f13.net

(Please move/delete this if I missed the thread-in-progress)

It's a good idea. I know you admins need money to run this little place, as it's not a charity, but....

Is there a way to filter it or anything? Some very....odd, things are coming up.

- The front page was full of adverts for RMT. Two were for buying SWG credits.

- I'm currently looking at an add for planned parenting. Not sure what to think of that.

Again, I know you need the money, but there's some things that you probably don't need popping up in the ad box.

There is a way to filter out objectionable ads but unfortunately it is the case that a lot of gaming ads are for IGE-type sales and other questionable stuff (capitalism at its finest). Google is still indexing the site so it's probably best for things to settle down before schild and co. decide who if anybody should be filtered out. Also since Google automagically figures out what keywords are "appropriate" for each page you will see odd things popping up like that planned parenting ad or this "survellience" software package I saw earlier (i.e. "spy on people through software!"). Also AdSense ads typically pay out on a per click basis, though some ads are bought by straight impressions. Click or don't click on the ads -- it's your choice -- just know that clicking on them, even if you don't care about what they are linked to, is what generates the money.

... where are they? I don't see them, either on the front page or browsing the forums. Am I blind or somehow missing them?

There is an advertiser blacklist. It looks like he's started using it as RMT ads on the homepage appear gone at the moment. adsblacklist.com has a blacklist of low paying advertisers you can drop in as well.

It's picking up some interesting stuff. EVE targeted crap in the EVE forum. It makes the site too wide on 1024x768 though.

I don't see them ether, probably because all of them are from cesspools of filth like add.doubleclick.net that are 127ed on all of my machines.

I just got one advertising hearing aids, on a site about youthful video games.  For fun we should start saving some of the more absurd ones and trying to figure out why google thinks the ads are relevant.  I mean they have thousands of engineers with PhDs working on this stuff.

(http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/9703/f13adsense2qk.jpg)

On a serious note should we click on these from time to time or do you get paid regardless of site referrals?

Oh man, this is great.  Now I'm going to run around just to see what it thinks is relevant to some of our more fucked up threads.  Also, I can use it to grief:

porn slut dildo sex ass shit furry cock spooge

You're amazing.

Most AdSense ads pay out on a per click basis. Some pay out per (thousand) impression but those aren't as common.

No you can't, give it up.

 :cry:

If it makes you feel better, Google does not allow advertisements on NSFW pages as per their user agreement and they do not allow companies that would link to NSFW pages in their advertisers portfolio. Basically, all you did was ramble off some curse words. But hey, win some, lose some.

Then I'll do the next best thing.  :evil:

UO Star Wars Ultima Online SWG
UO Star Wars Ultima Online SWG
UO Star Wars Ultima Online SWG
UO Star Wars Ultima Online SWG

Don't let anyone say you aren't a philathropist.

Britney Spears, pokemon, poker, gambling. Britney Spears, pokemon, poker, gambling. Britney Spears, pokemon, poker, gambling.

Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh Yu-Gi-Oh !!!

I think we might have the most comprehensive and easy to use gold buying tool ever.  It's sorted by game and server for God's sake!

I must have this blocked in my hosts file as I don't see them with Mozilla or IE.  I'm missing all the fun.  :cry:

I clicked them about five times or so. Does it help? Cuz it's literally the least I can do.

If it's a per click ad it does. Just don't spam click them.

Buy your SWG Gold!

125 million credits on Naritus for $39.95

Character Leveling by our veteran staff at a reasonable cost.

Heh, no need to pay Google when I have a captive audience here  8-)

All you guys have done is made the ads on this thread relavant to AdSense.  I hope you're happy, Britney, Tom, K-Fed and Katie all are crying.

Edit:  In fact, this is like a nifty new game.  What bizarre ads can show up in threads?!  For example, in the "Hostel" thread, there's an ad for Gay and Lesbian TV!.  Entertaining!

I've seen a lot fewer "BUY BLAH BLAH BLAH GOLD" ads than I thought I would. Not that it matters. I've no problem with gold farmers paying me. They probably pay adsense more than they pay their own workers. I'd call it sad if it weren't such sweet sweet revenge.

