NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner I'm placing an ad on a few pages to help cover costs http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=24&threadid=172456 2017-10-27T16:09:27 -05.00 Dain 69
My opinion: plaster that mf across the top of the forum pages and make the money you need to keep NA open. (as long as they don't do what Ferris said) Or stick it in the corner where Ted Nindo used to be. You've always taken the cost of NA in the pooper, and you deserve to make a little money for maintaining something like this.

Thanks for the courtesy note, but do what you gotta do. ]]> I'm placing an ad on a few pages to help cover costs http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=24&threadid=172456 2017-10-02T08:38:51 -05.00 Dain 69 I'm placing an ad on a few pages to help cover costs http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=24&threadid=172456 2017-05-09T09:50:12 -05.00 Dain 69 Originally posted by: Dain
 
Originally posted by: zfleming54

Everything online has ads or clickbait articles. You have to do what you have to do...
They're only on the game pages right now:

http://nintendoage.com/index.cfm?...

 
Nice, busting out the SE page.  I think we should have anothe rally for Pateron.  Maybe adjust the Pateron icons of those who contributed for a lenght of time (similar to the server icon).  
  ]]> I'm placing an ad on a few pages to help cover costs http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=24&threadid=172456 2017-03-30T19:00:45 -05.00 Dain 69 I'm placing an ad on a few pages to help cover costs http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=24&threadid=172456 2017-03-30T17:24:46 -05.00 Dain 69 I'm placing an ad on a few pages to help cover costs http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=24&threadid=172456 2017-03-30T14:42:26 -05.00 Dain 69
I run script blockers as well as an ad blocker on my pc browsers. If I allow the ad website to run in my script blocker, its global. I can't just whitelist all scripts to run on this page in NoScript, at least that I have ever found. There are many reason I run these, but mostly it saves your bacon if you Google searching and hit a site that has been infected. Another is it kills paywalls on news sites. I can read as many articles I want per month. ]]> I'm placing an ad on a few pages to help cover costs http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=24&threadid=172456 2017-03-30T12:44:52 -05.00 Dain 69
Here's hoping you can actually make some profit off the deal and keep on improving NA. ]]> I'm placing an ad on a few pages to help cover costs http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=24&threadid=172456 2017-03-30T11:50:11 -05.00 Dain 69 I'm placing an ad on a few pages to help cover costs http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=24&threadid=172456 2017-03-29T21:15:39 -05.00 Dain 69 I'm placing an ad on a few pages to help cover costs http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=24&threadid=172456 2017-03-29T09:52:32 -05.00 Dain 69
Regarding the comments about Patreon - people make some very good points about not being aware of it and it being a great way to donate - all of which are very valid. And the Patreon is helping and the subscribers are absolutely appreciated.

The challenge is, we could make a big Patreon push or donation drive and get up to the monthly goal or have some reserve funds, and then in a few months time or a year, subscriptions may dwindle and another push would need to be made, etc etc etc. The benefit of ad-revenue complementing donations (not replacing them), is that they are more passive in nature and can help to supplement funds without the need for continually asking for money or reminding people of the Patreon, etc. The issue of raising funds to maintain the site is something Dain has been managing for years and has a lot of experience with. As he stated, he has put a lot of time and thought into managing all of this and there are long-term reasons for needing to explore this route as opposed to just quickly raising funds for the short-term. Additionally, Dain has very selflessly tried to make this place not about him and the need for funds, and I believe does not want a heavy focus on asking for money up around the site at all times, despite it potentially increasing donations.

I'm not trying to discount or ignore people's suggestions, but just trying to explain that there are many reasons for this, some of which involve the amount of time and work involved with requesting funds. This is a way to supplement revenue with significantly less work and minimal impact, and doesn't require people to spend their own personal funds. I think it is a great balance. ]]>