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  1. 15-Nov-2010 #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by ProfessorChaos View Post
    these pop-out ads are annoying as hell!

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  2. 15-Nov-2010 #17
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    Quote Originally Posted by deadpunk View Post
    Neil, are you aware the ad covers dropdown boxes? IE: when I click on NOTIFICATIONS, the ad covers my inbox link.
    That's annoying! Don't happen in FireFox!?

    The alternative is to:-
    a) Move the advert to the far left. But that risks moving over when going for the "Back" icon on the browser?
    b) Moving the advert above everything, but that would look aweful.
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Does it actually matter if it pops up when you're going for the Back button, though? I mean, if you're leaving the page anyway, who cares if it's expanded for two or three seconds?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mitchified View Post
    Does it actually matter if it pops up when you're going for the Back button, though? I mean, if you're leaving the page anyway, who cares if it's expanded for two or three seconds?
    OK! It's left justified now. BTH, for those folks with smaller monitors, LEFT, RIGHT, CENTER, the advert will be pretty much in the same place!? And I suspect it is the people with smaller monitors who it causes the greatest problem too!?
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    The ads aren't so bad. Not as bad as the "optional" reason for editing, anyway....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    OK! It's left justified now. BTH, for those folks with smaller monitors, LEFT, RIGHT, CENTER, the advert will be pretty much in the same place!? And I suspect it is the people with smaller monitors who it causes the greatest problem too!?
    Yep. My laptop is a mini and if you had not mentioned the move, I wouldn't have noticed.

    The adverts are so insignificant that I barely notice them, which is probably why I'm forever scrolling over the expanding ones My only gripe with them has always been that my dropdown boxes go under them (this is probably also due to my screen size). However, since I'm able to access all of those features from my profile anyway, its more of a minor nuisance than an actual issue.

    Wouldn't a lot of these issues be avoided by moving the Forum / Arcade / Whats New links to where the search box is, as opposed to moving the advert? I feel most users have the same issue I do: Hit the Forum link when wanting out of a thread or section and moving cursor over to the scroll bar as the page reloads. Time it wrong or go to high and BAM! you hit the advert. Perhaps if the main links were to the right (and closer to the scroll bar), so many accidental hits would be avoided?
    Last edited by deadpunk; 16-Nov-2010 at 02:43 PM. Reason: further thought
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