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Kyle J Cardoza Reply #20 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 09, 2008, 07:44:11 PM
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You will note the bright red ad top left. It's for a "film" that "questions" whether "AIDS" is caused by "HIV". I approved it because you lot are smart enough to figure out that accepting their money doesn't equate to to agreement.

Someone please outbid them, or at least drive up the price, to funnel cash away from idiocy.
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Scix Reply #21 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 10, 2008, 08:27:00 AM
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As I say, I await funds to transfer. In a day or two, p'haps.

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sinic Reply #22 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 10, 2008, 09:17:04 AM
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Slack.
I can't determine if that red ad is offensive, grossly offensive or just plain stupid.

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The Last Lovers on Earth

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The title story begins with the outrageous satirical premise that the government declares the AIDS epidemic over because all gay men are dead. That is, until two gay men are found to be still alive in Cape May, New Jersey and all hell breaks loose as the media and the public accuse the government of covering up the truth. Everyone wants to know why these two men (Seth and Kyle) didn't do what the AIDS establishment, the celebrities and the activists urged them to do. Why did they refuse to wear red ribbons and cooperate with AIDS agenda? The whole world watches the world's leading talk show host (Larry) grill them with questions. In one of the great examples of sustained irony and uncompromising satire, the answers to those questions will make your head spin and have you laughing out loud. (And many will even be cheering their courage and independent-mindedness.)

And that's only one of the three thematically intertwined stories. The second story focuses on an very unlucky, unattractive, but good-hearted gay man (Eddie) who comes to New York in the 70s and finds only disappointment in the gay community because no one will sleep with him. Only when he mysteriously develops what doctors think is "AIDS" does he receive the love and attention he craves.

The third story uses a man's obsession with clowns to explore the disturbing politics of the gay community's enthusiastic cooperation with an AIDS agenda that was ultimately against its own best interest.

In storybook fashion, this literary, intellectually stimulating film goes back and forth between all three stories which come together in the last fifteen minutes with one of the most profound and breathtaking visions of what the AIDS epidemic has been and what it could be in the future.

Unfortunately I can't tease out what they're claiming the "real" cause of AIDS is.

Kyle, we know you certainly wouldn't believe in something like that, but what would someone new coming to the site think?  If you're wanting to grow the site I don't think ads like that help.
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Kyle J Cardoza Reply #23 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 10, 2008, 09:22:28 AM
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You're surrounded by armed bastards!
But if it doesn't advertise, how will we know to ridicule it?
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Aleric Reply #24 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 11, 2008, 01:41:06 AM
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Wonderful argument, that.

Also, where do I send paypal donations to... I have some extra money (since the bank screwed over one of my plans) so I figure I'll donate a bit to the cause.
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Diesa Reply #25 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 11, 2008, 02:15:48 AM
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I'd buy a spot, but I don't have anything to advertise. $20 for a blank space?
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Kyle J Cardoza Reply #26 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 11, 2008, 09:22:34 AM
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You're surrounded by armed bastards!
Quote from: Aleric on February 11, 2008, 01:41:06 AM
Wonderful argument, that.

Also, where do I send paypal donations to... I have some extra money (since the bank screwed over one of my plans) so I figure I'll donate a bit to the cause.

amanda.zuke@gmail.com is the address to which donations should be sent.

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I'd buy a spot, but I don't have anything to advertise. $20 for a blank space?

Is that an offer? 'cause I'd accept. Wink
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sinic Reply #27 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 11, 2008, 01:02:18 PM
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Slack.
How does PW rank the sites for where to put your ads?  Do we need to have more click throughs or is number of page views for the ads simply enough?  Just wondering since if we have a more "popular" site you should be able to draw in ads for bigger things which would be willing to lay out more sweet moolah.
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Kyle J Cardoza Reply #28 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 11, 2008, 01:31:09 PM
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You're surrounded by armed bastards!
Clicks, views, bid history, etc. All the info is available.
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Aleric Reply #29 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 11, 2008, 05:45:05 PM
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I hunger.
Thanks for the addy.  It's away.
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Kyle J Cardoza Reply #30 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 11, 2008, 07:00:43 PM
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You're surrounded by armed bastards!
Thanks!
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sinic Reply #31 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 11, 2008, 07:18:27 PM
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Slack.
Looking at the site's info seems they track pageviews, unique viewers and the number of clicks per dollar spent on the banner (ours is around 1 right now) actually, turns out CPD is "cost per day" and just measures the direct cost of the ad.  It says we've had about 7k pageviews today with about 2.5k uniques.  Top publisher on the site is getting 500k hits a day off 100-200k unique and an click value of around 100 they actually had a banner that must've sold for $100 for a day!  Since I don't think we can compete (yet) with the uniques we should probably try to focus on increasing the click value of ads.

As such I'd suggest people just give each banner a single click at some point during the day.  If we can drive up the click value then we can better position the forum to catch larger ads.

Just a thought.

Edit to Add:  Okay.  I was a bit confused.  Cleared it up now.  They evidently don't count number of click-throughs, only the number of "impressions" each ad makes.  Clicking probably wouldn't hurt, but it doesn't actually appear to be part of their metrics (at least not that I could find).
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machiavelli33 Reply #32 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 12, 2008, 01:11:20 AM
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Not your typical chinaman.
I'll throw in a paypal fiver for now.   

If I had something worth advertising, you know I'd be all over it.
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Zahnnie Reply #33 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 12, 2008, 02:32:11 PM
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I *heart* pie (sexily).
You could advertise, um, shirtless pics. And art gallery stuff? Do you have a deviantart that you could sell prints throught?
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NoxEquites Reply #34 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 12, 2008, 03:20:40 PM
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I make shiny things, you need them.
If I had a site for my chain mail I'd love to advertise. Unfortunately that requires web space and the skilled labor of a web designer.
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sinic Reply #35 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 12, 2008, 03:27:33 PM
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Slack.
Too bad we don't have any of those around here.

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Kyle J Cardoza Reply #36 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 12, 2008, 03:32:02 PM
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Quote from: NoxEquites on February 12, 2008, 03:20:40 PM
If I had a site for my chain mail I'd love to advertise. Unfortunately that requires web space and the skilled labor of a web designer.

Quote from: sinic on February 12, 2008, 03:27:33 PM
Too bad we don't have any of those around here.

Yes, quite unfortunate, isn't it?
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NoxEquites Reply #37 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 12, 2008, 04:37:25 PM
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Well I'm willing to spend money I don't have for it but I don't know what it would cost.
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Kyle J Cardoza Reply #38 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 12, 2008, 04:56:37 PM
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Quote from: NoxEquites on February 12, 2008, 04:37:25 PM
Well I'm willing to spend money I don't have for it but I don't know what it would cost.

Talk to choctaw about webspace. As for web design, we could work something out, I'm sure.
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Zahnnie Reply #39 in Project Wonderful — Posted February 13, 2008, 10:31:15 AM
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I *heart* pie (sexily).
Haha I love the current Tales of