I don't understand why you need to bring up the fact that I have a horrible disease into this thread. It has nothing to do with the current discussion.

Hey don't blame me, I'm not the one who screwed that crack whore without protection

I think we should take the ads thing a bit farther. we should make the ads fun. turn them into a game. add tons of color and animate them. make them move around the screen and make it where you have to click on it to make it stop. the possibilities are endless. wouldn't that be fun?







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Am I the only one confused by the "it makes the OP look like he endorses a product" thing? It seems obvious, even to untrained monkeys, that they were added automatically.

<a href="http://www.thelookandsoundofperfect.com/">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../DVDTalkAd.png</a>

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I absolutely despise it. In fact they were not working properly earlier and the text was over-top of the ad which made it impossible to read. On a side not, I would pay a membership fee to do away with ads altogether. I know other sites do so, has DVDTalk considered it. I mean what would it take and what would it cost us as members?

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread....t=subscription
That's a thread from August '03 considering it, including a November '05 update from Geoff saying "it's back on the table and I'm working on it!!!" So yes, it's been considered (for a while).

Never had a problem with the ads being between posts, but I think having ads inside of someones post is rediculous and was very surprised to see that it was made to be that way intentionally.

Post #158 by The Bus had me literally laughing out loud. That's hilarious.

No sir, I don't like it.

I can't stand it, the ones that load up with sound when you open a thread are so annoying! When they first started I thought by browser had not loaded the page right and kept refreshing it, it's the worst idea ever.

They're horrible. Put them in between posts, put them on the side, put them anywhere but within people's posts. Why advertisers would want to tick-off internet forum users with this new "idea" suggestion is beyond me...it actually encourages me NOT to want to check out a product when it's shoved in my face like that. A poor, poor marketing scheme.

I hate the ad being inside of the original post. There has to be a better way get more ad revenue for you, Geoff, than using this method and piss off most of your members.

I actually like Josh's suggestion of a sidebar of ads like on AVS. I've actually clicked on a few of the AVS ads because they were laid out in an easy to read way that I could look at before or after reading the actual posts in the thread. I always ignore ads between posts because I'm trying to read the next post, and the in-post ads are very aesthetically displeasing, which make me far less inclined to look at them, let alone click them. But I'd be all for the sidebar run of ads. And for the record, I have no problem with the HD DVD ads.

as much as I like the new ads, why are they promoting things like selling movies on DVD that haven't even been released on DVD, and DVD duplication, like in this ad:

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1177203899

Yet another vote for UGH! :grumble:

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Ugh. Not a fan of how things are reformated when the ads are inserted into posts.

My favorite post ever! rotfl :lol: :up:

Oh, I forgot to mention, BWG's post might be the funniest thing I've ever read on the internet.

I don't hate it, it will just take some getting used to.

This ad is in poor taste

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=498613

Sucks

Meh, not crazy about it. Ads within posts are instrusive but IMHO ads between posts are even more distracting and annoying.

I'm another one that would be willing to pay a subscription for an ad-free site, but barring that GK has to make enough green somewhere to keep this baby afloat.

Some Otters dressed like Indians were spotted throwing advertisements into the harbor this morning. :eek:

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