A bad idea

MichaelCooney · #1 November 26th, 2002, 04:14 PM

Let me jump in here and say that it's a popup to promote a Shrapnel product - it isn't a random, revenue generating, brightly flashing annoyance, designed to get you to buy butt-hair removal cream. All those ads were pulled a long, long time ago.

The feedback is good, but don't equate this with Shrapnel whoring itself out to the misguided marketters of the web. Tim just wants to make sure that people coming to the site are aware that he carries this excellent game.

Sniper · #2 November 26th, 2002, 09:10 PM

Sure

we all appreciate that it was a pop up for this company that we all love. And we agree that anything that may get revenue up is a good thing for Sharpnel and a good thing for us. But I feel the community see the pop up as a possible harbinger that Shrapnel may have to "Sell out".
But we do appreciate that it is there to increase sales.
Cheers

Fyron · #3 November 27th, 2002, 11:23 AM

Popup ads = Evil

What more need I say?

Regardless of what the ad is for, it is still evil. Any popups like that detract from the professionalism of a web site.

mlmbd · #4 November 27th, 2002, 08:56 PM

Mike Cooney, OK, I hope this doesn't get me banished. I understand and appreciate (as I am sure we ALL do) Tim and or Richard wanting to move a product, whatever it is. So why not just tweak the Front Page adding a really nice banner? You could put it between the http://www.shrapnelgames.com/images/...apnelhomeB.gif (Sorry no UBB images or HTML here) and Frame work just below it. That would put the product in a very prominent spot without annoying anyone. Well that my $1.00 worth($.02 (two cents) worth X 50).

mlmbd

capnq · #5 November 27th, 2002, 10:05 PM

mlmbd, when you've hung around these Boards longer, you'll realize you don't have to worry about being banished. Shrapnel has built up a really good community here, one that's remarkably patient and tolerant.

A person has to be mind-bogglingly obnoxious to get kicked from these Boards. Worse than pop-up ads, even.

This thread has drawn less traffic than I might have expected. We'll just have to wait and see how the bit of negative feedback here compares to the positive feedback from people who do click-through on the pop-ups.