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Re: Poll votes
Jerry,
I, for one, would put up with pop up ads, if it meant keeping the site fee free.
I say that because I don't want to face another, "How much will it cost in six months?" scenario, like gas prices or food. I think that kind of a thing is a big turnoff to fun.
I realize it costs to host a forum and website like this. I just hope you can find an advertising method that pays, and yet is less obtrusive.
In my first post, I suggested you visit Westernbass.com and look at their site as a model of one way a site is setup and run without fees.
On their forum pages, they have an advertising banner at the top of the age which loads automatically, with direct links to the advertisers.
Every time someone on the forum clicks on an advertiser's link from the forum, the site gets credit. I don't know exactly how it works. Like Jack the Ripper said when they asked him how many women he'd killed, "How do I know? I'm a murderer, not an accountant!".
Well, I'm a carpenter, not an internet expert, and I don't have a clue. But I do know the method Western Bass uses seems to be working.
I think Nathan might know some of the people involved, since he has a "west coast presence", and is well known and highly regarded out here.
I say this because I want your site to succeed, pay for itself so you don't have to come out of pocket, and still be a fee-free site, which I think will severely limit it, and may eventually doom it.
I've learned, over 60+ years, that I'm pretty average in how I think, so I'm guessing my view of pay-to-play sites is pretty common.
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