Title: Nasty adverts
Rik Roots - July 1, 2007 10:49 AM (GMT)
Hi, Jane.
I'm much liking your site already - not just the temporary home!
My only quibble would be with some of the adverts that pop up on the site. Some of them can be useful, but others are pure poison, for instance:
I've been on other boards where the board owner has managed to selectively block adverts from undesirable organisations - is this a possibility for you? Or maybe a thread directing the unsuspecting visitor to more information about parasites like poetry dot com, such as:
Absolute Write - Getting the Scoop on Poetry Contest Scams
Wikipedia article on poetry.com
Just a thought ...
I'm much liking your site already - not just the temporary home!
My only quibble would be with some of the adverts that pop up on the site. Some of them can be useful, but others are pure poison, for instance:
I've been on other boards where the board owner has managed to selectively block adverts from undesirable organisations - is this a possibility for you? Or maybe a thread directing the unsuspecting visitor to more information about parasites like poetry dot com, such as:
Absolute Write - Getting the Scoop on Poetry Contest Scams
Wikipedia article on poetry.com
Just a thought ...
Jane Holland - July 1, 2007 04:31 PM (GMT)
Rik, I hear what you're saying but I already addressed the advert issue in one of my stickies in the ex-Poem Forum section. I can certainly look into blocking selected advertisers, but from what I've seen of the 'rules', you have to pay to have adverts removed or blocked, and I'm not in a position to do that. And attempting to block adverts without paying for the privilege is listed as a reason for having your forum 'deleted' by Invision, the owners.
Frankly, anyone posting here should already realise that adverts like that are not from bona fide poetry organisations. If I could win $10,000 every day with my poems, I wouldn't be stuck here, posting on this forum. I'd be relaxing somewhere on the Med. and planning my next move toward world domination.
But you're right. Parasitic 'poetry companies' who lure innocent wannabe poetry writers into their traps should be expunged from the face of the world. I'll leave it up to you to write to the relevant authorities. Sorry not to be more sympathetic but the 'real world' is full of traps for the unwary too. Glamour modelling. Email banking scams. Fake holiday offers. I'm not here to hold newbies' hands as they discover what's out there in poetry. I'm here to moderate posts and keep dialogue flowing.
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I will however urge browsers to look at this Wikipedia article about Poetry dot com, also linked to by Rik above. <_<
Frankly, anyone posting here should already realise that adverts like that are not from bona fide poetry organisations. If I could win $10,000 every day with my poems, I wouldn't be stuck here, posting on this forum. I'd be relaxing somewhere on the Med. and planning my next move toward world domination.
But you're right. Parasitic 'poetry companies' who lure innocent wannabe poetry writers into their traps should be expunged from the face of the world. I'll leave it up to you to write to the relevant authorities. Sorry not to be more sympathetic but the 'real world' is full of traps for the unwary too. Glamour modelling. Email banking scams. Fake holiday offers. I'm not here to hold newbies' hands as they discover what's out there in poetry. I'm here to moderate posts and keep dialogue flowing.
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I will however urge browsers to look at this Wikipedia article about Poetry dot com, also linked to by Rik above. <_<
Rik Roots - July 1, 2007 04:58 PM (GMT)
Jane - thanks. That extra message in the other thread should do fine.
Sorry to be so anal about it.
Sorry to be so anal about it.
Jane Holland - July 1, 2007 09:48 PM (GMT)
No need to apologise for being anal. ;)