06-03-2001 08:22									#1
	Pop-ups Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Am I the only one that gets pop-up ads for e-bay once in a while from this site? I'm not actually complaining about it (yet), but I just want to confirm that I'm not the only one getting this.

	06-03-2001 09:15									#2
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YES! Turn them OFF please.


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	06-03-2001 12:51									#3
	Put an end to popups!

I also get it on my system, and I get it at other sites also. Stupid e-bay pop-up! I'll never use it.

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	07-03-2001 00:19									#4
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Make it stop...

	07-03-2001 10:30									#5
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Turn them off yourself...with something like Proxomitron or ZoneBlaster you'll never be bothered by ads or pop-ups again.

Shock the what?

	07-03-2001 11:15									#6
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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 Seeker on 03-07-2001 12:30 AM</font>
Turn them off yourself...with something like Proxomitron or ZoneBlaster you'll never be bothered by ads or pop-ups again.

Shock the what?
<img src=/forums/"/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>

Yeah right, and while I'm at it I'll just go and tell my office system administrator I post here all day long. Good solution Sherlock.




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	07-03-2001 20:49									#7
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They are not quite as irritating as that damn coffee shop thing that keeps popping up in the off topic.

	08-03-2001 02:44									#8
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Those damn things are back!!!! Isn't there some way to stop it?!!?

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	08-03-2001 02:55									#9
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Please please make them stop. I may visit the site less.

	08-03-2001 04:55									#10
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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 Alexander's Horse on 03-07-2001 01:15 AM</font>
Yeah right, and while I'm at it I'll just go and tell my office system administrator I post here all day long. Good solution Sherlock.

<img src=/forums/"/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>

The obvious solution, which you've obviously considered and rejected, or, more likely, probably, didn't even consider, or, more likely, in fact, isn't in your Duty Specifications, is to close the browser and do some work.



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	08-03-2001 05:04									#11
	Got spare money?

Mark, I thought we dealt with this last year? I thought it was taken care of. So what do we need to do to straighten this out again?

	08-03-2001 05:06									#12
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This is AWFUL! Man, what a horrible road for this site to take Please, make them stop!

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	08-03-2001 05:20									#13
	Suffering from ads?

I hope you are getting BIG BUCKS for those... Because they ARE REALLY ANNOYING!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

	08-03-2001 05:27									#14
	Browse Apolyton AD-FREE

I quite agree, they are constantly getting in my way, and they seem to be just about every advert. GET RID OF THE POP UPS BEFORE I SCREAM!!!

	08-03-2001 09:11									#15
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Get rid of that junk ad that keeps popping up please!

You're suppose to offer a forum where customers can gather together to share their knowledge and resources - NOT antagonize them with meaingless junk ads that pop up.

Ad banners are fine - get rid of pop ups. They are not worth the antagonism that they cause.

	08-03-2001 10:43									#16
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Please get rid of them. I would pay a swubscription instead of this crap...

Maybe there is a business model around trial free memberships and subscriptions afterwards...

	08-03-2001 12:09									#17
	Increase the size of your Attachments

as we have said already in the past, we dont have direct control in the ads.

on the specific ad, i believe that if you dont close it, it wont pop up on you again

and if you're using to any kind of program for more than just killing this pop up, all i can say is thank you for killing this site...

	08-03-2001 12:58									#18
	Enter the AD-FREE zone

ahh I misread your other post

you said if you DON'T close it it won't come back up again.

this is true.

BTW they seem to only come up when I hit reply, or edit post.

But multiple windows take up computer resources. My old computer had so little memory, it would slow to a crawl if you had 2 windows open. This is dicrimination against poor people who cannot afford 256 MG of RAM like I have now. I am filing a discrimination lawsuit against EBAY tomorrow.


<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Dissident (edited March 08, 2001).]</font>

	08-03-2001 19:18									#19
	Get a bigger avatar today!

Markos, the popups, seem too affect other windows (making them popup). This happens when I have the popup minimized or just in behind a different window. Seems worse even than the behavior of porn popups (D'oh!)

	08-03-2001 20:00									#20
	Got spare money?

