If I had a small banner ad (468×60) between every post on the site that was 1000 words or more (at the end of the post), how upset would you be?
1 is not upset, 10 is stop-reading-the-site.
Answer honestly, I can take it.
EDIT:
Hey, thanks for the support folks. It looks like, judging by people who bothered to respond, about 5% of you are going to end up annoyed with me. I guess we’ll find out soon.
And yeah, I have no plan to start using Google Adsense. The lack of control is really gross, I generally approve every advertisement that runs on the site, something I can’t do with Google. I know a number of my friends ended up with pro-Prop 8 ads through AdSense, for example, and I’d rather take my site offline then have something like that happen.
New post soon.
- Chris
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January 15th, 2009 at 3:46 am
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January 15th, 2009 at 4:44 am
Depends on the banner.
Something comic or book related, or otherwise innocuous? 1
January 15th, 2009 at 7:44 am
0, as I generally just read the RSS feed.
January 15th, 2009 at 8:43 am
1 (but I wouldn’t see it anyway–even if there was no AdBlock it would still be pretty low, maybe a 2)
January 15th, 2009 at 8:49 am
I wouldn’t be upset at all….er…0
January 15th, 2009 at 9:29 am
I’d put it at a “2″ as well, though I have the same question as Stacy about the type of ads. I have no idea how those banner systems work and how much control you’d have over which ads ran, and I’d hate to see you stuck with something horrible.
January 15th, 2009 at 9:40 am
1. Whatever it takes to reward you for your efforts and/or keep the site going.
January 15th, 2009 at 9:47 am
1. Don’t care as long as it’s noting ridiculous.
January 15th, 2009 at 9:56 am
1: not upset at all…do what you have to do.
January 15th, 2009 at 10:07 am
1. Could careless. Comics related a zero.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:04 am
1. Just never add in-text ads. Those make me stop reading sites.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:08 am
1.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Hmm it depends…
9- If I see another MangaFox ad.
8- And I sure don’t want them to show up on the RSS feed.
4- Anything else.
January 15th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Heh, manga pirate ads was the first thing to come to my mind too… that would be a 10.
That’s the thing, isn’t it? I don’t care how many ads there are, but what what kind of ads they are. As long as flash heavy ads are kept to a minimum so that I can still scroll the browser without delay, and they are sufficiently distinguishable from the content, 1.
January 15th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Ed & Simon- What’s mangafox? Did I run an ad for them or something?
- Chris
January 15th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
One of many for-profit membership pirate sites with pilferred scanlations. They’re coming up through Google Adsense mainly.
January 15th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
And no, I haven’t seen it on your site, but they pop up on a lot of other manga blogs, and even Publisher’s Weekly…
The problem is Google, really. They just don’t seem to care enough to do a thing about it.
January 15th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
1 – as long as it’s not some hideous seizure-inducing animated thing, or one of those terrifying pimple-popping ones I keep seeing on Hotmail.
January 15th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Mangafox is for profit? Really? (I never really thought about it much, I guess some people would be morally against scanlations…Anyways…)
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January 15th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Actually I hate ads between post. They are more acceptable on the sides.
But mostly I do read the posts in my reader, so I wouldn´t see the ads.
January 16th, 2009 at 6:18 am
1 — if it supports 212, it’s good.
January 16th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Hey, thanks for the support folks. It looks like, judging by people who bothered to respond, about 5% of you are going to end up annoyed with me. I guess we’ll find out soon.
And yeah, I have no plan to start using Google Adsense. The lack of control is really gross, I generally approve every advertisement that runs on the site, something I can’t do with Google.
- Chris
January 16th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I´d say 11 which means in 2010 I´m gonna fly over to canada and suplex Chris Butcher for his annoying adds.
Unless it´s something sleazy, in which case I´m gonna say 1.
January 16th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
1 – You are providing the great info about comic industry. I hope you can get the reward.
January 18th, 2009 at 5:25 pm