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AusGAF 3.0 - Double the price, region locked and refused classification
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No more sexual advice threads? How does that make any sense, they were the funniest part of OT.jambo said:
Edit: Since that thread is locked, can anyone explain why an advertiser cares if the ad shows up on a forum that they may not consider family friendly? And why Google can't just whitelist those ads and sites rather than clamping on everybody?
More I think about it the less sense this makes. It basically mandates any site that wants to use adsense has to be 'family friendly' as defined by some other mob?
Yeah, had to figure that was going to happen at some point.
Google Ads don't run on any of my "Henry The Sexually Perverted Chocolate Bar" pages, and I'm worried they're going to throw down the ban hammer at some point if those pages get more popular than other ones across the site. I'd like to rename them, but "Henry The Chocolate Bar" doesn't have the same ring to it.
Google Ads don't run on any of my "Henry The Sexually Perverted Chocolate Bar" pages, and I'm worried they're going to throw down the ban hammer at some point if those pages get more popular than other ones across the site. I'd like to rename them, but "Henry The Chocolate Bar" doesn't have the same ring to it.
Two days left to submit in favour of R18 and against the internet filter: http://www.alrc.gov.au/inquiries/classification/respond-issues-papers
Do it.
Do it.
I'd much rather pay a monthly or yearly sub fee than have an ad-supported, censored forum.
They've already started deleting threads, like the fap contest thread and the post hot men/women threads. Amir0x also said they will probably close all of the homebrew threads as well as threads discussing illegal drugs, i.e. marijuana threads and eccy threads.
They've already started deleting threads, like the fap contest thread and the post hot men/women threads. Amir0x also said they will probably close all of the homebrew threads as well as threads discussing illegal drugs, i.e. marijuana threads and eccy threads.
http://www.heathenscripture.com/you-shut-your-goddamn-carbon-taxin-mouth/
The rubbish in the OT does not make GAF unique. "Violent content" with regards to screenshots of games etc is a much bigger issue.Choc said:
For fucks sake...jambo said:
Love that link, disagree with the second part a bit. It doesn't make GAF unique, but it certainly makes it one of the few places you can discuss topics with a modicum of civility that would degenerate on every other forum I've been too. The screenshot issue is legitimate though.Fredescu said:
Marshmellow
Member
Fredescu said:
Awesome read. ahha. also laughed at this
"now solar energy is just a theory too. Like gravity, or Adelaide"
Fredescu said:
That's what I meant. And I know that Reddit and SA have forums for it, but I've been on NeoGAF for 2~ years now. I know the members, I know the atmosphere, I know the vibe =P. I don't want to have to go somewhere else for that all of a sudden and have a cut down, censored OT area.
DualShadow
Member
jambo said:
Yeah I saw this, really gonna change GAF.
Edit: Shit should have refreshed first, point still stands though.
I often wonder just how much the costs could be and why they couldn't be subsidized by users. If they ran it on a similar model to how (I think) SA works (can read but can't post unless you're a paid member) surely they'd have enough money to pay for traffic and hosting costs.
Reposting from another thread:
What I want clarified is whether discussion = promotion, since that seems to be the key wording in the Adsense rules. If it does, then OT is dead. No alcohol, no prescription drugs, no smoking, no herbals, no darwin award stories, no youtube links (lol, the irony), no sexual advice, which basically means no sex discussion at all. The violence clause would seem to make many screenshots problematic too.
If discussion does not equate to promotion, then it seems that almost everything we had before was fine anyway...
What I want clarified is whether discussion = promotion, since that seems to be the key wording in the Adsense rules. If it does, then OT is dead. No alcohol, no prescription drugs, no smoking, no herbals, no darwin award stories, no youtube links (lol, the irony), no sexual advice, which basically means no sex discussion at all. The violence clause would seem to make many screenshots problematic too.
If discussion does not equate to promotion, then it seems that almost everything we had before was fine anyway...
Fredescu said:
Amazing.
PS> The OT stuff is kinda meh/annoying/whatever, but I don't particularly read too many of the threads anyway, it is also typical of publicly viewable forums. Why be surprised?
PPS> I am over this week, need it to be Friday asap.
PPPS> Thanks to Fred+other who mentioned Mark of Cain. Been a long time.
codswallop
Member
So where will AusGAF end up when the sh... [oh dear I'm not allowed to swear any more] hits the fan?jambo said:
pieatorium
Member
How will this affect the Bulletstorm OT! think of the children.
