Why are full screen adverts back on Bit-Tech?

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Relix, and the Word was Relix.
Now Relix's stomach was empty, and the Spirit of Relix was hovering over the Forum.
And Relix said, Let there be cheesecake: and there was cheesecake.
A prophet shall the Lord Relix raise up unto you of your brethren; he shall be named Nexxo and from him shall you hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.

Is that Rule 1?

 

Well, BT... you are cruising for a bruisin... or at least, you are making me seriously consider putting adblock on this computer... I really don't mind you guys getting money if that means there are some images(animated or not) on your site someone else put there. But if you allow those ads to interfere with my browsing, I get jumpy.

I know it's not you guys putting or authorizing these ads here, but if someone is in the position to let them removed, it's you.

 

Not really. As has been mentioned before Simon or whoever, can talk to the ads team and offer feedback (which he has done before and is doing again on our behalf) but he can't just take it upon himself to remove ads. The ads team has to decide that and they don't have to listen to Simon either.

 

Ok, sounds fair. Who should we complain to then?

 

As it has been discussed in this thread before we can always contact the big wigs, however if they do not listen to their employees (with a good standing - editor) then why would they listen to us?

Edit: It has been a long day...

However, that is not really the attitude to have towards this, Simon etc have been working hard with us - even though we shoot them down and they are faced with a group of upset people - to get ads that make everyone happy. But as well all large organisations everything takes time!

 

I believe current corporate procedure is
1. Start a facebook page entitled ******** is c**p
2. moan about it on twitter desperately hoping it will trend.
3. start a facebook page moaning about how your twitter post didn't trend
4. get your page noticed by national press by a) forgetting to wear underwear b) getting a council to try and censor your blog c) get famous and then avoid paying tax whilst not being a donor to the current political power.

at least I think that's how it currently works

 

Need to vent. I HATE THIS NEW ADVERTISING BANNER

FFS Bit tech get rid of it.

EDIT

Feel better now.

 

Did Adblock make you feel better?

 

adblock it is then...have to say that ie9 banner ad is god damn awful

 

Sorry guys, the ie ad has crashed my browser 1 time to many, let us know when it's gone so I can add bit back to chrome's ad-block whitelist

 

Is it the browser or is it Flash? The latest Flash version has known problems with crashing.

Still, at least it's a way of stopping those inconvenient ads from running

 

The IE ad expanded on mouseover, turned yellow and then killed the page.

It probably is a flash problem, as that updated yesterday, but it still results in an unreadable page.

 

Yes the IE add is the worse, it disabled my mouse until I have clicked on it. Bit-tech/CPC this is unacceptable! I will cancel my subscription if this is not corrected.

 

IE ad seems to have disappeared. This is good because I was just about to install an adblocker for the first time ever because of it. bit-tech can rest assured their revenue stream is safe for now (until the next such type ad appears and then I'll be all over that sh!t)

 

nope, it's still here (got it this morning on my work PC)

 

Realised I had admin rights on my work PC. Installed Chrome with Adblock and Bit's irritating ads are now gone. Sorry but I found them getting more and more intrusive.

 

OK, the IE9 ad was sort of acceptable compared to this NetApp ad, which is simply impossible. Are you guys serious at throwing it out at every bloody page, in middle of it ? Click on forum, NetApp ad. Click on new posts, NetApp ad. Click on page 2, NetApp ad. Click on a article, NetApp ad. Go to bit-tech homepage, NetApp ad.

 

The annoying IE ad and put Bit-tech on your task bar stuff is gone. However, there's a highly annoying NetApp ad popping up in the middle of the page. I must have clicked close on it at least a dozen or so times... every single damned page, every thread I looked at. (Yep, exactly as faugusztin said above.)

I have a lot of patience, but this is trying mine. Advertising revenue is what makes things go, but Adblock is going to be on soon. The other option is just not visiting and participating on these forums any longer, which would be a shame. Oh, and I would sooner have a root canal than buy NetApp's product.

 

Arghhh another bloody advert Adblock back on then.

So is this what old Felix Dennis see's bt as then just a place to put his cr *p adverts on then? sure say's a lot about what he thinks about the members.

 

Guys, this goes to far. An advert in the middle of the page, every f*ckin page? Adblock it is.