I wonder if Netnanny will block Evony ads for concerned Aussie parents.
All porn is blocked in Australia. For the childrens’ sake. They wrote computer programs that protect children, and do a perfect job.
As for the Evony ads, I haven’t noticed them. I had never seen the one pictured in the above-linked article before. I usually get text ads in the banner spaces. Sometimes I see an interracial dating ad.
Okay I am living under a rock called complete ignorance. I had no idea Aussies couldn’t get porn on the net… my god… While the U.S. liberates Iraq millions of people are suffering in Oz. I am so sorry.
I’m tempted to post a big picture of naked women just to lend a hand to the entire continent of Australia for a brief moment in time until the censors block it.
I can only get off on still pictures.
I’m curious, just how effective is saturation advertising like this anyway?
Both.
Indeed. The ads are bad enough that I adBlock Qt3 at work.
SAVE THE TA-TAS!!!
Holy shit! I just got an Evony ad that had a guy in it. He was wearing armor and had a sword and was making a war face!
There were no ta-ta’s in evidence anywhere!
No worries, the girl ads also started with them fully dressed. Just give it a few more days …
And I don’t like it when people don’t pay to use my screen space to serve adds.
Seriously though, why does he care?
The basis for funding the running of this site is advertising. It’s part of the deal wen using this (and many other free forums). I find value in being a member of QT3 and in return, I allow ads to be displayed – even the annoying Evony ones.
If you dont like the ads, click on them.
Seriously.
running ad block in some ways loses money for Tom. Clicking the ads loses money for evony. I know which I’d choose.
I’m guessing it costs tham $0.05 per click.
Actually, it’s a win-win from that perspective. Evony loses money, Tom gets part of said money. But I wouldn’t condone that.
Anyway, do it too much and Google will throw the clicks out.
I’m paying out of my own pocket for the bandwidth you’re using when you read this forum. That’s why I care. If, however, you’d like to foot the bill, let me know and I’ll invoice you.
-Tom
Really people, Tom may have ticked some of you off for the way he runs things IN HIS OWN HOUSE lately, some of his decisions have even mystified me, but this ad-block discussion is stupid. I don’t click on them enough to pay for the amount of time I read posts here, but I sure as hell know it’s wrong to block them.
Fuck it, Tom, close down the forum for a week or set up a subsciption fee. A five dollars a year subscription will clean up a lot of your problems here, and tell everyone that pays it that the ads will still be there, and if they don’t like it they can go to hell.
I confess, I got mad over at wired.com at some ad and started blocking a bunch of stuff. I clicked on every url that looked like an ad until the offensive one went away, I was young and impulsive.
That made the ads on Qt3 go away, and I didn’t know how to get them back.
But then Firefox got a new version, and now the ads are back and I don’t feel guilty anymore.
Oh yeah, and Evony boobies.
Me too*. The worst thing is that I won’t be able to tell my “that bloke banned me from his forum for a week” anecdote when I’m watching my mother’s West Wing box set with her**. Though in retrospect he did me a favour because I was moving house at the time and not having QT3 as a distraction was probably a good thing.
*well, not really; it was a rather silly thing that I posted.
**actually, the main reason I won’t tell it is because explaining what QT3 is would be a pain in the hole.