zlatkoAB
16-01-2011, 16:01
Why is this forum full of advertisement ,banners like this:
Ads by Google
BASIC Programmers
Liberty BASIC
gives you a
power toolkit
for Windows programming!
This is really annoying...
the forum costs thousands of dollars per year for hosting and for bandwidth, also the vbulletin software, the advertisement is one way to make a little balance.
Michael Hartlef
16-01-2011, 17:30
Like Zak said, it cost money for Eros to run it. So advertizing is some way of monetizing it.
ErosOlmi
16-01-2011, 20:22
Hosting thinBasic.com (and other domains) costs 114 Euro per month. It is hosted on a dedicated server. Google Ads brings me around 150 Euro per year. It is very little but is something.
Ads are driven only by Google Ads system.
They are placed in the upper and lover part of the page plus in first and last post of each thread (right side).
I know ads can be a little annoying but I think they are very light unless you have a very low screen resolution.
Regards
Eros
danbaron
17-01-2011, 02:22
They don't bother me.
You wouldn't believe the nonstop advertising in this country.
From the day I was born.
When I was a boy, I thought society would evolve, and advertising would decrease.
Instead, society has devolved, and advertising has exponentially increased.
The advertising in this forum, is trivial compared to what we are subjected to here, all day every day.
I could be wrong, but I predict that in the future, capitalism will be looked back on, as a barbaric, corrupt, destructive, total failure, driven by the cold-blooded greed of those who controlled it. Remember, that capitalism is only successful, when consumption continually increases. For capitalism, population growth is good, but for our species, it is bad. According to capitalism, the "market", should be the supreme decider of what should happen. Tell that to the wild weather events which are already beginning to appear, due to the greenhouse effect of man made combustion. Heat is energy. The more heat there is in the atmosphere, the more energy there is to drive extreme weather. The huge increase in combustion began, when the industrial revolution began. Now, its profoundly negative unintended consequences are manifesting. But those who profit from the status quo, will deny that industry has anything at all to due with weather and the evident climate change, until their last breaths. Their only allegiance is to greed. The same phenomenon was and still is apparent with cigarette manufacturers, they don't care one bit about how many die.
Additionally, since capitalism only thrives by ever increasing consumption (and therefore, disposal), and has thrived for the last 200 years, it is now becoming clear that the world is turning into one big garbage dump - the ocean is a good example.
I have never been to Europe, but as time passes, I become more and more convinced that it is much more evolved and compassionate than the United States. Here, capitalism is king, you only deserve something, if you have the money to pay for it. Simultaneously, the capitalists export all of the jobs, and proclaim that the only ones who have the right to food, shelter, and health care, are those who can pay for them. And, do you think it is only a coincidence, that, they happen to be the only ones, who have the money to pay?
Concerning the advertising in this forum, maybe I'll start worrying when it begins to take up more space than the posts, and when, it begins appearing as video.
:p