Then just turn them off. I wouldn't think that would be such a difficult task for a coder. Never heard of Adblock?
But on my community forums these ads are placed by local businesses and offer a small revenue stream for our nonprofit, and are a source of local information for readers. We don't allow any flashing banners. I encourage our members not to turn them off.
Again, vb really needs a built-in well implemented ad system for those that want it. For those unfamiliar with ad blockers, I suppose an option to turn them off could be added in the UserCP.
Anyway, this topic has strayed way too far. The simple question "Why doesn't vb.org have advertising? Because we don't want to." has turned into some kind of bash fest against in-your-face advertising in general.
Adblock may hide the ad but experience with other vbulletin resources is that ads which are surrounded by tables leaves a good bit of redundant spacing. Anyway, I have nothing against ads, they are just not the klind of thing you want here. If you even bothered reading my response you would have read that I gave a good explanation on why ads wouldn't work here, and why vbulletin should never implement ads on this forum. You quoted about 5% of my actual response.
So let me explain, Shelley = hasn't got a problem with ads. Shelley = (and i'm sure many users) would have a problem with ads being placed here. Yes they are a nuisance, and yes I know certain forums depend on them for additiional income so you see, shelley doesn't have a vendetta towards ads.
On a related note. A certain vbulletin resource forum I staffed at which was a nice thriving community was taken over by a top vbulletin seo company which placed ads to the hilt and that alone killed the community. Everyones work had gone to waste at the expense of the people who contributed by a company that really didn't need to advertise their product. And I'm not speaking about the odd ad, I'm talking about ads in every page you visited and the memberbase didn't like this one little bit. Now, the forum is dead.
Hopefully, I put my point and my mediocre example across a little better to you.
12-05-2008, 03:36 PM
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