I don't like the movies that are being advertized in my posts! I am afraid people will think I am promoting those stupid, inane, sappy, movies!

I think a $30 yearly membership "with possible perks" sounds about right.

I prefer the other ads, however, since DVDTalk is free, Geoff can do what he needs to so he can make ends meet so the board stays alive!

My work seems to filter out all these ads, and I kept seeing all these empty blocks of text which was really confusing me. When I got home I finally saw that it was ads that were causing it. I much prefer them after the first post. It makes the posts annoying to read.

I think it's great and is long overdo. I was posting in a forum recently and saw an ad about heat pump repair. Who knew that I have a heat pump issue? Only the advertisers, that's who!

I'm in the "not a fan" camp.

Good thing I've limited my DVDTalk time to a few minutes a day on the TV and Video Game threads.

But if you have to pay the bills... you gots ta do what you gots ta do.

Allow me to present a one-act play I wrote:

INTERIOR - DAY - A PSYCHIATRISTS OFFICE

Gary: Doctor, how can I tell when I've become obsessed with DVDTalk?
Doctor: Well Mr. Numan, when you can recall intimate details of threads posted three years ago.
Gary: Oh, crap.

CURTAIN

I don't like the "inside posts"

Everytime someone "Quote"(s) the OP you have this Ad that is brought down - it screws with the formating of the OP.

I wouldn't be so bad if the Ad was not brought down everytime someone quoted the OP

I think it's fair to say that just about everyone hates the new ads. Answer me this - was the way it was before, the ads after the posts, not bringing in enough money so you decided to change it to this, or are you just doing this purely as a test to see how it would look this way, and it will still bring in the same amount of money?

Jeesh these are terrible, even the ads between the first two posts were better than having an ad right inside my post! I'll be very selective about where I post and unfortunately how much I come here if this type of ad is going to stay.

Isn't there a better solution?

I totally agree. Back in the days of pop-under ads here, there'd be the same ad for weeks on end. So if I ever happened across the product in a store, I felt an irrational hatred towards it. There's nothing that could get me to (intentionally) click on an ad (anywhere on the internet for that matter).

But if it pays the bills...

I hate these ads as well. I very rarely visit the feedback forum since overall I think that DVDtalk is a pretty good site, but because of the inside ads and those loud HD-DVDs ones, I had to come over and agree with the complaints.

I would much rather having large blocks of ads between the first and second posts.

I imagine the amount of money is based on click-throughs, so we'll have to put up with this for several days to get good data I imagine.

Everyone keeps talking about these HD-DVD ads - apparently I completely missed those. No idea what everyone is talking about.

Yeah, I can see a lot of people messing with their posts to avoid having the ads inside of them (as Dignam mentioned) or adding some negative comments about the ad (as in Randy's post). I feel bad for Geoff since he needs money to run the site, which seems to put him at the mercy of the ad companies to some degree, but this seems like a bad direction to go. Hopefully he'll let the sponsors know that many of us really dislike this idea. I don't click on internet ads anyway, but I think I'll take extra effort to avoid any sponsors that are featured in the in-post ads.

I'm not coming back until those ads are gone.

How will you know they're gone?

Last time Miss Peach, this time Mrs. Danger. Next time the ads are changed will we lose Mrs.Nesbit?

I don't believe that forced advertisements inside our posts (of all things) are going to help sell anything.

Once a person's offended, they shut down to the thing that caused the offense.

I see this strategy as counterproductive at best.

-Paul

Well said.

For the next logical step, advatars, I call dibs on this:

No way, that woman's sticking around for the long haul.

Does anyone know if that Richard Gere movie, The Hoax is in theaters now? I've been searching the internet but I'm not a very good searcher. If only there was a way to have such information added to the messages on the internet that I'm already reading all the time, that would be awesome.

<i>Edit:</i> THANK YOU, Geoff! I see it!!

Uhhh, you didn't get the memo?

Chris

You actually waited more than a minute so you could edit your add?

You put The Edit King to shame!

Chris