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CharlesM posted:Aren't they kinda hoodwinking you? In their offense, their security site hasn't been updated since 2012: 
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zen death robot posted:Seriously, please - for now you can go to:
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Adblock plus blocks them if youve got iPhone OS 9 btw, that's my current solution. Acceptable ads still lets the goon made ads through as well
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CharlesM posted:Aren't they kinda hoodwinking you? Are they birds?
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Dec 4, 2015 15:35
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Title of thread is right. Someone should really resolve the bad ad problem.
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Dec 4, 2015 15:59
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FactsAreUseless posted:Title of thread is right. Someone should really resolve the bad ad problem.
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Dec 4, 2015 16:00
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Lowtax posted:I'm trying to get the BRAND NEW BAD AD issue resolved with Rubicon now. I apologize, I thought they had actually resolved it by whitelisting certain ads, but poo poo is still getting past them. I will keep you all updated. Need to get Leonard .J .Krabbs to send of some sort of official lawyer type document. I'm sure he'll be able to hoodwink them into never ever again not in a trillion billion years serve us another bad ad. Well ok maybe an occasional few, but that's all darn'it.
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Dec 4, 2015 16:11
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Lowtax posted:yeah somebody should be working on this
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Dec 4, 2015 16:22
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FactsAreUseless posted:Seriously though Rubicon should be called Rubican't because they can't fix this! 
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Dec 4, 2015 17:53
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Its painfully obvious rubicon is fobbing you off. As this has been an issue for literally years and those kind of ads are a core business model for them. If ads are making insignificant amounts of cash for you (as you've stated many times), then disable them and either eliminate ads altogether or use google ads like everyone else instead of making users use adblock or pay you no ads to access the site.
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Dec 4, 2015 17:58
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What the-- this guy's flaming me!
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Dec 4, 2015 18:25
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Assfingeringlair posted:Its painfully obvious rubicon is fobbing you off. As this has been an issue for literally years and those kind of ads are a core business model for them.
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Dec 4, 2015 18:27
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Quintilius Lowtax, give me back my ads!Assfingeringlair posted:Its painfully obvious rubicon is fobbing you off. As this has been an issue for literally years and those kind of ads are a core business model for them. Eh they could be a little more on top of poo poo I guess but idk that it's an intentional scam.
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Dec 4, 2015 18:40
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Moridin920 posted:Quintilius Lowtax, give me back my ads! At this point 'not being staffed for the service you offer despite profits' should be viewed just as much as a scam. It's an ad network, not a mom-n-pop drugstore or one of those poor suffering multi-million kickstarter videogame companies.
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Kaizoku posted:At this point 'not being staffed for the service you offer despite profits' should be viewed just as much as a scam. It's an ad network, not a mom-n-pop drugstore or one of those poor suffering multi-million kickstarter videogame companies.
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Dec 4, 2015 20:02
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Lowtax posted:Well the problem is now that ads are generating more revenue than forums income, which has fallen 70-80%. So unfortunately I'm not in the financial position to ditch advertising networks at this point, and I need to get these issues resolved with them. I mean, they're a publicly traded company, they should have some way of dealing with this. Has advertising revenue fallen significantly as well? Because it looks like without attracting new users, eventually all your revenue streams will dry up despite whatever fancy "seriously* only good* ads**" network is presently loving you.
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epsilon-6 posted:Has advertising revenue fallen significantly as well? Because it looks like without attracting new users, eventually all your revenue streams will dry up despite whatever fancy "seriously* only good* ads**" network is presently loving you.
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Thought about opening registration?
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Assfingeringlair posted:Thought about opening registration?
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Assfingeringlair posted:Thought about opening registration? Opening registration will maybe bring in a few people, but 99% of the accounts will be spam bots and backup accounts for posters. It also reduces the likelihood people will pay for future accounts as they will expect accounts to become free in the future. And an account is 10 measly dollars, jfc, what potential quality poster can't afford that?
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Dec 4, 2015 21:08
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$10 for an account seems pretty open to me
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Dec 4, 2015 21:11
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Mrit posted:Opening registration will maybe bring in a few people, but 99% of the accounts will be spam bots and backup accounts for posters. It also reduces the likelihood people will pay for future accounts as they will expect accounts to become free in the future.
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Why keep rubicon around at all when you have google ads now?
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Thingyman posted:Why keep rubicon around at all when you have google ads now?
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Have you considered just banning everyone so they all have to re-register, I mean that'd be a good forty or fifty bucks in the bank right there
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Get a Patreon Lowtax, I'd throw in 5-10 bucks a month. I'm sure you could get a solid income stream, and the amounts could have goals and such.
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Mrit posted:Get a Patreon Lowtax, I'd throw in 5-10 bucks a month. I'm sure you could get a solid income stream, and the amounts could have goals and such. Or you could just donate directly to Lowtax like you can already.
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Dec 5, 2015 04:25
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The only thing I like more than making payments is making monthly payments.
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Dec 5, 2015 04:26
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I love making monthly payments through a middleman who can't keep my information secure.
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net cafe scandal posted:The only thing I like more than making payments is making monthly payments. I'm far too lazy to remember to donate every month, but I could ignore a recurring bill. 
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Dec 5, 2015 07:44
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We can set up an optional recurring billing system easy, but I'd have to figure out something to give to reward people who sign up for it.
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Dec 5, 2015 14:16
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Lowtax posted:We can set up an optional recurring billing system easy, but I'd have to figure out something to give to reward people who sign up for it. Cards Against Humanity gave people boxes of poop.
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Lowtax posted:We can set up an optional recurring billing system easy, but I'd have to figure out something to give to reward people who sign up for it.
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FactsAreUseless posted:You could change Archives access from a 30 dollar flat fee to like $5 or $10 a month, since archives take up a lot of server space and work.
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FactsAreUseless posted:You could change Archives access from a 30 dollar flat fee to like $5 or $10 a month, since archives take up a lot of server space and work.
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Lowtax posted:We're actually doing the opposite and going to hopefully try to merge the archives into the live db so search will work on them and everyone can access them.
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Lowtax posted:Plus it is defeating the entire purpose I originally began charging money for people to register (HINT: it wasn't a moneymaking idea, it was a "Jesus Christ get Tastyarmageddon off these loving forums" idea). imo this is one of the biggest reasons this forum isn't a poo poo show (well, not as much as other forums anyway).
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Lowtax posted:We can set up an optional recurring billing system easy, but I'd have to figure out something to give to reward people who sign up for it. Make gangtags a feature instead of the weird hack it is now. 20bux for someone to upload a gangtag, 1bux per month to give yourself an existing gangtag. This actually enhances functionality in a way since it lets people add/change gangtags without having to buy a whole new custom title. For 2bux you can change someone else's gangtag for a month. Add a subscribers-only fyadlite bullshit forum. People love those things. Sell IKships for it.
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seriously, right now my new latest top of the line iphone is the only machine I have that cannot take me to a page on the forums and STAY there, my ipad is several generations out of date in both hardware and os and it does it fine, my lovely computer does it fine, why can't this super expensive wonder phone perform the simple, basic task of browsing a web forum.
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Acne Rain posted:seriously, right now my new latest top of the line iphone is the only machine I have that cannot take me to a page on the forums and STAY there, my ipad is several generations out of date in both hardware and os and it does it fine, my lovely computer does it fine, why can't this super expensive wonder phone perform the simple, basic task of browsing a web forum.
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