IGF Audience Award

[Saxon]

Shrapnel is paying for the bandwidth, they are paying the bulk of the costs for developing Dom III and they are taking the risks of making great games. If they want to advertise a bit on their own forums, it is their right. That they chose to do it in a non-invasive way that the users have a choice to ignore shows a lot of class.

Those of us who are forum members, may or may not have bought a game from them, and we do not pay for using the forums. It is our privilege to be using the boards. We should occasionally remember that and act with appropriate grace.

[NTJedi]

Gandalf Parker said:
Actually its a Shrapnels forum, that they provide for free for Dominions discussions. An occassional blurb about one of their games is a minor bother compared to the kinds of popup ads we could be getting.

But you know you always have an option to have a dominions forum if you want.

As mentioned earlier an occassional/temporary sticky is fine... however this sticky event expired
long ago. If I was Illwinter I wouldn't want sticky advertisements for other games on the forums for my games... especially since it wasn't placed on all forums only our Dominions2 forum, Shrapnel General forum and the SpaceEmpires_IV forum.

Feels wrong we are one of the few forums stuck with a junky advertisement sticky which expired long ago!

[Gandalf Parker]

heehee. Gee it was only placed in the high traffic forums.
And hasnt been replaced with a new notice.
I guess those are valid points