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If annoying ads will get Toady money, then YES!

47 (36.4%)

No matter what, ads suck - NO!

16 (12.4%)

Only if there are no popups.

66 (51.2%)

Total Members Voted: 129

[Puck]

Oh my, I know how useful ads on the forums could be. But still, for me it would turn bay12games.com into yet another (online)place I don't go because it keeps annoying the shit out of me.

Adblock, noscript, i know, i know.

But it still is a matter of taste, somehow. Not everything should be tied to a number on a bank account.

[socially_inept_butterfly]

I would totally buy a shirt/hat with "Liberal Crime Squad" on it, preferably cheap, military styled ones for that ruddy Guevera look.

I'd buy a hat that says that.

[Hectonkhyres]

If a little thing like a google add or something from project wonderful or HFS coming out of your screen is enough to drive you away from these sacred forums, then you are no true dwarf.

Rejoice, heretic, as you burn in the cleansing flames of absolution!

[Puck]

Wouldn't a true dwarf be stubborn enough to do exactly that? I think they would.
quote: "Fo' shures I wouldnt listen to a single thing a shortbeard says"

Anyway... a nice, quiet, non-flashy, non-animated link to a potential t-shirt store.... thats different.
like... another subforum that just says "tshirt store" or "toady survival fund" or whatever, I could live with that.

I dont need to make sense here. That's just the way I am. And the question was how we would feel about it. And I say "shove it up your rear end" and feel very very dwarfish while doing so 

[Hectonkhyres]

Wouldn't a true dwarf be stubborn enough to do exactly that? I think they would.
quote: "Fo' shures I wouldnt listen to a single thing a shortbeard says"

A dwarf would listen to anything and everything the dirty humies say, bid them a polite farewell, and proceed to escort them to the nearest drowning chamber. Thirty minutes later he comes back to loot the corpses and collect the materials for a +Human Leather Backpack+.

[Erom]

Dwarf: We flushed another lot of forum goers today.
DwarfTwo: Find any loot?
Dwarf: Not much. A couple of -keyboards- and one sort of nice +post+, I did get this cool *Bay12Games tshirt* though.

[Creamcorn]

If anything shirts should be like this.

This is a <+<-Shirt->+>

It is made from (color) cotton cloth. On the shirt is a joke
only know to DF players in (screen printing stuff used)

[Philosophical Gamer]

I've had 1 click on a google ad on my site pay out 60 cents, and the general clickthrough is about 2% on average, so if Toady gets 1500 visitors a day, that's 45,000 per month.. the average pay seems to be like 12 cents, so 2% of 45,000 is 900 clicks a month, or about $108 per month ad revenues.

$102 per month might not be worth jeopardizing the value of the site for people, google ads are pretty much considered tacky anymore.  There are newer ad providers with better ads, but many of these are pretty distracting or wouldn't fit the theme of the forums (video ads, or ads with links to items for sale).

I think it's classy of Toady to not have ads on his site.. while it'd be a decent boost to income, and really it isn't very difficult to get going and maintain, it can totally change the feel of a site, and pretty much always not for the better.

[Puck]

exactly.

[Warlord255]

Hmm. Well, it seems that the general consensus is that while many of us would be alright with it if it were to help, the benefit is negligible.

I believe now's a good time to close the thread.

[Hectonkhyres]

Hmm. Well, it seems that the general consensus is that while many of us would be alright with it if it were to help, the benefit is negligible.

I believe now's a good time to close the thread.

I don't think there is a consensus that the benefit would be negligible... but we have indeed said all we can here. The rest is up to Toady.

Also, would we close the thread by drowning the forum in magma? That seems the traditional, dwarfy manner of doing things.

[Mephansteras]

Nah, Toady just locks the thread and leaves us to starve.

[Tahin]

What about ads on the main page? I'd imagine that they'd get a few more hits than if they were on the forum, and be less obtrusive, too.

Anyhow, I really don't care. I love my ABP.