What happened to Amazon?

BrotherTobious · June 12, 2009, 09:09:10 AM

Have I missed something?? Since when are we sponsered by Crucial? Dont have a problem with it just wondered.

TeaLeaf · June 12, 2009, 09:33:34 AM

We have an announcement coming in shortly announcing some Crucial sponsorship for the upcoming LAN. We thought the top position was more appropriate for the time being. We're also trying to get a more appropriately sized banner from them.

As for Amazon, we are not sponsored by Amazon, we choose to use one of their advert links to promote our affiliate link from which the community gets a commission. The Amazon banner is currently at the bottom.

There are several positions in the forum we could place these banners, so they might yet change again.

TL.

BrotherTobious · June 12, 2009, 09:35:57 AM

Thanks TL, sorry I meant the afliated link with Amazon.

OldBloke · June 12, 2009, 11:26:58 AM

If, like me, you are not seeing the Crucial banner then you will need to add http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ to your ad-blocker's exclusion list.

Bob · June 12, 2009, 07:56:21 PM

I've got a small comment regarding commercial banners/advertisement etc. on the site:

Animated GIFs, Flash or anything else that moves or blinks or whatever I find very annoying. Such items will be blocked for sure (which is bad I guess, cause then they don't generate any income for dMw). I also find it intrusive when such items (or any kind of ad-banner with poor-looking graphics) are place in main focus areas of a web page - especially the header/top section.

I do definitely see the value some kind of advertisement can bring to dMw in form of some extra cash, but if something like that should be done, why not go for a much nicer and more discrete alternative, such as Google's AdSense?

Just my :2cents:

Anonymous · June 12, 2009, 08:07:17 PM

Quote from: OldBloke;278892If, like me, you are not seeing the Crucial banner then you will need to add http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ to your ad-blocker's exclusion list.

Great, more adverts. Thanks for giving me the URL to block!

smilodon · June 12, 2009, 11:12:14 PM

I have to agree with the above. I loath flashing adverts. I have the Ad block plus Firefox plugin so I don't see any adverts at all. I strongly recommend it. Although it does seem a bit odd blocking stuff from my own community. :g:

It occurs to me that as we have a subscription with it's associated income, do we need banner ads at all? They look ugly and undermine what is otherwise a very nice looking web site/forum. Just my pennies worth.

OldBloke · June 13, 2009, 12:06:21 AM

Thanks Bob and Smilo for your constructive comments. We do take your points on board and we are looking at this again.

Blunt · June 13, 2009, 01:44:49 AM

It's only the 1 banner, and TBH I don't even notice it until someone mentions it.
I'm not bothered about it at all, and if I was that concerned about it I would use adblock.
If it's supporting the community, It can flash as much as it likes
Not an issue for me:)

TeaLeaf · June 13, 2009, 09:04:36 AM

Quote from: BlueBall;278956Great, more adverts. Thanks for giving me the URL to block!

Thought you were using an adbloicker and not seeing it anyway?

smilodon · June 13, 2009, 09:05:17 AM

You make a fair point. Horses for courses (what the hell does that saying actually mean).

There is just something nice about a 'clean' web site and forum. It's so rare these days and quite refreshing. Oddly I'm more likely to stop and read through a site with zero adverts. If I start seeing a lot of banner ads then I'm inclined to just click on through and move on somewhere else. One advert is hardly a big deal though I'll admit.

Snokio · June 13, 2009, 11:01:30 AM

Doesn't bother me, as long as we don't start having pop ups, or adverts in between posts or within posts like they do on some forums, it's fine

OldBloke · June 13, 2009, 11:16:18 AM

Quote from: Snokio;278999Doesn't bother me, as long as we don't start having pop ups, or adverts in between posts or within posts like they do on some forums, it's fine

We will *never* have those.

Anonymous · June 13, 2009, 03:14:15 PM

Quote from: TeaLeaf;278987Thought you were using an adbloicker and not seeing it anyway?

I am using an adblocker but that that flash advert wasn't being blocked.

Frankly I see this as the start of a slippery slope and, as has been said, it was so nice to have an advert free site.

Hopefully OB will see that as more constructive so he doesn't have to make any more pointed posts :sideways:

Jabbs · June 13, 2009, 04:47:18 PM

Quote from: Blunt;278973It's only the 1 banner, and TBH I don't even notice it until someone mentions it.
I'm not bothered about it at all, and if I was that concerned about it I would use adblock.
If it's supporting the community, It can flash as much as it likes
Not an issue for me:)

I don't take notice of the adverts either. Now that it has been pointed out I think it's a shame that our dMw banner is now smaller to make space for the advert but as I said I don't raelly care about it. My reason for visiting the site/forums is for the content so as long as that isn't effect (as mentioned re adverts between posts etc) then I'm happy.