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

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 :D

cant complain. will this advertising be enough to fully fund the site?

capitalist pigdog

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.

I was expecting that! :D

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

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

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.

oops I missed that bit. Fair plays.

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.

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?

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"

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

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. :D

How much will advertising be

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

But then people will post just for the sake of getting their numbers up*.

*Like me

Ive been doing that for the last 3 years

I'm not sure what you mean? How much will it cost me? I'll get it all free, then earn a few $$ here and there from relevant submissions post click.


I just don't wanna fuck people off jan. At the same time, the higher the post count, the more views the ads get everyday.

Maybe i'll have a think about it all, and put it to some sort of sexy forum group vote thing.

But how much would it cost me to Advertise on your forum

I'd have to start the advertising first, see what the revenue is like, then work it out. It'd also be tough to price until i get some accurate stats through and have account management running for any individual advertisers. Also, all ads will randomly rotate, so one ad could get 5 impressions a day and another could get 5000, although unlikely,this is possible.

Let me get it all running and i'll stick something in this thread. :)

From a selfish point of view, I'd say anyone with less posts than me.

23000

Barry would you like us to log out and click on the adverts every so often or doesnt that make any difference?

Oh and 50s fine

8000.

Cheers for the offer yeovil, but it'll not do anything. Logging out and just browsing wouldn't be a bad shout, because they just need eyeballs in all honesty. :)

hmm

EDIT. 2500 should do it.