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Offline pzkpfw

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #135 on: August 21, 2012, 10:25:38 PM »
Would you still like to have your say, if you were charged ten dollars per say?  ;D

I don't think that's such a bad thing (in proportion). If email cost more to send, we'd all get less spam.

I'd pay $0.01 (or maybe even $0.05) per post to any of the forums I belong to.

Hmmm... I think you're onto something here. ;)

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #136 on: August 21, 2012, 11:23:35 PM »
...and at 1,000 posts I get a set of steak knives?
To use....how, exactly?

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #137 on: August 21, 2012, 11:29:08 PM »
Hmmm... I think you're onto something here. ;)

...and at 1,000 posts I get a set of steak knives?

Sure! At your current rate of posting you can expect to reach 1000 posts in about 30-35 years. ;)
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Offline Echnaton

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #138 on: August 22, 2012, 07:38:19 AM »
That may be fine for these guys, who have under 20 posts. But what about more active posters.  Do we get a volume discount?  At $0.02 I'd owe almost $8.00 by now.  That enough to buy two gallons of gas.  And whose dollars are we using her, the exchange fees will cost a bundle if we are dunned for every post.
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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #139 on: August 22, 2012, 01:15:22 PM »
I would stop posting altogether, because I'm not good at moderation and can't afford my current level.
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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #140 on: August 22, 2012, 03:18:40 PM »
That may be fine for these guys, who have under 20 posts. But what about more active posters.  Do we get a volume discount?  At $0.02 I'd owe almost $8.00 by now.  That enough to buy two gallons of gas.  And whose dollars are we using her, the exchange fees will cost a bundle if we are dunned for every post.

Oh, it can be Zimbabwe dollars as far as I am concerned.  I just wanted to find a way to use "per say" in a sentence.
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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #141 on: August 22, 2012, 10:03:59 PM »
That may be fine for these guys, who have under 20 posts. But what about more active posters.  Do we get a volume discount?  At $0.02 I'd owe almost $8.00 by now.  That enough to buy two gallons of gas.  And whose dollars are we using her, the exchange fees will cost a bundle if we are dunned for every post.

Oh, it can be Zimbabwe dollars as far as I am concerned.  I just wanted to find a way to use "per say" in a sentence.

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #142 on: August 22, 2012, 10:25:55 PM »
I would stop posting altogether

That's all the reason I need to never implement mandatory fees. :)

The forum doesn't really cost me much to operate. It would if it was as busy as BAUT, and if that ever happened I'd consider adding a voluntary donations box and/or advertising to help cover the costs. But any kind of membership fees would be unlikely, except maybe to give special privileges to the paid members.
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Offline Glom

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #143 on: August 23, 2012, 02:10:08 AM »
Modest advertising like Google ads can be good because they provide a source of amusement.

Imagine all the moon real estate ones we'd get.

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #144 on: August 23, 2012, 04:46:28 AM »
That's all the reason I need to never implement mandatory fees. :)

Aw . . . .

In all seriousness, Google ads wouldn't bother me, provided they didn't flash or make noise.  Though of course, we could also just accept the pun which started this sidebar and move on!
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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #145 on: August 23, 2012, 10:19:36 AM »
I always wonder about the "pre-video" ads on YouTube - the advertisers don't seem to have caught on yet that you need to get your message into the first five seconds, before the 'SKIP' button becomes active.
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Offline carpediem

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #146 on: August 25, 2012, 11:12:49 AM »
I always wonder about the "pre-video" ads on YouTube - the advertisers don't seem to have caught on yet that you need to get your message into the first five seconds, before the 'SKIP' button becomes active.
Are there people out there not using Adblock Plus?

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #147 on: August 25, 2012, 11:23:06 AM »
Are there people out there not using Adblock Plus?
Yes. I, for one, use Opera's built-in filtering system.

On a more serious note, there still are a lot of people who run IE without any ad blocking. Usually if you are able to install a third-party browser, you can also use an ad blocker, so it's a lot rarer to see a user with FF but without Adblock Plus.

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #148 on: August 25, 2012, 11:40:10 AM »
I don't use any ad blockers (other than the built in measures to prevent pop-ups and pop-unders). Most ads don't bother me. It's only when they employ seizure inducing animation or audio that I get bothered by them. Plus, as a web developer, I have to make sure I'm seeing the websites that I work on exactly the way they are supposed to, and I don't trust ad blockers not to remove non-advertisement images by accident.
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth.
I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.
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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #149 on: August 25, 2012, 01:19:26 PM »
I don't use an ad blocker, but I'm thinking about starting just because the ads on the site where I read newspaper comics are really disruptive.  I hate anything where you can accidentally start a video playing without clicking on anything.
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