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Fodor's--Please get rid of banners Date: 09/21/2002, 09:31 am Message: I get enough banner's throughout the fodor.com site please make this are BANNER FREE. They are just an annoyance. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author: IHate ([email protected]) Date: 09/21/2002, 09:35 am Message: write to [email protected] and tell them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author: None ([email protected]) Date: 09/21/2002, 09:42 am Message: Faith Quit telling businesses how to run their business. If you don't like the way they run their business then take your business elsewhere. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author: xx ([email protected]) Date: 09/21/2002, 10:06 am Message: Will you guys get real? Fodors is not a non-profit. You're getting something for nothing. Grow up. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author: Just ([email protected]) Date: 09/21/2002, 11:13 am Message: In the overall scheme of life, are the banners in this forum really that important? Get over it! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author: Chill ([email protected]) Date: 09/21/2002, 11:25 am Message: If you scroll up JUST a LITTLE bit, the banner ad is hidden. Not a huge price to pay for all the info and assistance one gets from Fodor's Forums. Also, you never know when one of those ads might be for something you need, or have been looking for. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author: just my opinion ([email protected]) Date: 09/21/2002, 11:28 am Message: this is a FREE forum. You don't like the banners, take it someplace else. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author: xxx ([email protected]) Date: 09/21/2002, 11:34 am Message: People who want the services of a free website without advertisements are like people who want government services but then whine about paying taxes. I personally happen to feel that most ads are annoying to consumers (on the internet, that is; some clever ones on television or in print can be very entertaining) but, on the other hand, they must draw customers or businesses wouldn't continue to use them as a marketing tool. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author: Leslie ([email protected]) Date: 09/21/2002, 11:51 am Message: Actually, the banners that I have seen are pretty innocuous. You'll never see the one at the bottom of the screen if you don't scroll all the way down the page. And the one at the top disappears very quickly after you've scrolled passed the first message. As long as there aren't pop-up ads opening all over my screen, I don't have a problem with the advertising. Besides the advertising pays for us not having to pay membership fees. And sometimes the advertising is worthwhile. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author: Patrick ([email protected]) Date: 09/21/2002, 12:33 pm Message: I have no idea what banners you people are talking about. Last year I downloaded a free pop-up stopper which works great. Perhaps that also eliminates the banners?

The banners are OK with me. Especially since they don't take long to load. They could have been a lot more annoying than this. Impressive how the editors have just "merged" this thread (starting with Faith's message) with the one from yesterday!!

From what little I have seen so far, I have no objection to this very appropriate effort to keep this site free and as little burdensome, financially, to our hosts as possible. Best wishes, Rex

I just tried to post a reply and went away for a long time and it still was not posted. The only ad I have seen is for Expedia and I got a good price on some tickets from them a few weeks ago. Let's see how long this takes to post.

It posted zip zip so I guess I spoke too soon.

I thought, with all the negative feedback on the ads, I should add my vote that I don't mind the ads, and if banner ads helps Fodors keep this site free, I'm all for them. Sure, I would prefer the site without them, but don't particularly mind them (the ones they've used so far aren't the really annoying ones with so much movement it really distracts from the rest of the page).

Pop up killers don't eliminate banner ads. But I agree, let Fodors put the banners on. It gets revenue and they are simple to ignore.

OK - since the banner ads are here maybe it's time to come back! They are certainly much less obtrusive than I thought they would be. There is a danger with some sites - and, without being in any way prejudiced, mainly US-based sites - that the adverts can overpower the site itself. This in turn slows or even stops loading on a slow connection (yes, most of us here in the UK still have crunchy old 56K modems) and will stop people looking at the site. What's here isn't too bad, though. If it stays like this I might just be able to learn to live with it!

advertising on the forum Date: 09/23/2002, 03:13 am Message: did you notice that fodors has added ads to this forum? shame shame. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author: Joe Black ([email protected]) Date: 09/23/2002, 03:21 am Message: Hi Richardab, i just topped an existing thread about the advertising for you - Fodors did at least warn us ahead of time (see teh link at the top titled 'A heads up from Fodors.com...'). Its actually not as bad as I feared it would be - I just hope this is the extent of it going forward. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author: blind ([email protected]) Date: 09/23/2002, 03:21 am Message: No, I didn't notice. Where are they?

The links now gone but this address still works - http://www.fodors.com/forums/editors.html

I am happy that a site like travel talk still exists. As long as there are no pop up's, ads are fine by me. If pop ups ever occur in the future I'm out of here.

Pop ups drive me insane too (please never use them Fodors!! :-)) A lot of my other favourite sites use them now & I just don't go to those sites as much as a result & I just get p_ssed off. Soemone mentioned some software download that prevents them opening up 0 anyone know a site to get that?