Added a feature for posting thanks for helpful posts

[SVOboy]

Yes, mentally ignoring happens after you visit a site like 5 times.

Basically, we get paid a set rate per thousand impressions, which isn't very good. Despite being a pretty well-trafficked site, we don't have a million ads and don't make much money. Darin and I really spend lots of time on it, and we'd like to have it make the money of a full time job so we can continue to treat it like that without having to work 80 hours a week with secondary jobs to pay the bills, but it's hard! It would be nice not to have things break at 1am and work normal hours too, but now I'm just whining!

[Christ]

So does "impression" refer to the page with the ad being seen?

That's the only way I can view it in my head... I don't really see how they'd know if someone saw the ad or not, unless there is like a trackback code in the pages we're visiting, or it's based on cookies or whatnot.

I guess I'd rather you not explain it, it might bring up a security issue in my head that I would then have to address imperatively and promptly on my own system, and I'd rather not have to play with Vista anymore. I hate this OS, but it's wifey's computer.

So I guess my question is: If I spam reload on a page, will that make more "impressions" for the sponsoring ad?

[SVOboy]

Yes, spam reloading would do that, but it's not necessarily helpful because most ads have a certain limit for how often they show up for a certain area/unique user/etc.

[Christ]

*shrug* won't write that script then... just trying to help :evil:

[SVOboy]

Yeah, fraud is no good

[cfg83]

Christ -

Originally Posted by Christ

Why would someone be opposed to going fullscreen? That intrigues me, other than to save that space for ad revenue.

I think it's a lowest-common-denominator issue. Today the "minimum" resolution is probably 1024*768, so 800x600 will always fit inside that. Also, for the recent super-mini laptops (webtops?!?), 800x480 can be the maximum resolution (like the 7" ASES Eee PC). Soooooooo, Ecomodder is 800 pixels wide.

That's my theory,

CarloSW2

[Christ]

That makes sense, but isn't there a tidbit in coding about "resize for screen resolution"?

I thought I saw something about that in HTML once upon a time, a piece of script or code that would (as the page loaded) check resolution and adjust it's width and height to compensate for it. Maybe it was a XML thing for Explorer, though, I don't remember.

EDIT: My mysterious friend Jay says it's a Java script, but might be able to be done in PHP as well, not sure about other setups, including forum software and BB's.

[Piwoslaw]

Haha, I usually use an old version of Linux which blocks (or fails to load) lots of stuff, even when Flashblock, Adblock and RIP are disabled. For example, it often doesn't show pictures in posts (which pi$$es me off, since I have to find the photo's url in the page source), but it probably blocks more ads than I know about. I've been meaning to upgrade for the second year now, but I'm so lazy and so used to what I have, and have so much junk on the disk that I should clean up first...

I wonder if those ad blocking gizmos don't load the ads, or load them and hide them? In the second case the server side shouldn't notice that the ad is blocked, unless there is feedback.

Originally Posted by SVOboy

Lots of people are always posting really helpful/thoughtful/useful things, so I decided to add a little thumbup feature for the site! Let me know if you love it/hate it

I've been waiting for this for sooooooo looooong. On a DIY site like EcoModder.com this is a MUST!!! Thanky thanky thanky

Now I have to go through all of the helpful threads I've almost memorized and add some thanks.

[SVOboy]

The way the programs work is that they don't load the blocked content at all, so it does speed things up that way. Just like the no script extension for FF does by just not running any scripts (including ads)

[Piwoslaw]

I made an exception for EcoModder.com in AdBlock Plus and turns out I have been missing out on ads :/ With the new income Darin will probably be on the Bahamas by this time next year