Flare Sci-Fi Forums: Apparently some of you didn't get the message...

This is topic Apparently some of you didn't get the message... in forum Incoming Hail at Flare Sci-Fi Forums.

To visit this topic, use this URL:
https://flare.solareclipse.net/ultimatebb.php/topic/1/84.html

Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

We are in debt. Seriously. About $700, give or take. That is the reason I put up the banners.

Costs are about to rise again from $60 to $80 a month. That is the reason I put up the banners.

I hate being in debt, especially to my PARENTS. That is why I put up the banners.

You are to visit our sponsors. That is why I put up the banners.

If you don't visit, I don't get the money I need to pay the bills. I don't get the money, this place DIES. That is why I put up the banners.

I ask that everyone who has read this message write a note to yourself... Once a day, visit a sponsor and look around. That's it. Once a day. That is why I put up the banners.

------------------
Charles Capps
Cheif Administrator, the solareclipse network
"I do whatever the voices in my head tell me to do."

Posted by Trinculo on :

I don't visit the banners because I don't like the topics. Can you put topics that include news, science, or airlines? Then I would visit the banners on a daily basis. (I don't have much money and I don't like Mr. Forbes or his publication. When I read a business publication, I read Business Week.)

Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

I have no control over what banners DO appear. I've excluded certain banners because I feel they are not appropriate. If I exclude too many, then non-profit ones get put in... While I actually like them, I don't get paid, and neither does the ad place.

------------------
Charles Capps
Cheif Administrator, the solareclipse network
"I do whatever the voices in my head tell me to do."

[This message has been edited by Charles Capps (edited July 01, 1999).]

Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Besides, if you don't click through, you'll miss great stuff like this:

Want To Feel Good? Don't Smell A Child, Sniff Your Granny - July 01, 1999

UK (New Scientist) - The smell from an old lady's armpits can raise your spirits, a scientist in Pennsylvania claims. Her work also suggests that in contrast, the scent of a young child does nothing to improve your mood.

From Discovery Helath. I love the Dsicovery Channel!!

Seriously though, I don't need a car loan, but I can spare a couple minutes to click through and find out why I don't need one.

One banner in the morning, and one in the evening after I get done looking around here!!

------------------
For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

Posted by bryce (Member # 42) on :

Do we just have to open new windows, or do we have to click through them, too?

------------------
"You can stand me up at the Gates of Hell, but I won't back down."- Tom Petty :-)

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

The Frbes site is pretty nice, and they aren't trying to get you to by stuff.

------------------
WHO ARE YOU

Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

I reccomend looking through them to see if there's anything interesting...

------------------
Charles Capps
Cheif Administrator, the solareclipse network
"I do whatever the voices in my head tell me to do."

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

Trinculo, you dont' HAVE to like the ads. All you have to do is CLICK them. That's IT. Click them, spend a TINY bit of time there, then hit the back button. We're not asking you to buy, we're only asking you to click.

------------------
Sex is sacred. Your body is a temple. Anyone need sanctifying? ;)

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

That's all I do. I click it, and, when the page gets loaded somewhat, I just go back. I don't even look at it.

This has nothing to do w/ whether or not you want to see what's being advertised. All it does is raise necessary funds for the Forums. If everyone only clicked the ads that looked interesting, this place would probably be permanantly shut down within a month. I'm sure you don't want that to happen, do you?

------------------
"You! Are you smarter than this one?"
-Ambassador Byleth to LaForge regarding Worf, TNG's "Liasons"

Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

I went to Discovery Health and looked up Insomnia. . .

Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

For the record, I officially do NOT support Tim's actions - if you click, just look around the site, find links elsewhere, etc... You might be surprised.

------------------
Charles Capps
Cheif Administrator, the solareclipse network
"I do whatever the voices in my head tell me to do."

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Yes, well, if something catches my eye, I'll look at it. But, as it is, medical and financial sites and such don't interest me much, so I don't bother. Surely, 'tis better to have clicked and ignored, than never to have clicked at all... :-)

------------------
Pierce: "We're back!"
Winchester: "Yes, like a burp from a bad onion..."
-some episode of M*A*S*H that I happened to see

Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Right-click.

Open in new window.

Look for something of even moderate interest.

Don't stop until you've seen at least 5 different pages.

Make the effort.

Make the sacrifice.

It's cheap.

It's free.

It takes less than 5 minutes of your precious time.

It'll save the Forums.

(With apologies to Nike for the paraphrase...)
Shuddap & do it!

--Baloo

------------------
All the wrong people have a good opinion of themselves.
www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/

Posted by Cargile (Member # 45) on :

Ohhh, but I don't want a credit card! Charles do I have to?

So if I put one of these dohickies on my pages, can I keep the money?

------------------
I was right in the middle of a f*cking reptile zoo. And somebody was giving booze to these goddam things."
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

Uh...so how come it doesn't open a new window when *I* click on it?

------------------
"I would be delighted to offer any advice I can on understanding women. When I have some, I'll let you know."
--Picard to Data, "In Theory"

Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

Like Baloo said: click on the add with the right button (as in: not the left button), and choose 'Open in new window'.

------------------
Wanted: Experienced Kamikaze Pilot

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

Of course, if you have a CRAPintosh, you don't HAVE two mouse buttons....

------------------
"Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to decide
No escape, no change of heart, no anyplace to hide
You are all I'll ever want, but this I am denied
Sometimes in my darkest thoughts, I wish I'd never learned
What it is to be in love and have that love returned"

Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Macs don't need two mouse buttons, after all.

You can achieve the same effect by holding down the mouse button, or getting a two-mouse button and assigning the second button to click-lock.

------------------
http://frankg.dgne.com/
"I could never sleep my way to the top, 'cause my alarm clock always wakes me right up." - TMBG

Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Frank: Whatever.

The bottom line is, do ya like having the forums enough to do something about it? If so, do like the man says and start clickin' on the ads. If not, shuddap and don't gripe when the forums fold because there's no money left to run 'em.

------------------
All the wrong people have a good opinion of themselves.
www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/

Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

I do click on the ads. :P

------------------
http://frankg.dgne.com/
"I could never sleep my way to the top, 'cause my alarm clock always wakes me right up." - TMBG