Unblocked.  Let the fun commence.

I cannot believe I just purposefully unblocked an add site.

I'm going to start posting like Kevin Nealon's old Mr. Subliminal character:

I can't (gambling) believe that you (poker) unlocked an advertising (IGE) website either.

Heh. I'd rather you didn't. But the alternative seems like a lot of UO stuff. I don't know what to say.

Sorry, dude... all inoccuous ads.  In fact, last page load had four "donate to charity" ones.  Google is smarter than griefers.  Can't wait for mmog.google.com to enter beta.

I'll quit living in the past as soon as the future invents an MMO with actual fun in it.  And hey, my latest UO thread is actually rational and contains something resembling news.  You yourself even held your nose and made an on-topic post in it.   :-D


Star Wars.  Ultima Online.  Viagra.  Prescription drugs.  Penis enlargement.  Gambling.  Pokemon cards.  Furcadia.

Ok, the nasty box around them is gone and it's been made smaller for people browsing on computers that were built prior to 1867.

It's showing fewer ads that way, though (2 x 1 instead of the 3 x 1).

A few people complained that the old box hung over the edge of the forums in their browser. Which it might have, at 1024x768. I'm not particularly happy with the idea of cutting the ad number in half though and we don't seem to get the Dell ads near as often now. I may make the f13.net logo smaller to accomodate. Not sure about a solution yet.

Yes I was one of those that mentioned that. It's not a big deal though since it doesn't stretch out the width of the posts. In other words you only have to horizontally scroll if you want to see the cut off portion of the far right ad.

I think without the border around the ads, it wouldn't be near as noticeable. With how I browse (and I know a lot of folks here have widescreen LCDs), the 4 pronged 768 wide ad didn't even fill up the top area. There was still extra space between the logo and the ads.

Edit: Actually, I'm definately switching back to the other ads, this one doesn't show the website. That's super important for finding out which ads don't pay shit. For example, someone clicked on an ad that paid out 1 penny. Sucks.

Awesome, right now they want me to donate my boat, and the other one wants me to donate my car. WTF, do these things thing I am. Oh, now its trying to get me a job.

It offered me a $350K a year job selling shit on Ebay, sounds good to me.

I hope the Chinese Farmer people I get are somewhat reliable and can be supported like those "save the international children" where it costs you $18.00 a month to support them.

Not to waste good money on supporting childern make them gold farm to get it. Set draconian quotas and if they don't meet them cut thier support by few dollars.

Oooh, an add from Google Japan.  I wonder if the filters block the bad stuff from over there.

Yeah I can see the Japanese one as well. I think we can safely blame Schild for that one...

Old font gone, couldn't remake original logo, trying to make things work. Pardon our dust. ON THE OTHER HAND, if some artist types here want to come up with an f13.net logo, that'd kick ass.

It's the chart thread all over again!!!  Oh the joys of a photobucket account, MS Paint, and way too much free time at the wrong hours of the night...

Obligatory UO reference:

(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e121/GrimDysart/f13fart.jpg)

Yes, that's supposed to be Schild:

(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e121/GrimDysart/hate.jpg)

Just because this image came up when I googled F13:

(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e121/GrimDysart/f13.jpg)

Right now I see ads for donating computers to charity, Cancer Research UK, and a tax efficient charitable donation service.

Somehow that's more frightning than the gold farm ads.

Hmmm. I'll turn off PSA stuff monday night, see what happens.

I've been gone since Thursday.  What are those thingys up there ↑?  What is this thread about?

Instead of a job Schild decided to open the forums to Ads by Google.

Joking on the job thing.

I'd like to think I could run F13 instead of having a job with a boss and shit, but alas, that's not quite doable.

Yet.

No, no... you're right about the job thingy.  Schild shouldn't work.  He is a fragile artist.

H'es just not the "working type."

I'm sure at least a few of us can relate.

The ads in some of the eve threads are pretty awesome.

"Spec Op's Training"

"Pepper Spray & More"

Heh.

