Zeli
Flesh Jelly
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May 29, 2008 19:12:45 GMT -5
Post by Zeli on May 29, 2008 19:12:45 GMT -5
We may get ads toward the end of this month.
The way proboard works is that you get 50,000 ad-free page-views per $7
Up until now, we've always finished a month with about 20,000 views left over.
This month, as of right now, we're at: Total Ad-free Pageviews Purchased: 50,000 Ad-free Pageviews Used: 49,235 Ad-Free Pageviews Left: 765
Now we could just apply another $7 towards the board for May and have it covered... but page-views don't roll over so we'd be paying a month of ad-free service for like 2 days. Ya, I'm not doing that.
We've gotten like, double popular in a month. If this continues, which I doubt it will, but if it does we can switch the service so that only registered members do not see ads and nonregistered guests will be stuck with them.
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Zeli
Flesh Jelly
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May 30, 2008 10:42:45 GMT -5
Post by Zeli on May 30, 2008 10:42:45 GMT -5
okay the ads are really bothering me
and why should our generous contributors pay for guests (which i think is mostly webcrawlers anyway) to not see ads?
As of now, I've switched it so that it's ad-free to registered forum members. It'll go into effect on June 1.
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Odie
Plague Spewer
WAR Former Councilor
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May 30, 2008 10:50:26 GMT -5
Post by Odie on May 30, 2008 10:50:26 GMT -5
With the gas prices the way they are i motion that we ration out web views. You are only allowed 2 pages a day! Or... we could just do what Zeli said and make it for forum members
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Zeli
Flesh Jelly
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May 30, 2008 10:57:45 GMT -5
Post by Zeli on May 30, 2008 10:57:45 GMT -5
Ya, I LOVE that people are being active on the forum so I really don't want to discourage it with ads (i hate ads - especially the gold farming ones) and up until this month, we've never even come close to the 50,000 views per month limit so it hasn't been an issue. If you are a guest and love to lurk and hate ads, simply register and you'll be able to lurk ad-free. Webcrawlers - They show up as guests but I don't think they care if they see ads so no need to pay for them. And a HUGE THANK YOU to Athene and Malsirian for the donation to the forum to keep it ad free! Unfortunately proboards, unlike ezboard, does not tell me who donated or how much, so it's hard to determine. so from now on, whenever I notice that we've received money, I'll probably just post a generic thank you to the mysterious generous contributors.
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Tye
Orc
Warrior
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May 30, 2008 12:25:49 GMT -5
Post by Tye on May 30, 2008 12:25:49 GMT -5
wow, 160 guests in the last 24 hours? Someone must have been bumping your thread at only-war. When you guys make it big, don't forget where you came from!
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Zeli
Flesh Jelly
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May 30, 2008 13:21:40 GMT -5
Post by Zeli on May 30, 2008 13:21:40 GMT -5
wow, 160 guests in the last 24 hours? Someone must have been bumping your thread at only-war. When you guys make it big, don't forget where you came from! I’d be astounded if even 5 of those 160 guests were real people. We won’t get too big. We cap the guild at 60 members and I think we only hit that once, in the early days of WoW – we got up to 64 members at one point and it was too much. That didn’t last long though. Usually we’re on the lookout for good members to add. We’re not a guild for everyone and we’re okay with that.
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May 30, 2008 14:00:56 GMT -5
Post by Thrakus on May 30, 2008 14:00:56 GMT -5
lol I better put some money in the bank considering how many views I abuse....errr....use a day ;D
yea so many bots.....so little pron
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Aberrant
Ragewalker
Core 03/2003 DAoC Founding Member Former Councilor
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May 30, 2008 20:41:00 GMT -5
Post by Aberrant on May 30, 2008 20:41:00 GMT -5
I know the ads generally suck, but god damn I want one of those samurai swords!
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Malsirian
Brain Mole
Wowzer Aim to Misbehave
No sir, I DON'T like it
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May 31, 2008 11:11:53 GMT -5
Post by Malsirian on May 31, 2008 11:11:53 GMT -5
Well, yer very welcome but we sure weren't looking for a public thank you - considering how much time and effort you put into the guild and board, I figured we could contribute a small bit to help keep things up and running. ;D
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Zeli
Flesh Jelly
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May 31, 2008 13:20:00 GMT -5
Post by Zeli on May 31, 2008 13:20:00 GMT -5
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