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I want to try an experiment on the site for March 2012

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tranglos:
As App said, you can pretty well control what shows up.  The places that I know that use it never show animated gifs.
-wraith808 (February 17, 2012, 09:22 AM)
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Do they also do text-only ads? (Does Mouser want text-only ads? I'm just emoting here!) It's ironic that they would bill themselves as "wonderful" and a way to make ads "awesome", while showcasing it with the worst, most universally hated type of ad (well, except the pop-up, that's even worse).

Plus, on top of the front page, they get all crybaby-like about me using adblock. My response is, if your site looks "unfinished" when people use adblock, redesign your site so that it doesn't.

So maybe they really are wonderful, my judgment is admittedly superficial. All I'm saying is that when I look at their front page, the "wonderful" part is not on display.

(Remember OpenCandy? Trust us, we're cool, we're great, we're new, innovative and revolutionary and really nice... Nope, sorry, you're just another adware business, good-bye. I'm getting the same impression here. Maybe what they mean is they are "wonderful" to advertisers, but that too often means "hair-puling awful for everyone else".)

Disclaimer: none of the above is meant to influence Mouser's decision on whether to run with the experiment and how to run it. I'll be keeping dc whitelisted in adblock for the experiment, regardless of the implementation. Above I am just reflecting on how the "wonderful" thing comes across to me as a target.

anandcoral:
Mouser, if you ask for permission, expect to get 50-50 answer. You will not be able to keep everyone happy.

There must be very solid reason why in spite of being against ads, you want the ads (though for a short time). I can only guess, but yes, it is difficult to run longer on empty stomach. Donation alone can not sustain where expenses are high.

Instead of putting my self on any side, let me put my feeling of web pages with ads.

I like GMail text only contextual ads on the right side. It even helped me with local ads a few times.
I hate text or image ads in the middle which camouflage itself as a non-ads.
I hate animated ads (some just pissed me off from very decent image sites).

Since we discuss and the text matter of each page of forum and DC site gets change, the "contextual text ads" will look better and may even add some related information to the page.

Obviously, as noted by others, you will not get the correct result in one month time. But if you continue to have something, which does not hamper our usage and visual interaction with our site then, I think, few will complain.

Regards,

Anand

KynloStephen66515:
You say you don't want to go against peoples views on donating to the site...so why not show ads for only those who are either guests, or none-supporting members.

This means, those who chose to contribute via donations, do not have to see these adverts, but those who cannot afford/do not want to for other reasons, can contribute in other forums towards the monetary upkeep of DonationCoder and its developments.

Personally, I have no qualms with seeing advertisements on DonationCoder, as I have mentioned to you in private, on several occasions.

The other advantage of only showing advertisements and such to none-donating members, is that, it somewhat gives people an incentive to donate even $1 (Many sites do "Pay to get rid of advertisements", and I have never seen it harm a community in any way that cannot be rectified through some simple adjustments) - You can also use this to your benefit; by being able to directly show advertisements from companies who come DIRECTLY to you; in order to place a banner or other type of advertisement here on DonationCoder...doing it this way, means you get 100% control of what is being shown on the DC website, without having potluck results from an Advertising Platform.

There are several players in the advertising industry that offer much bigger payments, and allow for a much more targeted output.

With Google Ads, I have found, that some seemingly innocuous term, can result in things being shown, which are totally against what you want (I found several banners, which where showing content of a sexual nature)...And, although Google resolved the issue very very quickly, the damage was still done (The image had already been seen by the users).  I'm not saying that this is something that WILL happen to everybody who uses Google, and it was quite awhile ago, so they may have tightened up the system...but obviously, if your not in total control, you have no guarantees!

kunkel321:
I'll agree with everything Anand posted.  Especially how annoying the adds are that camouflage themselves as site content.
Also I'll add that it annoys me when sites have "paid premium" memberships that are add free--just bugs the heck out of me..

tomos:
Also I'll add that it annoys me when sites have "paid premium" memberships that are add free--just bugs the heck out of me..
-kunkel321 (February 17, 2012, 11:33 AM)
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I always thought that was fair enough...

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