I like the ones that pop up in the politics forum. Also, there's some crazy shit in some of the stranger Useless News threads.

Edit: Also, new logo thing up top. I went more...simple than WUA.

I click on all your bloody adverts.  I grief myself for you.  I don't like the new logo as much as the previous one and I didn't like the previous one as much as the first one. 

Dammit.

Lol, you are griefing him, if they suspend his account for frick claud.

The first rule of Google Adsense is do not talk about Google Adsense.

I wish I was joking.

Needs pink flowers and ponies.

Or bling.

(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e121/GrimDysart/plantationantigua.jpg)

Colonial Waffle Farmer Online... I like it.

Ok, that's funny.

Reminds me of brickmaking parties in ATITD1 way back in the day.

Wait. Brickmaking.


Parties?

I assume they were BYOB?

More like 5 guys get together with a carefully laid-out 10x5 grid of brick racks, 2 guys run the brick racks (one places, one picks-up) and the other 3 guys run around bringing them mud and straw.

Booze was a necessity around Brick Mark 20,000. As well as those gel ice packs for your wrists afterwards.

See, the ground in the picture looks vaguely like the grid of brick racks and.. ah, nevermind.

That sounds fun!

Sure, if having a steamroller dancing on your nuts in stilettos is fun.

How did the steamroller get in stilletos? I would think a giraffe would be wor--------- ohhhhhhhhhhhh, I get it.

That's a mighty blocky font you got there.

I'm also not quite sure why I need mini something or others from Japan, but whatever.

"Neocron 2 - No More Elves" wins the headline contest.

Lol, I remember needing 20+ people to dig holes to get a certain type of stone.  It consited of us standing aound the hole and clicking every 30 seconds. EXCITING!

According to the adverts up there ↑ I can buy WoW gold cheap and become a manager from home for $75 per hour!
                                                     
          Yay!                                       
         /
(http://smiley.onegreatguy.net/yay2.gif)

I am mesmerised...

This is a keeper, from the Don't do it Cartoon Network thread:

(http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/5034/monser4cm.jpg)

I finally have the reliable, illicit monkey serum source I have been looking for.

I love this thread so much. Nice job, WUA.

The PSA came back.

Ah, yes, the holes in ATITD filled themselves up faster than one person could dig.  That was depressing, the way the environment was trying to destroy your soul.

OK that literally made my monkey day.

/e runs off to spam "monkey serum" in every thread on F13

My dear old auntie used to go to Switzerland every year for a series of virgin monkey piss injections.  It kept her young right up until the day she died of old age.

Edit:  Really.

There is no "edit" in your "edit".

edit: Really!

I really did edit it.  I had even turned the page.  I just wanted to emphasise it.

I am bored.

Can you forgive me ?

Yes.  It is in my nature to forgive German people.  If you were swedish, you wouldn't stand a chance, however.  DAMN THOSE SWEDES AND THEIR INFERNAL MEATBALLS!

(http://www.sr.se/diverse/appdata/isidor/images/news_images/2054/48130_190_193.jpg)
Meatballs got nothing over good German sauerkraut  :evil:

(http://www.kitchengardeners.org/sauerkraut.jpg)

Filtered out the bulk of the gold farming ads.

Rang, Rang!

it took over 50 refreshes to dig up an IGE.com ad though.

Brock Pierce must've had his ATM card stolen or something.

You better be careful or he'll kick your ass with is hockey stick!

Nah, he's too busy raping children.

Google has uncovered our deepest darkest secrets and is now showing an ad for Furcadia on the forum index page.

Yea, I just pointed that out to some people. Heh. Depressing.

Yeah, I saw that, too, but didn't say anything as I didn't want to conjure up memories of you know who.  Again.

Jesus...

Just saw a google ad for a client.  I don't need work reminders when I'm browsing f13 to escape work.

Dammit.

The "Click here to learn how to earn $25,000 a month one?"

Edit:  Adam Ant sponsors a UO shard?

Shit.  Now I have that bloody Goody Two Shoes song stuck in my head.  It'll be there for days.  Well, unless I catch a glimpse of our handyman, Fernando. 

