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when you decide which one you want to go with, i vote for the side ad. the one up top is distracting, and may lead to accidental clicks. which isn't bad for you guys i suppose, but could be aggrivating. my 2 pennies worth.

Like Mike, I find the top ones, now that I have seen them, a bit distracting.

I find my eyes jumping to them for a split second, realizing they are adds, and jumping back to the point I was reading almost immediately.

It is kinda like when Firefox blocks a popup and alerts you, you see the motion and understand what is happening while spending little to no attention to it.

However, with the side ads, I find them less distracting and often find myself glancing at them without realizing it.

they are fine with me.

Plus, us losers who just post in the lounge all day have already learned to ignore the banners, taking ad advise from people who do nothing but cost you in bandwidth and generate no revenue is not really the best thing.

Yeah, you guys suck. You all should check out the ads on occasion like I do.

rich and eric can't encourage it though. but we can! click away guys! i do on occassion, i clicked the mission impossible banner today, and the google maps for phone banner the other day. i try.

It actually doesn't help us at all to just click on banners for the sake of it.

Most of our banners are not paid per-click. Even most of the Google ones are not per-click.

For the ones that are per-click, a click that doesn't result in a transaction may give us a few extra cents short-term, but it is also slightly lowers the advertiser's ROI for that campaign, making them less likely continue advertising through that channel. ☹️

Of course I'm not saying don't click if you're genuinely interested! 🙂 ...just that "extra" clicks to try and help us ...don't actually help us.

We really appreciate the desire to help us out! ...but really it's better to just treat our ads like any other ads anywhere else. It all w...
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i click them all the time, but always on accident.

its not like an actual sign-up for services hit.

they probably get paid by the click though.

yes, but even more if the person actually signs up and keeps service.

but thats probably difficult with the major carrier forums being such a hotbed of corporate whoring... if someone asks a question they start attacking them and scaring them away.

it is pretty bad.
'i have a question, will verizon let me do this?'
'you go to hell with your verizon hating, you troll!'

i think i actually saw that conversation once.

oh yeah, that whole bluetooth thing effectively destroyed that forum.

verizons? yeah it did. now there is a 'verizon disables bluetooth! did you guys know that!?' thread weekly. cingular is releasing a crippled phone though i believe. it's an LG, so it may just be because they are used to making crippled phones.

yeah, so the cingular troll faction or "CTF" is also a Bluetooth troll organization, merely for cohesive whoring. all those kids have their corporate logos tatood on their forehead.

either that or the vzw logo with a slash through it.

yeah, but it works both ways, the verizon kids are just as bad.

i know. i try not to be.

harsh.