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Question: What should be the post cut off for ads showing? (Figures shown in brackets are the number of pages of members fitting that criteria.)
50 (20)
100 (22)
250 (24)
500 (25)
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Barry Scott

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« on: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 23:11:52 »

Please read the whole of this post and then please feel free to give your opinions. Smiley

Just to let everyone know, i will have advertising throughout the forum by the end of this week.

I've always been a touch reluctant to do anything to piss anyone off, while balancing this with the longterm goal of making the forum self-sufficient. This causes a slight problem because advertising pays bills, and nobody likes advertising.

Anyway, without rambling on too much, if you're logged in and have more than 50 posts (this seems a reasonable number no?), adverts will be non-existent. They'll only be displayed to guests, people not logged in and users with 50 posts or less. I haven't firmly decided on the 50 post cut off, but it's extremely unlikely to be higher, if anything it will be lower.

Opinions welcomed. Please!

Thanks Cheesy
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Bogus Dave
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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 23:16:25 »

cant complain. will this advertising be enough to fully fund the site?
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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 23:16:35 »

capitalist pigdog
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Barry Scott

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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 23:19:26 »

Dunno Dave, it's experimental, but i hope so. We're just going to have to see how everything pans out. Nothing is going to change for the regulars, because all ads will be hidden.
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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 23:20:25 »

capitalist pigdog

I was expecting that! Cheesy
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flammableBen

« Reply #5 on: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 23:24:23 »

I just logged in as future news monkey and didn't see any.

Oh wait. I've got adblock on. Is it that good?
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Barry Scott

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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 23:29:46 »

Not present yet. Before the week is out it will be. I'm Just getting some decent tracking uploaded and getting some geek to solve a small problem implementing the ads.
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flammableBen

« Reply #7 on: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 23:30:54 »

oops I missed that bit. Fair plays.
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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 00:01:55 »

Seems fair enough to me. But as an alternative have you not thought of perhaps instead of paying the hosting/bandwidth bills as they come in, bundling them up as one big bill, throw in a few TEFers mortgages, then package them up as a structured collateralised debt product and get the government to take the whole lot on instead? Then pay yourself a massive fuck off bonus and retire "in disgrace" to a life of whores and cocktails in the Bahamas.
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« Reply #9 on: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 07:08:08 »

Completely fair, you make the cutoff 5000 for all I care.

So how does revenue generation work for this. Is it simple referral schemes or is there some other way?
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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 07:12:24 »

I dunno, I'd quite like to see keyword advertising just to see what in merry hell that would throw up on here:

"Buy or sell STFC Bart at Ebay.co.uk"
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« Reply #11 on: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 08:14:39 »

Fifty posts you say? (Checks the little number on the left). Yeah carry on.
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Barry Scott

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« Reply #12 on: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 08:40:22 »

So how does revenue generation work for this. Is it simple referral schemes or is there some other way?

It'll all be Cost-Per-Action. They'll essentially be free offers and various other little benefits, that when signed up for, by a user, payment is made depending on the action taken. So it is a kind of referral scheme yes. Cheesy
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Don Rogers Shop

« Reply #13 on: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 09:29:57 »

How much will advertising be
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« Reply #14 on: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 11:49:00 »

I think you should maybe raise the post count a bit, make it 500 or so, 50 sounds very low.
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