Oh shit.   :cry:

Better Adam Ant than ABBA.

I thought I'd gotten rid of all the Goldvertisements. You squash 40, 50 new ones pop up. I'll nuke them after E3.

From what I've heard on other sites your filter space just isn't large enough to get rid of all the gold selling sites.

It's probably the same two or three base sites and a crap load of fronts.  If I was doing something like that it's what I would do, you can link them all to each other to get high google rank, they don't cost nothing other than time, if someone has a bad experience with one you can probably sucker him into using a different front, and you get around people adblocking you.

The shadier type of pr0n sites use this for the same reasons.

I don't think you can get away from those gold selling adverts.  I just went into the WoW forum and all but one was for either gold or PL'ing.   :x

It's like the Whack-a-Mole game -- you smack one down and another pops up in its place.

More like whack-a-mole with the hydra...

The Useless News page just gave me an ad for "Eight Days of Gay Sports."

I'm frightened.

I am guessing Leapfrog is prominently featured.

The Gay Games happening this summer in Chicago and Montreal are being pushed really hard this year.  I've seen blurbs about them everywhere.  That's probably why it is showing up in the ads.

Unintentional Comedy, 4TW.

I'm really good, er bad... whatever, at that.  At least I keep people amused.

I appreciate it.

(http://www.f13.net/images/necropost.gif)

Current ads nearly aren't worth it.

Thinking of experimenting with CPM stuff instead of CPC. Will never be any popups or popunders or ads with sound. Possibly graphics - but even Google throws graphics in every now and then. I know I see those about once per day unavoidably. Anyway, CPM would pay multitudes more than CPC. If my guesstimations are correct with CPM based ads, it's very likely that I could start buying games each week/month/whatever for writers to actually just Play & Review. This is the ideal scenario simply because things aren't getting cheaper and I'd far prefer to have ads delivered than have to pimp myself to this godawful industry. No one seemed to be bothered by the Pocket Kingdom ads back in the day. From the crazy amount of research I've done, this would not be as garish as those (and by garish I mean brightly colored - not much could get more brightly colored than the PK ads). Some of the ad networks i'm looking at deliver stuff like Eve ads next to other new game releases as well as tech related (computers, operating systems, etc). So it'd be a little more targeted as well. Anyway, discuss.

I can deal with pretty much any type of advertising necessary to keep this site up. Compared to the multitude of filth on the internet it is a small price to pay.

Yeah, go for it.  Wouldn't bother me any.

POUND ONE!

It's your site, after all.

As long as we can avoid noise and popups, it's cool with me.

I'm sure you will keep it at a level below "Punch the monkey to win" and "Shoot Bush to win a PS3", so go for it.

Don't buy anything for me to review.  I know how to get it if you want it.  We've got lumps of it 'round the back.

Llava, is Deadpool a playable character in any 2D fighting games?  Or is that a sprite edit?

The latter, I believe.

I just stumbled across it and thought it was neat.

(Though he is playable in X-Men Legends 2)

I don't mind what you put in a banner, however, correct me if I'm worng, but don't you only get paid per click on these things? If so, I think you'll be lucky to find any system that pays adequately, I suspect most of the audience here is more likely to pickle their own head than click on a banner ad.

CPC = Cost per Click
CPM = Cost per Thousand <whatever>. On the Web that's "impressions" or banner serves. Yes the "M" stands for a thousand -- it's an advertising thing.

Except the vets here and others who care might blithely click to try to help f13 earn revenue (even if it doesn't really do anything).

The M is for mille, French for thousand.

CPM is the industry standard, how large online media companies sell their ad space. If you are selling ads based on CPM, you want a site where users are constantly opening pages. Message boards are ideal. You then set about giving the users more and more things to do, so they open even more pages. To maximise income, you also need to put as many ads as possible on each page (from tiny text lines to banners and skyscrapers), while not pissing off the user.

