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[Granville57]

I HAVE A QUESTION!

http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showpost.php?p=773516&postcount=2159

I have another question now, too!

Actually, it's surprisingly similar to my previous one which seems to have been thoroughly ignored.

Q:
http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showpost.php?p=779152&postcount=2195

 

[Havetts]

Even more adds after the threads list. I've always been curious about a tattoo removal about Marylin Monroe...

 

[Anonymous]

the power of advertising

 

[JRTinMA]

Finally interesting content

Having been skiing for the better part of a month I was pleasantly surprised to return to the interesting ads in the forum. Finally content worth clicking on! Really though, Yaz one of the 50 most over rated players in baseball??? That's just plain stupid, not surprising that its was in the LA thread. Group all the idiotic stuff together, the interwebs is brilliant.

 

[mewmewmew13]

just checking in. I still see total blank space. Happy to do my part for FP!

 

[bicing]

Next Generation CyclingNews Forum

Pink space = ad space

 

[bicing]

Next Generation Cycling News: part two

Pink space = ads space

 

[bicing]

Next Generation Cycling News, the end of the thread.

Pink space = adspace

 

[Polish]

This forum blows because of all the ads, go to Velorooms instead to avoid hearing about plastic surgery, dara torres' arthritis, high-milage cars, 28 really expensive things nobody can afford, millionaire john castle, intel, gartner, the megaupload effect, what your hands say about health, annoying driving habits, 15 dangerous cities for driving... should I go on? No?
EXACTLY!
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Spamming threads with ads for Velerooms is funny.
Are you paying CN for your ads? Hope so.
Right thing to do you know. Honest.

You do need to spice up your ad a bit though.
How about:
"Go to Velorooms - you can say "titties" there"

 

[The Hitch]

Spamming threads with ads for Velerooms is funny.

CN gets just as much exposure in velorooms.

 

[Polish]

CN gets just as much exposure in velorooms.

Spamming threads is allowed there?
Don't let the Marketing Guys from FP hear that

 

[Anonymous]

is anyone else getting colnago pop up ads on the homepage or is it just me

 

[pedaling squares]

Nope. Turned off the adblock and only had Colnago banners on both sides. Turned it back on again as part of my pathetic and apparently pointless effort to tell FP that they're treating their users and volunteers like crap.

 

[Anonymous]

ah, i have blank sides, just white space, no advert, but if you touch your mouse y accident the colnago site pops up

 

[doolols]

*sigh* *drums fingers*

 

[Martin318is]

*sigh* *drums fingers*

don´t wear your fingers out. there are no magic answers coming....

 

[Anonymous]

don´t wear your fingers out. there are no magic answers coming....

Nope. Now just a once interesting forum now clearly on the way down.

 

[lancaster]

this is still a disaster.

sort it out

i find it genuinely staggering that a misstep this big has been and not reversed.

my usage of the forum has shrunk incredibly in the last couple of weeks.

 

[doolols]

my usage of the forum has shrunk incredibly in the last couple of weeks.

You and many others, it seems:

http://boardreader.com/fp/CyclingNews_Forum_11718543/Professional_road_racing_11625029.html

Remember the "Unoccupy the forum" day (Jan 16th)? "Activity" (by whatever means that is measured) dropped to 229 that day in the Professional Road Racing forum.

The past three days' figures have been 245, 239, and 247. And that's without a special movement under way. These figures can be verified by the people that control the webserver, and by anyone who has access to the webserver's statistics.

How long before 'those in the know' realise what's happening, and take steps to stop it before the activity figures drop even further? And I wonder how many of us who are still here have Adblock running, so we don't even see the stupid ads any more?

 

[Amsterhammer]

You and many others, it seems:

http://boardreader.com/fp/CyclingNews_Forum_11718543/Professional_road_racing_11625029.html

Tha Cafe stats are also not to be sneezed at by those in authority. The lion's share of Cafe posts are from me in BoB. Once that hits 2m, my contibution will be vastly reduced.

http://boardreader.com/fp/CyclingNews_Forum_11718543/Cafe_General_11626309.html

 

[Polish]

Nope. Now just a once interesting forum now clearly on the way down.

It is a stretch to say the ads have made the forum less interesting. If anything, things became a bit MORE interesting for a bit. Although less visits required to the BoB thread wink wink.

And the forum on the way down because of the ads? Doubt that.

If anything, the fact that it is the off season and even more important - HWMNBN not getting indicted - made the forum go downhill for many waa.

Lot of anger too. To be expected. Comes after denial.

But as the new season begins and more and more people accept the HWMNBN situation, the forum may become more "interesting" to those that have lost their interest. Hang in there guys. Tough it out. GRRRR.

 

[ElChingon]

It is a stretch to say the ads have made the forum less interesting. If anything, things became a bit MORE interesting for a bit. Although less visits required to the BoB thread wink wink.

And the forum on the way down because of the ads? Doubt that.

If anything, the fact that it is the off season and even more important - HWMNBN not getting indicted - made the forum go downhill for many waa.

Lot of anger too. To be expected. Comes after denial.

But as the new season begins and more and more people accept the HWMNBN situation, the forum may become more "interesting" to those that have lost their interest. Hang in there guys. Tough it out. GRRRR.

Yea, I agree.

But the part everyone is missing out on is if any forum really makes it to big hit (click hits) status, they get ads added to get some money out of it. Sure everyone is keen on having a website for their favorite hobby but the moment it really makes it it also becomes a chore to run and no one can keep such a thing alive on one persons donations. They can't resist the google hit counter or word counter fee's in their favor. Why spend any money when the site can go free for the originator? Especially when the majority of the members never fork over a dime or penny to use it.

Then there's some that think their free post is so quality they are providing the substance to keep it alive and its so important that it should pay for their membership, nope!

 

[Maxiton]

You and many others, it seems:

http://boardreader.com/fp/CyclingNews_Forum_11718543/Professional_road_racing_11625029.html

Remember the "Unoccupy the forum" day (Jan 16th)? "Activity" (by whatever means that is measured) dropped to 229 that day in the Professional Road Racing forum.

The past three days' figures have been 245, 239, and 247. And that's without a special movement under way. These figures can be verified by the people that control the webserver, and by anyone who has access to the webserver's statistics.

How long before 'those in the know' realise what's happening, and take steps to stop it before the activity figures drop even further? And I wonder how many of us who are still here have Adblock running, so we don't even see the stupid ads any more?

An ad-free cycling forum is a happy cycling forum.

 

[bicing]

Yea, I agree.

But the part everyone is missing out on is if any forum really makes it to big hit (click hits) status, they get ads added to get some money out of it. Sure everyone is keen on having a website for their favorite hobby but the moment it really makes it it also becomes a chore to run and no one can keep such a thing alive on one persons donations. They can't resist the google hit counter or word counter fee's in their favor. Why spend any money when the site can go free for the originator? Especially when the majority of the members never fork over a dime or penny to use it.

Then there's some that think their free post is so quality they are providing the substance to keep it alive and its so important that it should pay for their membership, nope!

Meanwhile, passionate supporters of other forums give a donation to keep it running because they understand that ads suck.

 

[thirteen]

Meanwhile, passionate supporters of other forums give a donation to keep it running because they understand that ads suck.

and they are given the choice to do so, rather than the ads simply appearing without warning.