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Title: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: System on March 13, 2003, 01:31:38 PM
Amiga.org would like to state our appreciation for the continuing support of Elbox by way of their placement of advertisements on this site.

Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: SilvrDrgn on March 13, 2003, 01:41:12 PM
Agreed ... much appreciated!!   :-)
Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: Nick on March 13, 2003, 02:05:20 PM
@SilvrDrgn

Agreed
Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: Vincent on March 13, 2003, 02:35:31 PM
Quote
Agreed ... much appreciated!!  :-)


That says it all :-D
Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: amigamad on March 13, 2003, 02:45:06 PM
Good to see elbox back one of the best amiga expansions  people. That genesi advert was so ugly im glad there is something to read when on main page :-D
Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: ikir on March 13, 2003, 03:11:58 PM
Thx Elbox :-)
Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: catohagen on March 13, 2003, 04:30:24 PM
if you don't like the genesi ad, install a small
proxy(theres a few on aminet) and ban
the http://amiga.org/images/banners/genesi1.gif
file


:-D :lol:
Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: System on March 13, 2003, 04:45:29 PM
@catohagen,

While true, I would like you to understand the consequences of such a recommendation.  Amiga.org exists ONLY by the contributions we receive, along with the advertising revenue which pays for the servers we need to run this site.

By promoting the use of proxies to bypass our advertisements, you make it very difficult for us to succeed.  If you don't like Genesi or Elbox, or ForeMatt, or whoever, simply ignore the banner.  It's that simple, but don't go about telling people to disable the display of the advertisements.
Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: alx on March 13, 2003, 05:39:04 PM
@catohagen

Why?

I'm not a huge Genesi fan, but I'm perfectly capable of ignoring an advert.  It's not somehow doing any harm just by sitting in the corner there - "removing" it yourself won't suddenly cause Genesi any harm :-)

Anyway, nice to see a few more ads round here.
Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: catohagen on March 13, 2003, 06:25:14 PM
@wayne

>By promoting the use of proxies to bypass our advertisements

Do you get paid per user loading a.org, or
per click on the banner ? or a paid monthly fee ?

Im sorry....but I dont see the harm of just
dont load that image :-)

What about people who turn imageloading off ?

I usally surf with images off...

@Alx

nice avatar :-D
Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: createcoms on March 13, 2003, 07:03:08 PM
yes alx - that avatar is  :-D  :-D  :-D
Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: N7VQM on March 13, 2003, 07:16:45 PM
Ah man!  Seeing Elbox ads just make me wish I had won the lottery!  I sorely want a Mediator and one of thier snazzy tower cases for my A3k.


Q.  What has six balls and screws you twice a week?
A.  Powerball!
Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: Paul_Gadd on March 13, 2003, 07:20:34 PM
Nothing wrong with ad blocking software (if set up correctly the net becomes once again a nice place   :-) )

Set it up to also remove the following "modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=" and bye bye Image-o-matic and donations and this sites main page looks a lot better.
Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: AmiGR on March 13, 2003, 09:56:55 PM
I think he gets 1$ for each thousant image *loads*.
Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2003, 12:33:32 AM
@Paul_Gadd

Why do you recommend getting rid of the donations bit. I know each to their own and all that, but i think thats just an insult, sorry.
Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: catohagen on March 14, 2003, 07:42:31 AM
Gotta love Ibrowse :-) -> Url prefs, add

http://amiga.org/#? - Image loading off


and thats even easyer that my suggested proxy
approach :)
Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: Paul_Gadd on March 14, 2003, 01:05:02 PM
@Nick

I do not recommend getting rid off the donations bit, only to remove it using ad blocking software (ie the users machine and not the website itself).
Title: Re: Welcome back to Elbox
Post by: Targhan on March 15, 2003, 06:11:13 PM
Lets see, you go around promoting ways to reduce the effectiveness of banner advertising on amiga.org; therefore, you want to reduce the value of our advertisement system.  

Let's take this a step further, our advertising clients lose intrest because you don't like a particular advertiser.  Advertisers pull away from Amiga.org.  Amiga.org doesn't have enough money to pay for servers, mail-services, etc.  Amiga.org becomes a nice blank white page that says, "This domain for sale," with some free-server pop-up advert to boot.

Don't say, "It's just one advertiser."  Because advertisers all meet with each other at shows, conferences, and other kinds of meetings.  Advertiser-A tells Advertiser-B and C that they were scammed by Amiga.org users, so the other advertisers pull away.  That's how business works.  Now would you please stop trying to kill this website?!!?