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Mekora

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Ads on Forums?
« on: July 24, 2011, 04:02:22 am »
I know this game is 100% free and I am ever grateful for this, but why doesn't Planeshift put ads on maybe the sides of their forums? It could give Planeshift a tiny bit of funding when they need it etc. I personally wouldn't find it a bother, maybe others would... But I could only see more good come out of it than bad. If this has already been addressed, I am sorry.

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Re: Ads on Forums?
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2011, 05:36:32 am »
It was tried a while ago and for whatever reason they were taken down again.

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Re: Ads on Forums?
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2011, 09:26:30 am »
Was that around the time the PS main site had a virus on it?
Idk
Ads would be a good idea.
Im not sure where money goes, to PS.
Mabey it goes towards Server upgrades? more RAM ect. IDK I doubt talad would just distribute it to devs as pay XD
But I would donate if i had a job lol
Dohmo: Please clean up your language immediately.
Me: as i just said, what i said, fits in the guidlines of rated PG, i was just explaining to the G guy
Dohmo: Sorry I tried to e nice
Dohmo: and i'm telling you to clean it up. last warning
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Re: Ads on Forums?
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2011, 11:29:33 am »
It's not directly or explicitly related to either a site hack spreading a virus or a fraudulent report as malicious website.

As far as I remember, the tested Google Ad area went offline (possibly due to detected click abuse).

There have been expressions of jealousy against the PlaneShift project, and there will be. Sometimes subtle, sometimes illegal.

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Re: Ads on Forums?
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2011, 08:33:35 pm »
It surprising how many people actually know about planeshift.
Go to somwhere, a forum or some game site or somthing with chat, and ask if anyone played planeshift, 1 out of 15 say I have.
I dunno if the website for the server, that runs for RP is the same as for laanx, but i remember checking the site whenever laanx went offline, and it would say there were some 200 thousand accounts or somthing like that.
Point is, the people that do say yeah i have, dont have much positive to say :\
Dohmo: Please clean up your language immediately.
Me: as i just said, what i said, fits in the guidlines of rated PG, i was just explaining to the G guy
Dohmo: Sorry I tried to e nice
Dohmo: and i'm telling you to clean it up. last warning
Dohmo: now just do it
Dohmo: No more warnings

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LigH

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Re: Ads on Forums?
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2011, 10:02:01 pm »
They are not those who say "I still do"...

Some prefer to emphasize the negative, others the positive.

Bad teachers tell the pupil he is wrong. Good teachers tell the pupil how to do it better.

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