My job is to do this with news. Ooh look, terror alert in London! Here's the main story, the five related stories, the form to send us your photos and videos from London, the gallery of your photos and videos from Heathrow, the Al Qaeda backgrounder, the timeline, the sidebox with "today's most popular stories", the unrelated Core2Duo story promoted for an extra click from all the nerds, a news search tool, a poll on fear of flying, a link to the Paris Hilton music video outtake, and of course the message boards where you can discuss the definition of terrorist, Paris Hilton and Core2Duo vs Athlon64. Sign up for our email alerts so you'll hear the news earlier next time (and visit us again) and oh, here's some cross-promotion for our other sites.

CPM is why Rupert Murdoch paid US$650 million for IGN. And why a story about Mischa Barton will get more space on a news homepage than the fighting in Lebanon.

That's why so many sites do useless fucking polls.  I get it now.

We want to know what you think.

Well, for your information, I really don't find Paris Hilton particularly attractive at all, though I wouldn't call her hideous.

So I will select option C.

You might try changing the placement of the Adsense ad. For example maybe moving it to the bottom of the page instead. I never look at the top 300 pixels of these pages because there isn't ever anything up there.

I'd have to agree. Tower ads are the only ones I even notice.. and even then only if they have movement or flash. Eww.

I don't know if it's possible or if people would get pissed but some message boards put the ads in the  first reply to the op. (http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=81691) You'd probably get more clicks like that...

For that to work, it would have to be the first post of each page...

And even then it wouldn't work too great, what with the "New" button here.

They actually have it on the first post of each page, I haven't looked around there that much.

I agree, but I still think that kind of placement would get the most clicks.

I like the new ads.

(http://cdn5.tribalfusion.com/media/553686.gif)

(http://cdn5.tribalfusion.com/media/553846.gif)

(http://cdn5.tribalfusion.com/media/553826.jpeg)

(http://cdn5.tribalfusion.com/media/553816.gif)

That's cause they are all PSAs right now :-D

The energy hog one scares me.

A man with a hog face and manboobs in the shower is just not the sort of thing one really wants to see.

Is this like training your dog to drag the computer out in case of fire?

F13 has ads?  I haven't seen one yet.

Feed Fido well, so he will make a nice stew?

I can't see them at work, but they show up at home. I must have Firefox configured differently at home. Not that I care; 99% of my F13 time is at work.

Ad blockers are for people who hate america and freedom.

Put up an Amazon donation link and I will send you more money than you will ever earn from me clicking ads. $10 oughta do it  :-D

These are CPM.

As in, we only need you to look at them. And considering how much you look. I think allowing ads for us is fairly reasonable.

Also, you'll love America and freedom more.

So what your saying is, if we dont refresh the forum pages over and over, the terrorists win?

I don't want anyone here to refresh over and over. Everyone going about their day as normal would be just fine.

Thankfully I just normally sit here all day hitting refresh.

It is actually pretty easy to do with Firefox/Adblock- I was amazed. The ads are creeping me out though- very bright against the nice dark background. I fear change.

Clearly we need an imagemagick module that automatically adjusts the hue and chroma of the images so they blend in nicely with the rest of the site.

I need one of those bird thingies Homer had for the Y key.  I'll set it over my mouse with my mouse over the Refresh button, and then I'll go to work.

Reminds me of DAoC crafting! BOOYAH!

Just use Opera -- it has a built in "Reload every..." command.

Once again, please don't auto refresh. It actually doesn't help. Unique page views is what matters. I'd really like to see how this performs under normal everday use.

But I have to keep hitting refresh to be entertained by the ads :) This one's for Ironwood:

(http://cdn5.tribalfusion.com/media/553836.gif)

No ad blockers here.  It's not my fault you haven't put the ad code into all the skins, now is it?  I actually have no problems viewing ads at all, and have found some pretty interesting sites following random ad links before.

Go for success with the power of sisterhood.

Argh! Pop up ad begone from my machine!

One of the Circuit City ads is trying to do a pop-over flash job, but instead is popping inbetween the forum architecture.  (Under the titles, news box, etc.) Interesting effect, I'll see if I can get a shot and post it.

