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Is that ad in OT supposed to take up so much real estate?

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Getting it right now in fact. Came here because I knew others would have already posted about this. I don't have an Ad BLocker because I know that AT gets cash from that to stay in business.... But when the ad is hugely annoying and intrusive and takes up half my screen, then I will go get an adblocker and say screw it. But hopefully someone at AT will get rid of that ad so we don't have to do that.
 
Ads could totally be avoided if there was a little thought put into automatically embedding affililiate links (amazon, for instance) into hot deals posting. I've been saying this for at least a year, and no one seems to get it.

I've made over a $1000 putting my affiliate links into some (maybe 4-7) of the hot deals here (I stopped cause one of the mod's asked me.)

Fatwallet.com does it as do a whole crapload of other sites, and they don't have any ads, certainly not huge poker related ones. In addition, quality of the posts don't suffer, all you're doing is putting affiliate links into posts people are posting anyway.
 
I've never complained about the ads here, Anand does what he has to do to support the site and I don't fault him at all for that, but that Party Poker vertical ad completely blows. Please get rid of it.
 
i think that vertical one is there by accident. it's the kind that should be located in the side bar, instead it shows up on top.
 
Originally posted by: Gnurb
Ads could totally be avoided if there was a little thought put into automatically embedding affililiate links (amazon, for instance) into hot deals posting. I've been saying this for at least a year, and no one seems to get it.

I've made over a $1000 putting my affiliate links into some (maybe 4-7) of the hot deals here (I stopped cause one of the mod's asked me.)

Fatwallet.com does it as do a whole crapload of other sites, and they don't have any ads, certainly not huge poker related ones. In addition, quality of the posts don't suffer, all you're doing is putting affiliate links into posts people are posting anyway.
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Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Horizontal ads I don't mind.

Ads for stuff I might buy I don't mind.

Ubersized vertical online gambling ads I do mind.

And WTF is that doing on a tech forum anyhow? If you've got to stoop to the level of spam, market to the demographic at least - get FleshLight to sponsor OT. I'm sure their sales would double every day for a month.

- M4H
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Scary, I agree with M4H for once. More to the point, we don't allow people to actually talk about these poker places on the forums, so why are they advertising here? I don't give a damn about these places, but if they're banned, let's make it something that goes for the ads too; the duplicity just feels dirty.
 
Originally posted by: jjones
I've never complained about the ads here, Anand does what he has to do to support the site and I don't fault him at all for that, but that Party Poker vertical ad completely blows. Please get rid of it.
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Agreed.

I don't care for the ads themselves, but when they take up so much fvcking space it's annoying. Sorry, I don't want to scroll half the page just to get to the topics.
 
Originally posted by: Gnurb
Ads could totally be avoided if there was a little thought put into automatically embedding affililiate links (amazon, for instance) into hot deals posting. I've been saying this for at least a year, and no one seems to get it.

I've made over a $1000 putting my affiliate links into some (maybe 4-7) of the hot deals here (I stopped cause one of the mod's asked me.)

Fatwallet.com does it as do a whole crapload of other sites, and they don't have any ads, certainly not huge poker related ones. In addition, quality of the posts don't suffer, all you're doing is putting affiliate links into posts people are posting anyway.
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I suggested this years ago (11/01/01) when the Subscriber service was introduced.

Anand said it would be considered and I never heard anything after that.
 
the ads are getting friggin annoying

the see through ads at the bottom, that huge banner ads at the top

damn time to move on to a new forum
 
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