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Old 03-02-2014, 12:02 PM   #31
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How is this place supposed to stay up and running with out the ad revenue support?


People should just stop being lazy and cheap and buy the donation account that removes the ads.

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 02:55 PM   #32
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hosting ain't expensive. there are hosts out there that provide unlimited bandwidth and sql databases for like 10 bucks a month.

i asked how much he'd want for it and that i had enough for a serious offer and he said 50 grand because for some reason he believes that netphoria.org is valuable internet real estate. he may very well have been fucking with me, but i counter offered and he said 50k was firm.

glad the ads are gone. hpn, afaik never had more than a banner and their board has always been way more active than here and they don't hassle boarders for donations.

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 03:36 PM   #33
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I've probably made half a dozen fairly public proposals to match Netphoria's entirely yearly revenue with a single check if they take down every single ad for one year's time, but nobody ever responds to my offer...

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 03:52 PM   #34
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10 members and 138 guests currently browsing. meaning ~150 "people" have visited netphoria in the past 15 minutes.

some ad companies like AdSense don't even care if each impression is on a unique visitor. one ad company says they pay out 18 cents for every hundred impressions, which i imagine ads up very quickly when you have people googling for pictures of lindsay lohans boobs or whatever other pop culture shit we're talking about in the archives.

look at the rolling books recently thread which has >1000 times as many views as replies. pakula's probably making a little more than chump change off the ad revenue, which is bullshit because he's basically making money off content, the creation of which he had nothing to do with.

what i'm trying to say is we're unpaid laborers in a content farm.

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 03:55 PM   #35
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we should just all go over to hipinion and try to get badhat to grant us refugee status and activate all our accounts on a probationary basis

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 04:11 PM   #36
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also somewhat offended that a person who hasn't posted in 3+ years came and mentioned the intrusive ads and they were gone.

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 04:43 PM   #37
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also somewhat offended that a person who hasn't posted in 3+ years came and mentioned the intrusive ads and they were gone.
...do you want them back?

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 04:43 PM   #38
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yuk yuk

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 04:54 PM   #39
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Ammy tell them to make me mod

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 04:58 PM   #40
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also somewhat offended that a person who hasn't posted in 3+ years came and mentioned the intrusive ads and they were gone.
It was because iOS devices were being redirected.

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 04:59 PM   #41
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also somewhat offended that a person who hasn't posted in 3+ years came and mentioned the intrusive ads and they were gone.
it didn't have anything to do with ammy posting you guys jesus christ

the bots went nuts last week, sppunk reached out to andrew, and andrew took the ads away.

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 05:01 PM   #42
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this is like slunken thinking i somehow blocked him from becoming a mod

what do you all actually think goes on in the employees' lounge

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 05:07 PM   #43
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i wont say a word i swear

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 05:12 PM   #44
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I had to actually check on my phone if this wasn't some mod trolling going on. Thanks guys! Also how does the website make any money at all when every poster and regular lurker uses adblock? I assume people x out when the ads go nuts? Or was it not that crazy on a computer?

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 05:14 PM   #45
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yeah i've wondered that too. do users have to actually see the ads for the webmaster to get paid or whatever?

i don't know how this shit works

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 05:14 PM   #46
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More like ship of fools.

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a vessel populated by human inhabitants who are deranged, frivolous, or oblivious passengers aboard a ship without a pilot, and seemingly ignorant of their own direction.
Wait I think there's a pilot again nevermind

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 05:17 PM   #47
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I had to actually check on my phone if this wasn't some mod trolling going on. Thanks guys! Also how does the website make any money at all when every poster and regular lurker uses adblock? I assume people x out when the ads go nuts? Or was it not that crazy on a computer?
Andrew made the site into an SEO nightmare, so the ad revenue likely isn't coming from the regulars but rather people who stumble through google search results, a good portion of which don't use adblock.

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 08:13 PM   #48
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Andrew Pakula has been dead for 4 years, no one has shut off this hosting and his parents have been paying it because THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND ANY OF THIS SHIT.

We should have let the ads take over. Who would even want to read anything on this pile of shit forum from their phones anyway.

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 11:01 PM   #49
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what do you all actually think goes on in the employees' lounge
Lots of sex.

 
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Old 03-02-2014, 11:48 PM   #50
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yeah i've wondered that too. do users have to actually see the ads for the webmaster to get paid or whatever?
i don't think so. though alot of forums (usually much bigger ones) don't like users admitting you're using adblock. they don't care if you do it, they just don't like advertisers knowing you're doing it

 
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Old 03-03-2014, 12:04 AM   #51
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Have you guys seen the banners or popups on certain cites that specifically ask or require you to disable ABP? Someone has definitely noticed an impact. Which is why I'm surprised when someone shows me a youtube vid and there's a fucking commercial and I'm like yo what the fuck are you doing? this is 2014. and they're like yeah ads are cool and websites need to make money

 
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Old 03-03-2014, 06:20 AM   #52
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ammy is back?

 
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Old 03-03-2014, 06:21 AM   #53
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HEY INTERNET

this forum requires that you wait 30 seconds between WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT

 
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Old 03-03-2014, 06:22 AM   #54
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i have a PET scan tomorrow, fuck you forum

 
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Old 03-03-2014, 06:22 AM   #55
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i guess they changed that in an attempt to slow down the spambot attacks.

and yes, ammy's back: http://forums.netphoria.org/showthread.php?t=180626

 
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Old 03-03-2014, 06:22 AM   #56
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please try again in 1 seconds F U shitlord who cares about AD BLORK PROAL u don't even know plurals

 
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Old 03-03-2014, 06:26 AM   #57
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lol!

http://i59.tinypic.com/2jdgb3r.jpg

 
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Old 03-03-2014, 06:40 AM   #58
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eat fresh

 
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Old 03-03-2014, 10:03 AM   #59
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ammy is back?
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HEY INTERNET

this forum requires that you wait 30 seconds between WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT
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i have a PET scan tomorrow, fuck you forum
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please try again in 1 seconds F U shitlord who cares about AD BLORK PROAL u don't even know plurals
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eat fresh
Ugh. You used to be good at this. What happened?

 
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Old 03-03-2014, 10:28 AM   #60
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it's not the same without the ads

 
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