Oh good. It wasn't just me. Are these ads supposed to be able to do that? Because that will get me to turn on ad blocking instantly.

Yeah I don't even get the CC ads anymore.. so either an Admin had the same problem or it was a fluke of the early morning.  I recall the one I had problems with had a laptop.   The roll-over ad was obnoxious, too, but at least it was avoidable.

Oh snap, i just got that bullshit!  I tried to take a screenshot but i was too late.  BALLS!

Got that huge circuit city one too.  I'm at work right now so couldn't get a snap... and my home computer doesn't display ads.

Oh I see it too, I don't think it really matters if it expands under the top stuff, I mean it's their code, it's their problem.

The CC one that appears in the middle of the screen and follow you around though, don't know what I think about that.

I'm gonna try and turn that shit off tonight, I was damn sure I already had.

I can honestly say I do not mind the ads. I hardly notice them at all.


So how does the money part work? How often am I "contributing" to the f13 coffers?

Anyone else seeing only PSAs right now?

I know exactly what I think about that.

Edited by Schild: I hate that picture. Funny though.

I see regular ads.

Yup, getting regular ads now.  None of them are chasing me around the screen either.

It might've just needed an adjustment period. Or they tried to sneak in some evil. Those crazy ones only appear once in 24 hours I think when they're activated (which they aren't)....but they uhm, hmmmm. Yea, you know what I'm getting at.

I see PSAs. Or at least, the two times I glanced up there (while reading the complaints and then while posting this message) I got PSAs.

Eeeeek. Hillary and Condaleezza on one banner.

Im getting huge popup adds in the middle of my screan. Big ass Circuit City adds, when I have to click close, and it minimizes the add up to its proper spot. Not cool.

I had to go into IE to see what you're talking about. And it only goes big when I mouse over it.

Yeah I got the huge follow-you one early this morning.  It was the one doing the funky weave-behind-the-frames thing.   I didn't see it but the one time, but thought I should post about it.  I get the roll-over ones a lot at work, but like I said those are at least avoidable.

Here at home I haven't seen anything except PSA ads.  IE at work Firefox at home.

No there are some that start big and then shrink down.

I'm kinda like that first thing in the morning.

 :rimshot:

Nice.

Yeah the Circuit City banner has to go.

Osama Bin Laden was hiding in my bushes today, trying to draw a bead on my dog with his sniper rifle.  But thanks to Schild and ready.gov, I knew my pet would be a terror target!  Thanks f13!

Ugh, there is another one thats poping up in the middle of the screen now. MOMMY MAKE THE PAIN STOP!

What company is it now? Speaking of, it took you more time to post that complaint than it probably took for "the pain" to go away.

The trauma was quick but the psychological pain lasts a while...

Or they're all a bunch of drama queens. :P

(http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7391/f13cy2.jpg)

Anyways thats what the circuit city one looks like.  Haven't seen any others that were screwy. 

Thats the main culprit.

(http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/9170/banneradch6.jpg)

This one pops up randomly also.

are all themes getting ads? Mine doesn't have any :( I feel left out :(

Oh, we'll be fixing that. Right now only about 1/5th of pages are getting ads. I have no clue how it works though. This stuff is compricated.

So are annoying animated ads running around the screen something we're just going to have to live with?

I'm not sure. It seems they're a special variant of an ad that doesn't fall under the normal conditions for which I've blocked (I've blocked about 1/3rd of the ad types). One that I haven't blocked is the roll over get bigger, because it's inproportionately...uhhh, yea. So, basically, these start unrolled and roll up. I'm not sure why they do that, but since they all seem to be back to school related, I'd imagine they'd be gone in a week or two. The Circuit City ones seem to be the culprit and back to school sales end soon (hence that one week or two comment). Since we're evaluating a new ad system, I'd rather not fuck with more things until I see how it stablizes. But if it continues this way, I may have to get some shit together to block single ads.

Trust me, I'm NOT trying to torture anyone.

Where do I click to get the paid subscription page that disables adverts?

