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Hi all,
in the next couple of days, you may notice some changes in the appearance of
LUGNET news web pages.
These changes are basically a testing scenario and will have the following
impact:
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.
As soon as you sign on with a valid LUGNET user id, you will see the
advertisements disappear again.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Parties interested in some sort of individual advertising are invited to contact
me with their ideas as well - we can certainly figure something out.
Thanks,
Jerry
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| In lugnet.announce, Gereon Stein wrote: <snip> (...) Anyting that keeps the wheels on the wagon that is LUGNET, I'm in favour of! Keep up the great work! Dave K -who was once an english major--cancha tell? (17 years ago, 13-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| This is a good solution, several web sites does exactly that. I've only one request: could you please modify the Post Message page so I don't have to go through the alert and type my name and email every time? Best regards, Gabriele (17 years ago, 13-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Since I'm getting mostly positive feedback so far... I have now also included ads code in the LUGNET Guide pages. This code is also dependant on the Signed-In status, i.e. signed in users will not see the ads. Please keep me updated with issues or (...) (17 years ago, 13-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) This is an excellent idea, and it's entirely in line with what countless other web-forums do already. If it helps to keep LUGNET afloat, I say great! When does LUGNET get "credit" for an ad? Does the user have to purchase something, or just (...) (17 years ago, 14-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) 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 (...) (17 years ago, 18-Dec-07, to lugnet.admin.general)
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