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emjaycue
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Brunswick, ME, USA
Jun 2000
time: 05:13
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I'm sure there will be plenty of complaints...
Don't stupid advertisers know that they make people LESS likely to buy their product when they annoy them?
Ok here's the logic -- I am going to associate my product/brand name with a feeling of annoyance. That'll get people to want it!! It's kinda like a TV commercial with a soundtrack of someone scaping their nails on a blackboard. Quality stuff.
--M
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I cannot even see the ad, the url doens't get through. 
Anyway, this whole advertising thing on the internet is going to end. As Ugo shows, most of these ads are to attract traffic to their sites and the reason they want more traffic is to get more advertising income, that comes from ... yes.
It's just a bubble, going to collapse when the venture capitalists get their sense back.
The disdvntage probably will be that much of the stuff that's free on the net right now won't be so anymore.
BTW: I hate the popups
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Just sent an email to Irex@gamestats.com
I suggest others to do likewise.
Thoughtful responses get more attention then flames, by the way.
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TigToad
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Glendale, AZ USA
Dec 1999
time: 22:13
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Let me just say that if the pop-ups continue I'll be gone. I love the forums here, but I hate pop up windows with a tremendous passion.
Tig
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JAMiAM
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Santa Clara, CA, USoA
May 1999
time: 21:13
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My complaint was sent to the link that Markos provided. Let's hope for an early, and favorable, resolution to this nonsense.
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Don't wanna write? Copy and paste this one!
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Dear Gamestats,
Along with a number of frustrated users, I am making a request to remove the UGO pop ad that is appearing on the Apolyton Civilization Site <http:\\apolyton.net>. This is a Macromedia pop up ad featuring "Whirlgirl." Not only is this ad instrusive and annoying, it is also causing many of our browsers to crash. Furthermore, you should be aware that many angry users are now installing KillAd software on their desktops. Not only is the "WhirlGirl" ad being killed, but now EVERY OTHER ad is also. Normally these users felt it wasn't necessary to use such software, but they cannot be blamed for resorting to it now. Surely this is not good for Gamestat ad revenue.
Even lurking users have come forward to vent about the issue because they were so frustrated. See the following thread:
http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum20/HTML/000803.html
Please, this is not only degrading your users' faith in the reputation of their host, but also is killing your revenues as well. The Apolyton site owners are taking alot of heat for this.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Your Name
firstlast@name.com
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Derek (edited June 18, 2000).]</font>
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MyOlde
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Haliburton, Ontario, Canada
Jun 1999
time: 05:13
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I've sent an e-mail complaining about the Whirlgirl pop-up.
I'm with the others: I can't handle having to click it off every time the screen changes. And I'm not about to track down some solution for it at some other site.
This is a great site, but not if the pop-ups continue.
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Bird
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South Orange, New Jersey
Jan 1970
time: 00:13
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Sent my perhaps not so nice e-mail. Either the pop ups go or I go. Screw ugo.
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Leonidas
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I'm going to be writing too. I came to the forum earlier today, but that popup was so annoying, I left. I can understand if it pops up when you first come to this site, but does it have to popup EVERY TIME the screen changes?
It's more annoying than black flies on a hot summer day.
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Go tell the Spartans, passerby:
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
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What I find even more inflammatory is the fact that access is barred to anyone outside of the US. This is discriminatory, as well as the ad being annoying. I am emailing FORTHWITH.
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The (piss) artist formally known as Provost Harrison, now transmogrified into AI, to whom it may concern.
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IF I SEE THAT B*TCH ONE MORE ****ING TIME, THEN I'M BLOW HER HEAD OFF AND THEN DO A DRIVEBY ON UGO HEADQUARTERS.
MUTHUR****ERS.
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It seems to be gone now.
Can we have some post traumatic stress counselling?
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While I never had this problem (I already had The Proxomitron installed, which can be set to kill Popups but not ads), I'll send them an E-mail anyway.
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No need, the little whore has gone. I hope whirlgirl dies horribly in a road traffic accident.
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I've just got mail that the pop-up has been removed from the Gamestats network. Send your thanks to John Hoskin at irex@gamestats.com for his efforts.
And close those evil programs, will you?
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<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
<img src=/forums/"/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1>
</font><font size=1>Originally posted by CapTVK on 06-19-2000 10:33 AM</font>
Apparently John isn't a big fan of web filtering software (I wonder why?). He considers it a form of theft because I'm reading for free without the ads. Interesting form of corporate management logic. Does that also make people reading newspaper/magazine clippings in public libraries criminals, from a corporate viewpoint?
<img src=/forums/"/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>When you enter this site, you agree to read our content, use our forums and our file archives for free, and in exchange to see the ads on our pages. We do our part. What would you call not doing your part?
As for old newspaper/magazine clippings, we promise to give in 10 years all of our content without the ads to any interested public library. Happy? 
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