Is?

[TWR]

Is this site becoming an advertising site? everywhere you look there are ads coming up, ED, are you lot losing the plot? Nice knowing you!!!!!!

[AB Editor]

"and I already can't see the ads... what with being all scabby..."

We might put a scab-blockade in :)

I guess you'd use scab-blockade-blocker then I suppose...

[whiskeryron]

Thanks for the link HeadBanger I've just opted out of ads.

Ron.

[JoolsTwo]

Only thing I would say that bothers me about the ads, is I wish they didn't flash. It doesn't make me any more likely click on any of them, I just find them very annoying. I only click if I'm interested in what is being advertised.

[Prudie]

I remember suggesting £5 pa couple of years ago but no-one liked the idea (it was stop the temporary guests!). I wouldn't pay £20 for any of that Ed but I would pay it to keep being a member.

[AB Editor]

Send us links to annoying ads and we'll do our best to keep 'em off.

[Barmaid]

lmao Ed, have you been down the wine bar at lunch time? you are now going to be inundated with "annoying" ads. *Chortlesplutters*

[JoolsTwo]

http://www.netflights...t&utm_content=flights

This one is really annoying Ed as it sits either side, so it's flashing all the time you're trying to read answers to posts.

[JoolsTwo]

http://www.easyjet.co...tm_campaign=FEBDR2012

This one is worse.

[moonraker558]

I don't get any ads at work or at home. I feel cheated. lol

[cupid04]

There are definitely more ads since the Ed had his massage the other night!
There are extra ads on the best answer thingy.

[craft1948]

There isn't an extra ad on the best answer thingy. There's always been an ad there, it's just a different shape now.

[hc4361]

My objection to private messaging is that as far as I am aware I don't know anybody on AB.
Anything an ABer has to say to me can be said on the site - I don't want potentially abusive or offensive private messages, nor over familiar ones.

I'm not anti-social, I just don't think that is the purpose of AB.

[Zeuhl]

hc

You probably mean unsociable - not anti-social
Anti-social means you vandalise bus stops or something.

Would you be against private messaging of annoying, pedantic comments that find fault in your grammar or spelling? :-)

[TWR]

To you reply Ed, I do understand that you have to make the site pay they also thought that on the site I referred to earlier in my post, when this started to happen members started to go, what started as a bloody good site ended with less & less members, I have not been or looked on that site since joining T.A B. but have kept in contact with a few people that was on, they have left, I have mentioned this site ( Crawl crawl brownie points) to them, all I am saying & I said the same to the Eds of that site, "Dont forget the people that made the site so popular, your members" this comment is not meant as an insult to the running of the site but a comment from a member that looks forward to coming on here without getting these dam ads all over the place.

[hc4361]

TWR, how would you like to keep the hamsters that makethe AB site run fed?

[ABerrant]

Zeuhl - I suspect hc is against the private messaging of mistaken definitions ;-)

Antisocial:
1. Opposed to sociality, averse to society or companionship.
2. Opposed to the principles on which society is constituted. Also, spec. in Sociol., pertaining to a class of persons or actions devoid of or antagonistic to normal social instincts or practices.

Synonym - unsociable.

[DTCwordfan]

Lose the ads and we would lose the amusement of the Dating Site ad that has been showing these last few days.

PMs can be set up by using an intermediary e-mail and then taken from there......

I would consider a small fee for a gold but really I too mentally block out the Ads - this is not good news for any of them tracking us for take-up and awareness, is it?

[boxtops]

TBH unless someone points out the ads, i really don't notice them, I tune them out in my mind... the one next to "Best Answer" is just too big though, I like to be able to see if a question has any answers, you have to scroll down now the big ad is in that place.