What a bunch of grognards! You should not be privilaged to grumble like this until you have made at least one bayonet charge at the thin red line.
Agony of Agonies! Having to look a an ebay box on your task bar. Such oppression. A few extra seconds to load? Just a few milli grans of irritation. My time is billed at $300 an hour, 8 cents a second, & I can stand the wait. After veiwing this pathetic whinning about advertising on a free site, I shall hear no complaints about the privilages I can buy.
If you do not like the ads now just wait. In the near future many click banners will be replaced by large ads taking out a substantial fraction of the page.

:smiley for combining medium derision with mild contemp:

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	08-03-2001 21:04									#21
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

Markos, I'm confused -- WHO does make the decision then to place ads?

They do not appear on the Apolyton site by magic or by themselves without a person to place them there.

As for minimizing the pop-up ad to prevent it from overlapping the forum window everytime, that does NOT work!

	08-03-2001 21:22									#22
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

If we could keep discussion on this to one thread, that would help.

See <A HREF=/forums/"/forums/Forum20/HTML/001387.html">this thread</A> and <A HREF=/forums/"/forums/Forum20/HTML/001375.html">this one too</A>, re: my responses.

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	08-03-2001 23:57									#23
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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 Ming on 03-07-2001 07:20 PM</font>
I hope you are getting BIG BUCKS for those... Because they ARE REALLY ANNOYING!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
<img src=/forums/"/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>

That is more rrr's that Horse uses. Ming, do you wish to add MERCILESS TROLL to your accumulated positions here? And, how Can you object to advertising? Is this not a denial of the essence of your being.

	09-03-2001 00:23									#24
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I strongly support advertising! (but I'm a little biased since the industry does pay the mortgage as they say)
I would prefer to have advertising banners on these forums, then have to pay a fee to use the site.

However, I strongly object to ebay's pop up ads. If it was an "occasional" thing, you close it, and don't worry about it for a long time, that would be one thing. But you close the damn thing, and it pops right up again on the very next screen. While minimizing does provide "some" relief, it still screws things up when you are running other tasks.

I have sent a very polite email to UGO (as DanQ has suggested) explaining why these ads are so annoying, and actually chasing potential viewers of their advertising messages away.

Again, advertising has it's strengths and advantages, but this is not one of them If you want people to see your message and respond, you shouldn't piss them off or chase them away!

	09-03-2001 01:17									#25
	Inflate your Upload Space

The balls in your court, Mark/Dan.

Everyone else. . to block the ads until the situation is resolved, you may visit the following link for information.
http://accs-net.com/prox/

	09-03-2001 05:30									#26
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

<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 MrFun on 03-08-2001 11:04 AM</font>
Markos, I'm confused -- WHO does make the decision then to place ads?

They do not appear on the Apolyton site by magic or by themselves without a person to place them there.
<img src=/forums/"/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>one more time: we have hosting deal with gamestats. under this deal, gamestats handles our ad space. gamestats has sold our space to ugo. ugo chooses to display whatever ad they like

<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>As for minimizing the pop-up ad to prevent it from overlapping the forum window everytime, that does NOT work!
<img src=/forums/"/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>well, it works for me. to be accurate, i'm not minimizing it, i'm just leting it open

	09-03-2001 06:58									#27
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Thats what i think of these ****'in popups.

	09-03-2001 09:14									#28
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

Ok Markos - tell Ugo how irritating and annoying those meaningless pop up ads are to the visitors of Apolyton.

Tell Ugo how it antagonizes customers and that it would harm Apolyton through people who would stop visiting and using Apolyton because half the time, a pop up window comes up when you're navigating back and forth (in spite of what you suggested.

Tell Ugo to get rid of those pop ups!

	09-03-2001 09:59									#29
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

erm...I keep a pop-up window open, but another pops up anyway! So I end up with like 20 in the same place! ARGH!!!1

	09-03-2001 17:14									#30
	Inflate your Upload Space

Hmm; I think a few well-placed threads with easy-to-follow instructions on how to block adds and filter out popups would be "motivating" for the admins .