I haven't seen the giant annoying ones because I have the Flashblock (http://flashblock.mozdev.org/) plugin for Firefox installed.

However, I have been having horrendous performance problems; the a.tribalfusion.com server seems to be very slow to respond - 45 seconds or more to navigate between pages isn't uncommon.

I'm considering k-lining *.tribalfusion.com in my hosts file if it's not fixed soon.

I like the blinding white banners that ask me if Condi Rice can solve the Middle East problem, or the ones asking me if George Bush fucked up worse with Katrina or the Middle East.

Don't worry, you won't be left out for much longer.

Sounds like a user error there, no slowdown whatsoever over here!

That flashblock extension is probaly the culprit, Adblock is much better, but make sure to whitelist this site!  :-D

Sometimes I get a pause in page loads due to references to advertising sites - its only to be expected. I don't use ad blocking for most sites provided that the adverts are not intrusive, but I do use cookie blocking for all ad networks and other data mining sources. I have no idea if that affects revenues, but if it does, tough shit. :)

It's more likely to be a problem involving the office network, since I have flashblock at home and don't get those pauses - and they still occur here even when serving up non-flash ads.

I ended up putting the kibosh on tribalfusion's DNS resolution. Fixed the problem right quick. You may commence with calling me a pinko freedom-hating hippie.

Weak.

If you are doing to do it that way just add the IP to your hosts file.

As mentioned a post or two ago, that's what I was planning on doing and actually did:

127.0.0.1 a.tribalfusion.com

Very simple, very effective.

No I meant put in the real IP address (or one of them since there are multiple ones) unless you can't route to any of them.

That would involve researching whether the issue is resolving the tribalfusion domain or actually connecting to one or more of its IPs. Neither would be surprising.

I can see fight club  :wink:.

Now it's asking me which member of N'Sync is gay, and there isn't a button for "All of the above, plus all the twats who listen to their music." I'm so conflicted.

I don't think this advertiser gets the concept of 'targeting'. Or perhaps even 'demographics'.

You do not think you would be a suitable foster parent for a troubled teen? 

http://a.tribalfusion.com/l.click?clickID=LRGORHCLIDVOSMHMHXKOXSMNTRWBCRMGIWYHSPFBICJKODGPGGJAPWOLNUJQLNQGDNOLIEAPO&clickURL=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eadoptuskids%2eorg (http://a.tribalfusion.com/l.click?clickID=LRGORHCLIDVOSMHMHXKOXSMNTRWBCRMGIWYHSPFBICJKODGPGGJAPWOLNUJQLNQGDNOLIEAPO&clickURL=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eadoptuskids%2eorg)

The ads were pretty benign on my home PC...but some of them, especially the damn Circuit City one, was downright obscene on my school PCs.

Worst. Pop-Under. Ever.

I love the Circuit City one that pops over the post reply box, forcing me to click on it when I'm just trying to write a reply.

That thing folds up for me in less than 3 seconds. I mean, really.

By the way, the people Uwe Boll is fighting have already been announced.


Linky (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=356343).

Probably for the best since he's a trained boxer and would have thrashed you. I expect the guy from Fredrick, MD to stab him with a prison shank.

Bah, didn't care about getting my ass kicked. Just getting one shot on him would have been all I cared about.

I'm excited. I can't wait to see Lowtax get decimated. I'll be surprised if he can still walk afterwards. And the guy from AICN will probably become a bedpan for that fat bastard Harry Knowles.

Jesus, I can't even scroll away from that goddam circuit city ad. It follows me all the way down the page.

Sorry Schild, but ad blocking is going on until I hear that ads like this are gone.

This guy is gonna fold like a deck chair. There is just no chance he A) doesn't punch with his thumbs inside his fists, and B) isn't a virgin.

I don't think that's the point. The point is that it's an ad that makes the site annoying to use. One step removed from those ads that try to get you to install unsigned ActiveX controls for 'Free Date/Time Atomic Clock' spyware-trojans.

I miss the old Google ads. Even the worthless gold sellers were at least gaming related. These banner ads that try to get me to download spyware to get "free smilies" are just retarded.

