Hi All

I'm pleased to announce, as a special thank you to those who pay for the ScoobyNet Plus subscription, you can now use your [User CP > Edit Options] to configure how you would like to see the various advert banners on ScoobyNet, or even remove them altogether.

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This service is available as we have now allocated part of the subscription fee of ScoobyNet Plus to the costs of delivering pages to you as you browse ScoobyNet.

We would like to thank you yet again for your support of ScoobyNet, and while we would recommend you keep the majority of the banners live (in-case you miss an offer, or product which would have interested you) we are pleased to offer you this option to turn them off.

Thanks again

ScoobyNet

PS. For the latest list of features and benefits available to plus members see http://bbs.scoobynet.com/premium-memberships-subscriptions-413/627955-scoobynet-plus-subscription.html

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It's full screen again! :thumb:

:)

I just left a new post on the general forum with my opinions on this. Sorry i did not see this post at all! lol.
And for once, it was all positive! lol.

I wondered what the big database error was! ;)

What banners? (firefox user) :D

BOB

I ask you, please do not block the banners on ScoobyNet.

It leaves us with no way to earn money to pay for the cost of delivery pages to you when you download them.

ScoobyNet is offered under the conditions that the banners are downloaded. While I realise you have every technical ability to block them, it causes us a signficant problem, and means that other users are carrying you.

To be clear. If nobody on scoobynet blocked banners, we wouldn't need to run the banner down the right hand side at all.

May i ask why we have an option to block them at all then?

Given the short amount of time, we've had to deal with them, i actually find myself not overly bothered by them. Ok, thye catch your eye from timir to time, but i know they are there and just browse by them now.

The reason for the ads :

When you download a page on ScoobyNet it costs us money. We can earn money for that page if we show adverts on it.

Result : everyone (except leeching freeloaders) has to download the ads. Some of which are very useful / interesting, I'll add.

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Some people don't want to download the ads..

So we offer a paid service which satisfies our need to pay for the cost of serving pages to them, but removes the adverts they don't want to see.

Its a perfectly fair arrangement :)

So because we pay the subscriptions, we get the choice, but if we decide NOT to have tha adverts, you lose money?

What do we get, if we keep the adverts up? :D

LOL :D

I knew this was a bad idea! :p

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Seems like a good idea to me. It's also nice to receive thanks for paying for Plus membership. Cheers and well done that man:D :D :D

Chris.

I'll make sure to turn the ads back on.

But seriously, if there wasn't so many ads everywhere...

whats blocking got to do with the banners on the right?


Bob

Hi Bob

Thank you for that, I genuinely appreciate it.

The reason I stated that if nobody blocked ads we wouldn't need to run the banner down the right at all is simply that we would earn enough revenue from the impressions on the other banners to make the banner on the right completely unnecessary.

even though I have the ads turned off why can I see the google syndiaction ads at the top of a thread? (Firefox user, but its the same in IE7)

I'll speak with Internet Brands about this.

That ad slot was never designed to be removable, mainly as it only ever advertised parts of scoobynet. I see that google ads are now there, so I'll double check if this is a mistake, and whether these can be added to the removable ads.

OK.. I think this was a misunderstanding. The guys from IB have been great.

They just gave me immediate permission to pull the ad slot and revert it back to what we have used it for before, which is an information panel (as you see now, it is advertising our event coming up).

Afterwards, we're going to discuss how to use that slot, and if indeed it does have advertising on it, the members who can remove ads, will be able to remove it as required.

Thumbs up from me.