I am trying to guage the interest of the board members in making donations to LBT to avoid ads being placed on the board.

The site has become excruciating slow since the arrival of the ads. It takes 20 seconds to go from one page to another and sometimes a couple of minutes to do a search or to post a message. The presence of the ads doesn't bother me but the decreased speed (and thus decreased functionality) does.

The site has become excruciating slow since the arrival of the ads. It takes 20 seconds to go from one page to another and sometimes a couple of minutes to do a search or to post a message. The presence of the ads doesn't bother me but the decreased speed (and thus decreased functionality) does.

Yeah, it took about 5 minutes for the main page to load for me, and I use cable internet.

The Google ads don't bother me. (They're easily ignored, lol!) I just don't want the type of obnoxious advertising like OH has.

I would have to answer no to your poll, because I don't mind ad placement at all. So I would not donate to avoid ad placement. But that does not necessarily mean that I would never be willing to donate to LBT.

The site has become excruciating slow since the arrival of the ads. It takes 20 seconds to go from one page to another and sometimes a couple of minutes to do a search or to post a message. The presence of the ads doesn't bother me but the decreased speed (and thus decreased functionality) does.

That's a point I had not considered. The site is definitely much slower now. That is a bit of an issue for me too.

Yeah, it took about 5 minutes for the main page to load for me, and I use cable internet.

The Google ads don't bother me. (They're easily ignored, lol!) I just don't want the type of obnoxious advertising like OH has.

I have a T1 connection and it's still excruciatingly slow. Damn typos.

I would have to answer no to your poll, because I don't mind ad placement at all. So I would not donate to avoid ad placement. But that does not necessarily mean that I would never be willing to donate to LBT.

I agree with that.

I would donate if keeping the ads was going to somehow make changes to the site.

I answered no because at this point the ads do not have a significant enough negative impact on my visits here. However, I enjoy this site and if the ads did get the point where they piss me off I would be willing to donate.

Carol

I would donate if keeping the ads was going to somehow make changes to the site.

Yeah, that's part of my position, also. I don't like the prospect of rules changing to make advertisers happy.

To me, OH is a good (or bad, whichever way you want to look at it) example of that. To me, they are about making money, so they don't allow anything to disrupt that. They want to keep the maximum amount of people on the site, which is in turn good for their advertisers (resulting in OH making more money through ads), so they let stupid stuff happen. Take their censorship rules, for example. They let their members delete entire threads and refuse other members the right to post in "their" threads. If there is a post in a thread that the thread-starter doesn't like or agree with, the moderators have to remove it if they are asked.

what ads? I love Firefox :heh:

What I am finding to be really annoying is when I post the page that comes up thanking me for posting and telling me I am being redirected to my post. That just bugs the bejeebers out of me!

hi

the ads dont bother me but the slow speed does so i said i would pay to get rid of them....

Hey, The ads also don't phase me. I just ignore them here like I do everywhere else.

Susannah

Is the site still painfully slow today ? By the way....this site speed has nothing to do with the ads.

Even if we do get full-fledged ads, like the ones on OH, I would still like to donate to LBT to help manage costs. It kind of bothers me that we just sit around and talk on this site while Alex foots the bill for it (and puts up with us).

Is the site still painfully slow today ? By the way....this site speed has nothing to do with the ads.

I've only been on for a few minutes today, but it seems to be much better, so far.