WTF is up with all of the ads on SBNation?

by ortonius on Oct 30, 2008 11:44 AM CDT Comment 18 comments

Holy crap! I come to LSB today and there are pop-up ads freaking everywhere. Ads by SBNation that are covering up posts and fanshots and pretty much everything else. They are long or wide...and there is NO way to close them. WTF???

This sucks!

Your FanPost must be at least 75 words long.

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+1 on this

they are up and down RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of the screen ugh

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by knockoutking on Oct 30, 2008 11:47 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

AdMuncher

Try it. Buy it. I never ever see an ad on SBN. AdMuncher.com

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

by Ed Coffin on Oct 30, 2008 11:48 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

is this an ad?

by Telegraph on Oct 30, 2008 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs

Haha

GREINKE HO!!!!!

by oc on Oct 30, 2008 12:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

but did it block

heyu’s comment in the other thread? lol

by knockoutking on Oct 30, 2008 2:39 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nope

Spammers have learned about blocks for anything autosent, so have taken to scripting legit signups onto sites, followed by one post teasing. Over the past couple of years, I’ve had to delete maybe 15 like that from NMLR. Posts, not ads.

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

by Ed Coffin on Oct 30, 2008 4:14 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

hmmm

interesting

by knockoutking on Oct 31, 2008 12:37 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

does NMLR have the picture that has to be read/right number/letter combo put in?

by knockoutking on Oct 31, 2008 12:37 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

No

It’s a low budget PhP forum. There is a signup confirmation link returned by emai. that is required in order for a login to be activated. Roboscripts don’t return the email, so are blocked. However, a person can click on the confirmation link, sign in, and post.

Only the most elegant spam scripts “know” enough to make an email reply, and even then, it takes a person signing in to post.

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

by Ed Coffin on Oct 31, 2008 1:22 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

heh equally

and i doubt that LSB and newberg are high on the target list for spammers (yayyyy!)

by knockoutking on Oct 31, 2008 3:25 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yea!

Thermoformers R Us…online pictures and videos!

… not at all what I was expecting.

he’s still hitting better than Saltalasuckia—while playing vastly superior defense...Athos

by Escher on Oct 30, 2008 12:07 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Firefox 3.0.3, AdBlock Plus

It works.

by Inkara1 on Oct 30, 2008 12:29 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs

+1

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by Dirk Diggler on Oct 30, 2008 12:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

+infinity

doesn’t bother me a bit.

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by lisa w on Oct 30, 2008 1:25 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs