[RESOLVED] Unrest over the pop-up advertisements

[Genesis F5]

There's a thread in the Coffee Lounge about FK's adoption of advertisement through pop-up notification: link to thread.

A lot of people are unhappy with this. We're more than willing to accept the inline advertisements scattered around the page, but pop-ups are really a bother, especially when they're placed in a forum where the user is constantly checking for updates or browsing new threads. With every page view comes the possibility of another pop-up advertisement and after a while, they really add up.

Would it be possible to somehow work in another type of advertisement so we can get rid of the pop-up ones? I've even changed my signature / avatar to gain revenue for the site as an alternative form of advertisement.

Also, a lot of users have problems maintaining system stability with IBM's resource heavy Flash advertisements (namely the one with the guy free-falling through the cogs.).

If you could at least take that one (free-falling guy) out and put a static image in it's place, that'd help out a lot.

A big thanks though to everyone who makes FK happen. We do understand that a lot of money is needed to keep Flash Kit up and running and we fully support any means necessary to do that.

- Genesis F5

[Genesis F5]

It looks like some changes were made. Thanks a lot for taking our recommendations into consideration. Flash Kit is far too nice of a site to have something as tacky as pop-ups.

Thanks again.

[JPnyc]

That's just a questionnaire that is run periodically, and never for very long. It's not an ad per se, but just research.

[lefteyewilly]

is it your research? If so, maybe you should have put the FK logo on there to make it not look like spam. If it was for your guys benefits, i would have clicked.

[JPnyc]

No, I don't believe it's our survey.

[Chris_Seahorn]

That particular one seems to have run it's course for now. Haven't seen it in a day or two so I assume it's done with it's periodic run