Do these morons pay a lot more than Google?

A lot more. And you don't have to click on them.

I know, I know. I still have the stupid things turned on don't I? But they really are a jarring burst of retarded colour at the top of every page of this fairly black and white website. Ugly, ugly, ugly.

You people are way too sensitive.  I don't even notice them anymore.

And you don't think CoH is a wretched grindfest either. :)

Must.. resist.. Spongebob screensaver...

Oh phew thank the lord theese aren't google ads, I was wonder what kind of sick and depraved stuff goes on here in general that made me see "The power of sisterhood" ads instead of goldfarmers.

(http://view.atdmt.com/TRU/view/trblftru0010002674tru/direct;at.trutru00004424/01/)

why don't we just say to hell with it and go all out with porn banners?

Most of those dating sites use ad banners that really really push the line into NSFW territory.

I mostly get ad council stuff. Never seen anything like that softcore banner. Or is that a banner for paramedics? She looks injured.

Yea, I need to get that goddamn dating one turned off. I saw it yesterday at work and simply didn't have time to jump into TF. I'll work with that over this weekend. Weeding through hundreds of ads is no fun.

(http://view.atdmt.com/TRU/view/trblftru0010002674tru/direct;at.trutru00004147/01/)

 Internet dating sites are damn lucky nobody's sued for them to adhere to truth in advertising.

Did they save Vegas yet?

No, but the DHS wants to save Lassie.

(http://cdn5.tribalfusion.com/media/553826.jpeg)

Go deficit spending go!

Dogs are probably better prepared than most people for emergencies.

Speaking of animals, I've decided any animal kept in a cage is not a pet, but a prisoner. I've gotta get Amnesty International on that.

Ok, I am still not seeing the ads.  Where are they?  Why don't I see them?

I use Firefox, and I don't allow tribalfusion to run its scripts.  Is that why?

Probably. There is a setting in Firefox to specifically allow ads on a particular site. I relaxed my vigilant anti-ad browsing for Schild's pocketbook the good of F13.

And we luv u for it.

Ok I am now seeing the ads.  Should I click on them 100 times or anything?

WTF?  I clicked on save-vegas.com, entered my birthdate as Jan 1 1900 and was told I'm not old enough to view the site?

Dumbshit web programmers.  So chinzy with the variable types, and so lazy to actually do it right.

No need.

Alternatively, you could take the view that they just busted your lying ass.

They did not have the 1800's on the drop down list, so I had to choose 01JAN00.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Mercado_del_Toro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Mercado_del_Toro)

Ok, I just saw an ad with Smokey the Bear warning me about forest fires. I am a video game nerd- I don't go outside! That message is just lost here  :-D

You've got a new one that puts a "We need your help" box 3/4 the way down the screen. It scared me.

It was meant for Voodoolily.

Can they tell if I have an ad-blocker on my browser?

Yes. Blocked ads don't count as a pageview.

Furiously, can you screenshot that ad for me, thanks.

(http://f13.net/media/images/f13_ad_ea.jpg)

:evil:

Again, they're paying for it.

Edit: I thought that ad blended in really nicely too. So much so I didn't notice it was an EA ad til you posted that.

That smile train ad is FREAKING MY SHIT OUT.

Thank god. The first time it came up I was like WTF? I had to follow the ad to find out what it was (cleft pallete help).

I'd rather get freaked out by something like than by something stupid.

For a second, I thought the site had been hacked.  I was waiting for goatse to pop up.

If you have a problem with IGE, you might want to know you have a flash add from them on the front page:

(http://iria.chem.uh.edu/f13/ige-small.jpg)

I blocked a shit load of IGE addresses. When they change they slip through. I'll take a look this weekend.

IGE ads are like crabs. Even the slightest contact can leave infected and scratching for days.

Bump.

I've twice now seen an add for MS Office 2007 ("the Ribbon") that has a flash animation that is about 600 pixels tall.  It uses that height not to push down the content, but to play flash animations that float over it.  It also produces a large dropdown on mouseover, although that's not nearly as annoying.