DualShadow
Member
Shaneus said:
Wouldn't there still be ads on the pages if someone viewed them?
codswallop
Member
Google would still crawl over them.Shaneus said:
A robots.txt wouldn't even work either, because the three are subforums, not completely separate ones. If they were completely separate ones with different URLs, you could use a robots.txt to stop Google from crawling.
Marshmellow
Member
Dead Man said:
I would tend to agree here. It would ruin it for me if they did a dumb offshoot story or something that wasn't well thought out.
On this note, Puss in Boots......1) why did he need his own movie? 2) if its bad its going to ruin my image of his presence in shrek.
Marshmellow
Member
jambo said:
Cars is the second Pixar film, after Toy Story, to have a sequel. John Lasseter, the director of the film, said that he was convinced of the sequel's story while traveling around the world promoting the first film. He said:
I kept looking out thinking, 'What would Mater do in this situation, you know?' I could imagine him driving around on the wrong side of the road in the UK, going around in big, giant traveling circles in Paris, on the autobahn in Germany, dealing with the motor scooters in Italy, trying to figure out road signs in Japan.
Cars 2 was originally scheduled for a summer 2012 release, but Pixar moved the release up by a year.
EDIT: Now you have someone to hate Jambo
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Fucking wow at our property manager. A month ago, we were told the rent was going up by $40 (!!) a month. After heaps of stress, we lost a housemate and finally came to the conclusion that we'd have to move out.
Skip forward to today, I got a phone call directly from our landlord asking us why we were moving out. She said she was disappointed because we looked after the place and the neighbors love us. Apparently she had only suggested a typical 5% increase, and was AND IS happy to leave the rent at the current price if it was between that and us moving out. We collectively flipped our shit, because we had handed in our 28 days notice.
Needless to say, we got a call from our awful property manager. No price increase. I gave her an earful, and I expect the landlord did too. She had outright lied to us on multiple occasions about how much the rent would be, and the typical "I'll try and get the landlord to go lower but. Wouldn't count on it" routine.
You know, I really hate it when so called professionals force me to be the bad guy. I project professionalism and expect to get it back in return. When you have to be the bad guy and threaten people to get any respect or to just get someone to do what they're paid to do, there is something wrong with the system.
We lost so much sleep over this. I'm still fuming, even though I'm ridiculously relieved.
Skip forward to today, I got a phone call directly from our landlord asking us why we were moving out. She said she was disappointed because we looked after the place and the neighbors love us. Apparently she had only suggested a typical 5% increase, and was AND IS happy to leave the rent at the current price if it was between that and us moving out. We collectively flipped our shit, because we had handed in our 28 days notice.
Needless to say, we got a call from our awful property manager. No price increase. I gave her an earful, and I expect the landlord did too. She had outright lied to us on multiple occasions about how much the rent would be, and the typical "I'll try and get the landlord to go lower but. Wouldn't count on it" routine.
You know, I really hate it when so called professionals force me to be the bad guy. I project professionalism and expect to get it back in return. When you have to be the bad guy and threaten people to get any respect or to just get someone to do what they're paid to do, there is something wrong with the system.
We lost so much sleep over this. I'm still fuming, even though I'm ridiculously relieved.
Marshmellow
Member
legend166 said:
Why the choices on CPU and Video card legend?
Running to a budget or just not looking at the higher end?
Couldn't they just modify the google ads or are you unable to do that? Make it so only 10 specific ones are allowed to be shown on X website or something?
It seems a little drastic. GAF was and is enjoyable because of how open it can be, Very little, if anything is filtered.
If they do go ahead of it then I have to wonder how many people will actually stick around. Forcing it to be "dumbed" down (maybe it's not that) wouldn't promote the growth of the site.
Will wait and see what evil does regarding the situations. I think a lot of people would be happy to just donate to get rid of the ads but i'm sure the ads bring in some excess $$$ over the running costs, Would be hard to get rid of that.
It seems a little drastic. GAF was and is enjoyable because of how open it can be, Very little, if anything is filtered.
If they do go ahead of it then I have to wonder how many people will actually stick around. Forcing it to be "dumbed" down (maybe it's not that) wouldn't promote the growth of the site.
Will wait and see what evil does regarding the situations. I think a lot of people would be happy to just donate to get rid of the ads but i'm sure the ads bring in some excess $$$ over the running costs, Would be hard to get rid of that.
Marshmellow
Member
Fredescu said:
Questioning them because the i7 960 is like 50 bucks more and of course depending on what games he plays, will last him alot longer and obviously provide better performance in the future
Also personally i would go for ATI. So far i have been nvidia but my mates always get ATI and i always seem to be outdone, also pricing for nvidia is crap imo.
