Annoying Advertisments

[GateWorld]

A little bit about GateWorld's advertising policy, which I hope will demonstrate how very conservative we are compared to most sites out there (especially most sites in the TV / movie / entertainment / young male primary demographic):

- GateWorld does not allow pop-up, pop-under, or "In Vue" (layered on the screen over the page content) advertisements. If you see pop-ups while browsing GateWorld, you probably have adware that's snuck it's way onto your computer.

- GateWorld does not allow advertisements that link to sites that peddle in adware or scumware, when we are aware of it. (If you come across a suspect ad, please let us know!)

- GateWorld does not allow advertisements for alcohol, tobacco, or gambling.

- GateWorld does not allow adult-ish ads (like the lusty close-up on female body parts that one dating service is currently using in its online advertising).

- GateWorld does not allow deceptive advertisements. If we see anything like "You are today's winner! Click here to claim your prize!" we'll pull it faster than you can say "takunitagaminituron."

- GateWorld does not allow visually annoying advertisements. This is obviously a judgment call, and for the time being we've decided to allow some of the point-and-click ad "games" like the flittering PSPs. We don't allow anything that is extremely flashy and seizure-inducing like you will see elsewhere.

All in all, we hope that the ads strike a good balance between financially supporting the site and not crapping it up and making everyone leave. Your suggestions to [email protected] are always coveted.

Darren

[Buggy542]

I think at home Norton Antivirus and Internet Security and stuff blocks the top ads. I came to the forum before I went to school and I didn't notice them. Maybe I'm blinder than I thought

I think the ones that are next to the banner show up sometimes lol.

But, I did just notice something... I went to the blog section and this is what I get:

[an error occured while processing this directive]

I refreshed a couple times and still got the same thing.

I tried that too, and got the exact same message. So don't worry, it's not just you.

I have Norton AntiVirus... and I still get the ads... Maybe it's just that I have an older version or something.

[GateWorld]

Thanks for the head's up! It seems I've managed to break Joe's blog. You can see it here without the errors but with a misaligned nav menu. I'll fix those errors.

[MartoufMarty]

Thanks for the head's up! It seems I've managed to break Joe's blog. You can see it here without the errors but with a misaligned nav menu. I'll fix those errors.

No problem, and thanks

That last entry had made me hungry for ice cream... Ooh, it's lunch time anyways...

[Anubis345]

yeah where did the advertisements come from

[ShadowMaat]

I would assume the ads are a way of defraying the cost of hosting Gateworld with a reliable service. So either we deal with a few flashy ads (which can be poofed with an ad-stripper) or we go back to somewhere less stable and deal with frequent crashes and outages and not being able to access the forum for hours/days at a time.

Your call.

Well, OK, actually it isn't your call, but you get the idea...

[Skydiver]

I would assume the ads are a way of defraying the cost of hosting Gateworld with a reliable service. So either we deal with a few flashy ads (which can be poofed with an ad-stripper) or we go back to somewhere less stable and deal with frequent crashes and outages and not being able to access the forum for hours/days at a time.

Your call.

Well, OK, actually it isn't your call, but you get the idea...

yep, that is most likely it.

I mean, i can only IMAGINE the bandwidth a site like this pulls. and, unfortunately, it can become a victim of its own success. more users, more bandwidth, less hosting companies that are willing to take it on (and hosting companies, IN GENERAL, have a reputation of promising you the moon, delivering a moon pie and not refunding you your money)

advertising is a necessary evil.


don't mean it's not annoying, but it is a fact of life

[Greg]

If you calculate server hardware, bandwidth they are relatively inexpensive in comparison with human hours spent on maintainence and continual updates to the site/forums, and moderation the cost of running the site runs into the thousands of dollars a month.

[MartoufMarty]

If you calculate server hardware, bandwidth they are relatively inexpensive in comparison with human hours spent on maintainence and continual updates to the site/forums, and moderation the cost of running the site runs into the thousands of dollars a month.

Holy crap!

If I had money, I'd donate some money to you guys... Ack. That's a lot of money!

[ShadowMaat]

If I had money, I'd donate some money to you guys... Ack. That's a lot of money!

Tried to do that once. I was politely turned down. *sniff* But I don't take it personally. *sniffle* Not really...

[GatetheWay]

It's kind of sad really... yesterday, when I saw the site under contruction, I thought maybe the Omnipedia was finally being updated. You can imagine my mismay when I found out it was only to install a new advertisment. I have nothing against GateWorld making more money. I just got my hopes up.

[Skydiver]

one way you can help is, if you ever buy anything through amazon, come to gateworld first and enter amazon through gateworld. darren then gets a 'bounty' on things that are purchased.

it's a win-win

you get cool stuff that you want, he gets moolah and we all have fun

[ShadowMaat]

Oh trust me, I've spent small fortunes on Amazon. For Gateworld's sake, of course.

[Madeleine]

I wonder why all the ads at the top of this page are for Skydiving courses?

[Shipperahoy]

Oddly enough there are no ads showing up at the top of the page for me. It's just the Gateworld banner and then just blank blue space. Wierd.