The Ad That Must Not Be Named...

[ABSpareEditor]

As we are all well aware we have had an incredibly irritating issue with a particularly clever ad that seemed determined to interrupt specific people on our lovely site.

We have been working hard over the weekend to get to the root of this. And our techie gnomes have discovered it likes to be named, so any threads naming this ad (beginning with a 'g', and ending with an 's') were triggering the ad to show.

For this reason we have deleted all threads, both old and new, that mention this terrible ad by name. It's not that we're deleting your threads because we don't care - quite the opposite!

The advice of 'please clear your cache' still stands true, if you have seen the ad, please clear your cache (comment below if you need any help on your specific browser, but a quick google should help you). And let's never talk of this terrible ad again! Doing so will cause it to rear it's ugly head!

[AB Editor]

Hello,
Our providers have put a fix in place so I have turned the final ads back on. If you get the G-word again, please let me know here.

[Kidas]

Thank you EDs and Spare Eds.

I have had three windows open for about three hours now with no sign of the offending adverts.

The problem is that the site is now very slow indeed, due to the adverts loading. I have to wait for a minute before the text I type appears in the box here.

I have a solution for that... But you don't like it.

[AB Editor]

Hi Kidas, thank you for the feedback.

Is anyone else finding the site slow?

[ummmm]

Not slow for me.

[kvalidir]

Yes me, I thought it was our internet but it seems to be just this site :/