That never went away. It never really bothered me, though. But these ads do.
Aside from the fact that they make the posts they are placed in harder to read, I really just think they're inappropriate- they cross a line. Posts should never have anything placed in them that the poster didn't put there, unless by moderator action (which is always clearly marked).
Aside from the fact that they make the posts they are placed in harder to read, I really just think they're inappropriate- they cross a line. Posts should never have anything placed in them that the poster didn't put there, unless by moderator action (which is always clearly marked).
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yeah another vote for hating them. Maybe if they were rectangle banners at the bottom of the posts and not giant squares that alter the format of the text.
#62
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Look at what they did to this post:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showpost.ph...4&postcount=51
The word "quote" appears above the ad, making it appear as though the poster put it there.
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showpost.ph...4&postcount=51
The word "quote" appears above the ad, making it appear as though the poster put it there.
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Originally Posted by Tracer Bullet
Look at what they did to this post:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showpost.ph...4&postcount=51
The word "quote" appears above the ad, making it appear as though the poster put it there.
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showpost.ph...4&postcount=51
The word "quote" appears above the ad, making it appear as though the poster put it there.
#67
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Originally Posted by gkleinman
For the record. DVD Talk runs on 5 servers and consumes monster bandwidth, the cost to just keep it up and running is pretty jaw dropping.
#68
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Originally Posted by X
I think I prefer the ad on the right of the 1st post to the ad between the 1st and 2nd posts.
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Originally Posted by gkleinman
Again guys THIS IS A TEST. <b>So give it some time</b> and we'll see how it all shakes out.
That said, I prefer the ads in the posts <b>provided</b> they are offset in some way so that it is clear they are site advertisements. Otherwise it seems like it is part of my post. Most sites handle this by wrapping ads in a div of a certain color (usually gray) with the words "Advertisement" in some way above the ad.
Like this (floated to the right, of course):
<div style="width: 315px; height: 275px; background-color: #666666; color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 10px"><div style="padding: 3px 0 3px 0">Advertisement</div><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/dabrink/banner_300x250.jpg" />
</div>
Last edited by Breakfast with Girls; 04-19-07 at 04:32 PM.
#70
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Originally Posted by Numanoid
Can you explain how this will increase revenue?
#71
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Originally Posted by Groucho
This is probably due more to accidental clicks than actual interest.
#72
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Originally Posted by Numanoid
Of that you can be sure. Which of course means that website design is now about tricking people into generating revenue rather than serving its patrons. Really quite sad.
Random goofing and DVD Talk posting is largely limited to being bored at work these days.
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I'm also having problems anytime someone is quoting another post and the ad is in the thread. I'm using IE7. The "quote" header is above the post and then the rest of the space is blank where the ad is, and the quote starts underneath the ad.