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Way To Avoid Advertisements?

posted 8 years ago by MortSahlFan (257)
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I suggested that if we had a fundraiser, if it hit the equivalence of ads and all the trivia news crap, CNN, etc, would you ever remove them, Jim?

(I do see the CONTRIBUTE button on top)

[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 8 years ago

The website must cost so much that not even contributions would help. Running a website is a recurring thing, not a one time thing. You probably would have to donate like a hundred a day (well, spread over all current and incoming members).

Or do what I do and use Ad-block. I had never even noticed there were ads on this site.

[–] MortSahlFan (257) 8 years ago

I have a forum... it doesn't cost me a thing.

[–] LeiaOfLothlorien (1980) 8 years ago

Did you make it from scratch? Or use a template thing like freeforums?

[–] MortSahlFan (257) 8 years ago

the latter :)

[–] LeiaOfLothlorien (1980) 8 years ago

Then that's why yours was free. I'm pretty sure Jim coded this website himself, and therefore has to pay for hosting and such.

[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 8 years ago

-_-

[–] cathal (23) 8 years ago

A website costs about a hundred dollars a year to host on shared hosting plus 10 dollars a year for the domain name
Can even do it cheaper if you have a VPS in which case its about a hundred dollars a year for all the domains together.

[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 8 years ago

What about labor for all the coding he has done up until this point? He needs to put food on the table and he wants to be paid for his efforts!

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

I think Jim could offer a "Premium Membership" where you pay for the option to not have any ads.

[–] Veloxydiedora (131) 8 years ago

Jim should make a page where hundreds of ads are laid out, and the users will have to scroll from top to bottom to unlock an ad-free experience for the next 12/24 hours. Win Win

[–] Traveler (211) 8 years ago

Not at all.
Displaying ads is one thing, but people are expected to click on them if we want Jim to get some money. That's how it works.

So mindlessly scrolling down on such a page without even looking at the ads won't bring anything to him, I'm afraid.

[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 8 years ago

If that were the case, he would have done without the ads or this site would have all ready been closed down. I think he gets so revenue, regardless.

[–] Traveler (211) 8 years ago

He's selling an ad placement, so yeah there are some money for that. A few cents at least.

Not for a "so huh, I have a page people will check every 24h and your ad will be drowned among 99 others. Care to gimme some money?"-case, though.