Huge ads on frontpage?

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:11 am

http://a.as-us.falkag.net/dat/bgf/20040 ... 36x280.gif

I'm seeing this kind of huge ugly blocky ad that kinda breaks up the front page. WHAT'S UP YO?

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:16 am

I mentioned it in management this morning after Dark Underlord said he was still working on ad placement and shit. Mentioned it again in #fallout later on. The ad really fucks up the page and I hope it's taken care of soon.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 6:37 am

Hah, there's so much white space in that ad, it could be squashed down to normal banner proportions and still keep all the info.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:19 am

I just adblocked it since I'm all ruff & tuff & stuff.

Post by **DarkUnderlord** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:47 am

Yar, the current placement of the ads is... temporary... until I get the new stuff out by the end of this year.

Unless someone else has some inspiring location to put those ads...

fallout ranger · Post by **fallout ranger** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:51 am

put them in hell...

or spam NMA with it...

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:19 am

the bottom?

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:59 pm

Create a special page with like 50 ads, we could each go on the page once every day.

Post by **DarkUnderlord** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:29 am

Well, that's possible. I can setup one of those re-direct things that shows a useless page with an ad, then has a small, obscured link "click here for content / article / whatever" hidden on it somewhere.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:24 am

As much as I hate those, it's not a bad idea. Go for it DU.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:59 am

No. Fuck that. Just learn to deal with the banners.

LlamaGod · Post by **LlamaGod** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:25 am

why not make a tiny box that shows that ad on a seperate page, but only the corner of it?

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:06 pm

For whatever it is worth, I hereby add my voice to the 'nay to 'click here to continue, but enjoy the gratuitous adverts in the meantime'' crowd. Banners would be preferable, I think.

Gimp Mask · Post by **Gimp Mask** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:10 pm

God bless Firefox

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:39 pm

Hell yes, I've 90% of the images I encounter blocked anyway. Makes the experience far less irritating, and usually much faster. Win, win.

Kreegle · Post by **Kreegle** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:43 am

Holy shit! You have to scroll down a whole page to see news! Hahaha

axelgreese · Post by **axelgreese** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:51 am

Who comes here for the news? I need my prostate enchancements.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:51 am

The ad placement definately needs to be looked at.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:00 pm

Blargh wrote:I hereby add my voice to the 'nay to 'click here to continue, but enjoy the gratuitous adverts in the meantime'' crowd

I'm sorry... did you just nest single quotation marks in an internet forum?

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:28 pm

Franz Schubert wrote:I'm sorry... did you just nest single quotation marks in an internet forum?

No doubt that offends your grammatical sensibilities, Franz ?