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Originally posted by Swamper It's amazing how one pop-up causes headaches, just hit Alt+Space and then C and the window is closed in under a second... A small % of users use pop-up stoppers and I know who you are, it is very easy to catch, I just haven't enforced it. Given the decline of internet advertising over the past few years it has become necessary to subsidize revenue with popups. Banner click-through ratios are VERY low and no longer provide meaningful results. Eradicate the means that webmasters obtain revenue to support their servers and you soon eliminate the site that you came to visit in the first place.

game, set, match...

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Yep, so true swamper.

I click through the ads everyonce in a while just to give you better ratios. course i don't actually buy anything but, at least i click the ad.

and, that battle of the sexes on is actually pretty cool, the video is free to watch you don't have to sign up for anything, and it's hillarious.

why don't some of you people complaining actually click on it, and then swamper won't HAVE to put so many ads on the site.

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Originally posted by HyPeRSoNiC yeah!!!! besides, it's only 1 stinkin banner!!! imagine if it was like all those other sites where like 10 banners open up in your face, and each one pops up another 10 and when you close them they pop up more banners and so on and so on.......... that would be REALLY annoying. but I don't mind closing 1 window.... I even clicked the link a few times just to help Swamper. (websites get more money if ppl click the links in the ads)..... if it's for the survival of the TA boards, I'm just fine with it!!!

LoL thats shit is annooooying...first like 5 banners pop and u close 1 another 5 pops and just mutiplies!!!! OMG

I'm watching "battle of the sexes" now. you ppl really have nothing to complain about!!! it's hilarious!!!!! I loved it!!!
and there were other IFilm clips afterwords.... loved them too!!!!

you ppl should really stop complaining!!! Swamper has good taste.
I'll shut off my pop-up stopper when I go into TA from now on.
and I'll try to click the banner at every time!!!!

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i think the ppl are moaning about THE AD itself not the pop-up presence in the site

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am i using a pop-up stopper?

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i writed a song.

I want to know if the popup is supposed to pop up every time i load a page here?

The only way i can stop it at popping up is to leave it open in the background when I'm on tranceaddict.com, i dont' really mind, i seen worst cases of webmasters trying to finance their servers, which are not cheap by the way.

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Livet er en lang lort....
Jeg tager bare større bider end andre.

but Swamper, is 1 ad enough??? I mean, there must be some other way you finance this server......

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er... is showing the SAME popup ALL the time efficient? How about some variety? :LOL

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I know what it's like, I currently have hosting costs of £170+ per month, and that's in the UK where bandwidth is v. expensive compared to the US.

I fund mine with banner ads, but the ads are all from companies relevant to the site who have a close involvement and offer special deals to the forums members. No popups and no random ads.

If I ran a site like this, I'd be approaching record labels and shops to try and arrange some form of sponsorship / advertising / affiliate setup.

However Swamper wants to run things is up to him though.

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BT Mercury & Solace (Black Hole 12" - BLH112) - got it! c/o discogs marketplace
DJ Tiesto Sparkles Remix (Transa / Airscape / Starecase) (Black Hole 12" - BLH118) - mine at last! Thanks to Gemm
San Feel My Love / Stroke (In Trance We Trust 12" - ITWT302) - in my collection finally! discogs marketplace again
Nunca House Of Doom (In Trance We Trust 12" - ITWT300) - if you have this in an ITWT sleeve with the promo sheet let me know!

What are you guys going to complain about next? Who cares gees, what's the big deal? 10 seconds of your time? Swamper, I say that you add an extra pop up now haha

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Originally posted by Munken I want to know if the popup is supposed to pop up every time i load a page here? The only way i can stop it at popping up is to leave it open in the background when I'm on tranceaddict.com, i dont' really mind, i seen worst cases of webmasters trying to finance their servers, which are not cheap by the way.

If it keeps coming up then you don't have cookies enabled since they are activated per active session so you should only see it once during a surfing stint on the forums...

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