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Originally Posted by Dragon Ball Thank you for your time and money. It is appreciated. You shouldn't be seeing the ads anyhow as you're a mod. Mods do not see the ads. |
I'm seeing them now.
And reguardless of whether I see the ads or not, deceptive/intrusive advertising WILL discourage intelligent users from sticking around here.
Frankly, there are too many other places, just as good, to hang out... and they haven't got ads in the middle of every page.
This WILL backfire in terms of forum quality and morale. They did the same thing on Gamefaqs last year and reversed it in 8 hours because so many people were so unhappy.
On a site with so few users to begin with, we should be doing all we can to make membership MORE appealing; not more annoying/expensive.
As for take-take-take... I think as a free translator, scanner and owner of an ad-free website that costs over $300 a year to host: I know all about it. This site "takes" quite a lot from me too. Magazines are not free, nor is my time. That's the way fandom works now, unfortunately. But you win more flies with honey than vinegar.
I would gladly pay $20 if I thought it would be used to improve this site. But I haven't seen enough improvement here to give me that confidence.
This site WAS improving... gradually... but this is a step in the wrong direction.