WTF Advertising? IS THIS GOOD FOR THE FORUM

[fly]

So I got bored this morning and read up on Skimlinks. It's forum advertising. Gay. Much like AdSense, it will likely earn me .12 over the next month and I'll turn it off. We'll see.

I have no idea what the ads look like yet, I think they just create a link when certain words are typed. Dunno. However, if you hate me or they annoy the fuck out of you, they can be turned off in your control panel.

Settings > General Settings > Skimlinks

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

This is how genmay started to die

 

[fly]

This is how genmay started to die

Believe me, I hate advertising. If this shit is annoying, I have no problems turning it off. This site never has and never will be about generating massive profits so that I can start up a company to buy other forums.

 

[CletusJones]

This is how genmay started to die

 

[fly]

THIS IS WHY GENMAY LEFT

 

[CletusJones]

Believe me, I hate advertising. If this shit is annoying, I have no problems turning it off. This site never has and never will be about generating massive profits so that I can start up a company to buy other forums.

Don't lie, we all know your plans of internet goat forum ownership

 

[Duke]

Fuck it, may as well make Code Mayhem a mod then....

 

[Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski]

Just another way for fly to cash in on our misery.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

i havent seen one yet, but I adblock the shit out of everything

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Just another way for fly to cash in on our misery.

cashfortears.com

 

[fly]

If anyone sees one, can they link to the post in this thread?

 

[CletusJones]

None showing in tapatalk

 

[Domon]

This is how genmay started to die

motherfucking viglink.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Do you get paid per displayed link, or per clicked links?

 

[fly]

Do you get paid per displayed link, or per clicked links?

I didn't read THAT far. No idea.

 

[Duke]

this is when fly finds out he's actually paying for the advertising.

 

[fly]

Apparently when you post words like Best Buy, it's supposed to auto link that stuff. Doesn't appear to be working.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

Are you gonna delete all my Marklar?

 

[Domon]

Apparently when you post words like Best Buy, it's supposed to auto link that stuff. Doesn't appear to be working.

Good, because when genmay did it with viglink it was annoying as fuck. It highlighted about every 8th word in this annoying blue underlined bold text, and if you got anywhere near it with your mouse, it locked up the forum and spent 35 seconds loading some shitty popup.

 

[Duke]

ugh, I've seen that used on some blog sites.