ziggie opened this issue on Feb 20, 2005 ยท 19 posts
ziggie posted Sun, 20 February 2005 at 9:10 PM
What's with the commercial banner ads...? If Crucial Technologies is allowed to advertise its memory products... does that mean we can all advertise our cars... houses... business products, etc....?
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Starkdog posted Sun, 20 February 2005 at 9:18 PM
Yeah, I just saw a banner add for Blockbuster Video. I thought it was strange at first, but I've come across a few others lately. -The Starkdog
Tashar59 posted Sun, 20 February 2005 at 10:26 PM
Too funny, I was thinking of starting a thread about the same thing. I've seen a few, the one I saw just now was a screen saver add. Same addy. BTW whats with the big picture. It's a real pain having to scroll to read a thread.
xantor posted Sun, 20 February 2005 at 11:09 PM
That annoys me, too having pictures that are too big in the forum.
Starkdog posted Sun, 20 February 2005 at 11:22 PM
Ziggie, What browser are you using? I can't tell from the picture. I use Opera as my main browser, and it is great because it blocks the little www.ad.doubleclick.com ad screens. IE just pi$$es me off. I can't even view PhilC's tutorial cd, because IE blocks whatever, and I have to click some crazy box to show blocked content. Then I get MS's popup box about viewing "dangerous content". The only drawback to Opera, is that Renderosity is slower than molasses in Antarctica. It can take almost 2 minutes to load a thread. Talk about aggervation. -The Starkdog
ziggie posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 12:23 AM
Starkdog: I am using IE. The pop ups don't bother me.. it's the fact that Rendo appear to be allowing comercial advertising that is not connected to 3D graphics, etc. Anyway... I am gonna delete the original post now... cos pissing people off pisses me off. Especially people whose only comments in a thread are the fact that the size of my pic pisses them off...!
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ziggie posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 12:33 AM
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mamba-negra posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 12:51 AM
Use firefox, get adblock (lets you kill adds from specific sites) You'll never have to see anything from those folks ever again. eric
ziggie posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 1:14 AM
Nobody seems to be getting the point...! I don't MIND the normal rendo ads... I often see something new from merchants that way. But... I can't understand why we are suddenly getting 'outside' ads from Crucial.. Ballbuster Video, et al. Next thing is... Pizza Hut... Hertz Rentacar and McDonalds will be advertising here.
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KarenJ posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 1:34 AM
Renderosity has been selling outside commercial adverts for some time now, but these are carefully rotated so as to allow instore advertising to make up a big majority of the banners. (I am not sure on the exact figures, you could ask the store staff if you're interested.) Karen
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ziggie posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 1:49 AM
Karen: thanx... my original question answered. It just seemed strange, because I visit Rendo umpteen times a day/night, and that's the first time I had seen an outside ad. I didn't realise that they were sanctioned by Rendo. Thanx again.
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Tashar59 posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 1:52 AM
I thought that was a NO,NO here. Seems the rules keep changing. I don't think it's right. Next thing it will be Viagra, and why not, you see it advertised everywhere else, will be the answer.
ziggie posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 2:49 AM
They would have to be pretty hard on... err... hard up to advertise Viagra. And I thik that would be against the toss... sorry... TOS.
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Hawke posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 5:06 AM
LOL @ ziggie
Everseer posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 7:03 AM
I think the official figure is 70% banners for merchants and the rest bein' made up of in house Rosity and outside advertisin'. Though with all averages its sods law to see the non poser related ones page after page after..... ;) Ever
Poppi posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 7:46 AM
lol...it's all about the art, right?
xantor posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 10:01 AM
If they do advertise viagra, I hope it doesn`t have an animation with it...
odeathoflife posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 11:16 AM
going up...... lol-sorry
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djthomas posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 11:24 AM
...but if the pop-up lasts for more than four hours you should seek immediate assistance. That's what the moderators are here for, right?