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Re: Change in LUGNET news appearance
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:29:51 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, Gereon Stein wrote:
> Hi all,
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> in the next couple of days, you may notice some changes in the appearance of
> LUGNET news web pages.
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> These changes are basically a testing scenario and will have the following
> impact:
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> As long as you are visiting LUGNET news web pages (hierarchy below
> http://news.lugnet.com/) without being signed on with a valid LUGNET member id,
> you will find some small advertisements inserted into each individual page.
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> As soon as you sign on with a valid LUGNET user id, you will see the
> advertisements disappear again.
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> The idea behind this is: Registered LUGNET members have donated a certain amount
> of money in order to support LUGNET. The majority of visitors, however, are
> unregistered users. In order to continue improving the services LUGNET offers,
> René and I are evaluating the possibilities to insert commercial advertisements
> which will display only to unregistered "guest" users.
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> If this actually proves to work, we will keep it that way. Regular visitors of
> LUGNET will be able to easily rid themselves of the ads by becoming registered
> members - for all others we expect the ads won't hurt much.
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> Please note that for now we are only testing this functionality. It may be that
> affiliate programs and positioning of ads will change over the next few days if
> not weeks. We will update you once we have decided to either keep ads in some
> final configuration or chosen to discontinue the ads altogether.
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> Your feedback is very much appreciated, so please contact me personally or
> followup to this message. I have personally taken technical responsibility for
> the ads setup, so I'll be your first point of contact.
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> Parties interested in some sort of individual advertising are invited to contact
> me with their ideas as well - we can certainly figure something out.
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> Thanks,
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> Jerry
I hate to start in on this thread because I know it will become political, but I
have to question doing this FOR ONE SIMPLE REASON. I was browsing (not logged
in because after six attempts over the last few years to get my account reset so
I can log in I have given up on ever getting my account to work again) through
the set list to look up a particular model. When I got to the page with the
model info, I got a popup ad. That did not bother me. The content of the ad DID
BOTHER ME. It was for a TV show or website called ADULT SWIM. Sorry, but we do
not need to be sending kids to our site (we often advertise the LUGNET site at
shows, conventions, etc) and then having them exposed to this type of
advertising. If you plan on using Google, or any other ad referral company,
please make sure that they can GUARANTEE only family friendly advertising. If
they cannot, I'd strongly suggest not advertising with them.
As for the concept, I have no problem with Lugnet doing what it must to stay
afloat, as long as it is in the best interest of the spirit of the community and
addresses a real need.
Thanks
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| (...) Geoff, you are right, this is way beyond our intention. First of all, I chose Google AdSense Ads for the simple reason that they do not usually send popup ads to pages. If anyone observes this behavior frequently, I will need to flag this with (...) (17 years ago, 18-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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