swphreak Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 I'm copying this from aresen: Originally posted by RayJones What i find interesting is, that most of the SW-forums got TONS of banners while others like MI-Discussion only got one waaaay down down down at the page's bottom. What is up with that? the MI and mojo forums have 1 or 2 ads while the other forums have like 4-6 ads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-8252 Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 And what's with that incredibly horrid "Swat the fly and win a free iPod!" ad that makes the fly buzzing noise. I have to mute my speakers when I go to LF now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 I think there are too many ads in general on LucasForums, so when I designed the layouts for the MI, Mojo, and Sam & Max forums, I did them with far less ads. Whoever did those SW forums slapped on about five ads. Not that complicated. I think in the future LucasForums should try to balance this with just a couple ads on each page be it SW or Monkey Island... the five or six ads we have now per page is a bit more like a porn or warez site than an upstanding discussion forum community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Hey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tk102 Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Folks over at Starwarsknights.com agree. http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=144439 As Rhett says, though, hopefully vb3 will have fewer ads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
90SK Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Originally posted by TK-8252 And what's with that incredibly horrid "Swat the fly and win a free iPod!" ad that makes the fly buzzing noise. I have to mute my speakers when I go to LF now. Yes, audio ads are a grim surprise I think we would all like to avoid here. Also, whats up with the near-porn ads? Not that I care ( ) but when I have a parent of aquaintence pass by its "sort of" awkward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 I think one google ad on the top, and one on the bottom would be fine. That is what most sites do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 Weirdly enough we have a Google one at the top, but we've still stuck with UGO for the bottom and any side ads. Would we lose out at all if we just stuck with Google? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurgan Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 Originally posted by C. Skye Yes, audio ads are a grim surprise I think we would all like to avoid here. Also, whats up with the near-porn ads? Not that I care ( ) but when I have a parent of aquaintence pass by its "sort of" awkward. Yeah no kidding. When I'm at the library doing a quick check of the forums & email I have to click past some pages quickly for fear somebody will think I'm some perv abusing their computer privileges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raxor Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 seems like ugo changed their ad providers, they arent blocked now the most annoying ad for me is the get 10000 free smileys... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Isaac Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Why are the ads at the top in a different language for me? Kto wygrał Pokojową Nagrode Nobla w roku 2002? reklamy Google dla usług dobroczynnych Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt-- Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Originally posted by James Isaac Why are the ads at the top in a different language for me? It's possible that you have your default language set to something other than english. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Don't ads set the language based on where you live? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt-- Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Originally posted by ZBomber Don't ads set the language based on where you live? Sometimes. But google has a language preference and I'm willing to be it would serve up language specific ads based on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeskywalker1 Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 I don't see the point of having three of the same ad, one on the side, and the same thing listed twice at the bottom. Yes, audio ads are a grim surprise I think we would all like to avoid here. Also, whats up with the near-porn ads? Not that I care ( ) but when I have a parent of aquaintence pass by its "sort of" awkward. I do care, even though I am a guy, Im trying to live a christian lifestyle and would appreciate not seeing an ad showing off a women's boobs, or something. Can't you guys just get a bunch of Google ads or something? I notice the side ads take longer to load than the others, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Isaac Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Originally posted by matt-- It's possible that you have your default language set to something other than english. I live in England, and I haven't set any preferences to other languages. They aren't in foreign languages all the time though, just sometimes. At the moment the google one is a public service ad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Lion54 Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 James Isaac- Your post cracked me up. Its like on the Spanish channel when all you can pick out are the product names. (unless you speak spanish) I cant stop laughing at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Isaac Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 James Isaac- Your post cracked me up. Its like on the Spanish channel when all you can pick out are the product names. (unless you speak spanish) I cant stop laughing at that. Heh, it reminds me of this Russian adventure game site I went to which had a small page about my game: Описание Не уследив за своим маленьким братом, герой вынужден спасать бедолагу из лап инопланетян... Двумерная игрушка, которую начал делать в начале 2003-го Джеймс Айзек (James Isaac). Используется не особо популярный движок SLUDGE. I found it funny that in the middle of all the russian i couldn't make out was my name . Wow, on the page for viewing this topic, there were 8 different huge ads at the bottom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Gaarni Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 The most annoying things about ads (since I got FireFox but always has been though) is we are trying to keep a cheat free policy, striking hard down on anyone linking to these "Get 1 million Credits on any server for Star Wars Galaxies" sites, and then there is a perfectly clickable ad on the top of the forums for anyone to use. I feel like a hypocrit. We need more control over what ads that can go on LucasForums I think. I sent a mail to Google about it some months ago, and they told me we should have the ability to block ads we don't want to show up or something like that. Any of you Admins know anything about that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 Perhaps they were refering to ad blocking software which they may assume you have as most people have them. Firefox even has a blocking that can block banner ads on websites. Then again, they could just be being cryptic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Gaarni Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 When I said "we" I ment the Admins of LucasForums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 I was refering to what Google said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Gaarni Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 Yes, I know, that's why I felt I needed to clearify that Google said the Admins of LucasForum should have the power to choose which ads that they want to be displayed and which should not, or something to that effect. It's been awhile since I got it, it's on my old computer. Maybe I should fire it up and see what the mail said again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 oh, okay, i get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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