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Forum Ads

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 5:57 pm
by sirinth
Umm. I just thought I'd point out that the current banner ad is advertising 'Pornstar Secrets' and links to a search for '*' at Amazon.com.
I doubt that'd be considered appropriate for the site. >.>

Not sure it really needs to be -said-, as I'm sure some of our mods have noticed it by now.
But it's very distracting. :shock:

Re: Forum Ads

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:13 am
by YeahYeahYouWere
My banner ad is for 'Steampunk Jewelry inspired by Victorian Science Fiction' and has been this same one for a few days now - not sure if this is better or worse than adult ads :)

Re: Forum Ads

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:00 am
by Yurtle
I have an Art Glass Jewelry ad but it changes every couple of days. Haven't seen a * ad yet though!

Re: Forum Ads

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:18 am
by Servotron
Sorry I don't see them as I use an ad blocker.

PM johloh about them, I seem to recall a similar problem with an un-related to crafts advert on the blog, I think it's something to do with Google Ads.

Re: Forum Ads

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:34 am
by double j
YeahYeahYouWere wrote:My banner ad is for 'Steampunk Jewelry inspired by Victorian Science Fiction' and has been this same one for a few days now
That is the same ad I have been seeing for days now.

Re: Forum Ads

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:01 pm
by johloh
PMing me is the way to get my attention quickly if something is up on the site...we've had problems w/ political ads from adsense before. the ones on the forum are through project wonderful.

there are 4 geographic areas, us, canada, europe, and other...so different people see different ads.

there are no current bidders on that ad with anything pron related, so not sure what happened. I imagine that was something against their TOS and it got taken down after some people complained, which is why I see no record of it.

right now it is set to auto-approval of ads, because I dont want to have to constantly approve bids...but, I can change that in the future if it becomes a problem.

Re: Forum Ads

Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:03 pm
by sirinth
It's back to the steampunk jewelry ad for me as well.
But there was a full day where that was the only ad I got. o.o
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a294/ ... m/pron.jpg
NSFW... for obvious reasons. No direct nudity, but still..

Re: Forum Ads

Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 3:32 pm
by johloh
yeah. thats definitely not something we want on the site. I still can't find a record of it to block them, so I assume they are removed from the ad site now.

Re: Forum Ads

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:51 am
by mariio
There is another * ad on the main page. I know this is FORUM ads, but still.

Re: Forum Ads

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:51 pm
by double j
More bad t-shirt ads on here. Glad my kids are not walking by right now with this ad on here.