ABP can't block inline JS.

I came up with a way to cleanly bypass this in Firefox with JavaScript (not yet implemented), but not Chrome yet. Does anyone know how to detect whether ABP blocked a particular element in Chrome using JavaScript?


Too many people would be driven away from the forum if I did that.

I actually don't care about the ads that much. The forum's income is much higher than necessary for its survival, and the ads probably aren't necessary for executing the forum's mission (though they help). But:
- If we're selling ads, I want them to be as effective as possible (without being annoying).
- I want the ad impression stats to be accurate.
- I'm annoyed that some people seem to think that all websites should just silently "take it" when their ads are blocked, or seek permission from the ABP organization if they want to keep displaying ads. I'm not going to do that. If EasyList wants to block the forum's ads, they're going to have to work for it.
- I'm now very irritated that EasyList maintainers fucked up the forum just to block a few unobtrusive links.

The Adblock Plus EasyList maintainers couldn't block the forum's ads, so they just blocked the links in the ads everywhere on the forum. So that's why you might see posts censored like this:




There's nothing I can change in the forum's HTML to stop this. This isn't a side-effect of my anti-ABP code. If you don't want posts censored, you need to disable ABP (or just these filters) on bitcointalk.org. You can complain about it here.

From this round forward, hero members, Donators, VIPs, and moderators will have the option of disabling ads. People who don't see ads due to this will obviously not count toward the number of impressions. This option is buried in the profile settings, so I don't expect this to affect impression stats or ad efficacy significantly, but I'll guarantee at least 420,000 impressions per slot for this round.

I'll add an option next week allowing hero members, Donators, and VIPs to disable advertisements.

Possible, but do they really bother you that much? I read the forum more than most, and I hardly notice the ads. I'm afraid that if I give people the option, many people will hide ads even when they don't really care whether they see ads or not, just because they can.

member established_ignores raw_percentage posts adjusted_percentage

smoothie 131 .05331 7539 .04758
zyk 113 .04599 407 .04606
ElectricMucus 109 .04436 5088 .04062
MPOE-PR 86 .03500 3472 .03258
Come-from-Beyond 86 .03500 1762 .03397
wopwop 77 .03133 496 .03134
bulanula 74 .03011 2956 .02811
subSTRATA 73 .02971 29 .03009
Atlas 71 .02889 934 .02854
Jaroslaw 66 .02686 344 .02698
bonker 65 .02645 577 .02639
MysteryMiner 64 .02604 1311 .02538
sublime5447 63 .02564 849 .02535
Matthew N. Wright 61 .02482 5839 .02048
lucif 60 .02442 1753 .02340
ChartBuddy 58 .02360 523 .02358
Maria 56 .02279 407 .02286
nkspace 55 .02238 188 .02263
Rarity 52 .02116 814 .02090
cunicula 52 .02116 1831 .02008
becoin 51 .02075 712 .02058
Micon 50 .02035 1069 .01988
iCEBREAKER 48 .01953 1050 .01908
NEO2012 47 .01912 128 .01943
MeSarah 46 .01872 159 .01899
mai77 45 .01831 418 .01838
Nemesis 42 .01709 593 .01701
Simran 42 .01709 573 .01703
NikolaTesla 41 .01668 346 .01681
meangreen 41 .01668 134 .01698
bitlane 40 .01628 2334 .01478
fourkey2001 40 .01628 144 .01656
Rob E 38 .01546 269 .01565
1nject0r 38 .01546 52 .01583

PGP messages contain a timestamp.

It's unlikely that BFL will ever get scammer tags for the ASICs because it's not at all clear what a preorder actually entails. I doubt that the preorder agreement (if there is one) specifies exact deadlines or specifications. I think that they'd avoid a scammer tag if they delivered some somewhat-decent mining device or gave USD-denominated refunds within a year.

The bet is another matter. I haven't looked into it yet.

I said previously that I would consider not accepting their advertising if they didn't make much progress within a few weeks. They have made progress. Several people received devices.

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That change happened a long time ago.
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Extended to PMs and many other boards (Trading discussion and subsections, Mining and subsections, Newbies, alt cryptocurrencies, and some local sections).

Let's see 'em block this. There's now a random number of invisible "posts" before and after the ad, and they're all (I think) indistinguishable from real posts if you're limited to just CSS selectors. Hopefully the filter maintainers aren't careless or they'll end up blocking random posts.

Nah, then I'd have to worry constantly about keeping the email service working.

One person in your trust network can increase the third number to infinity (maybe literally). The fourth number in parenthesis can't be manipulated so easily. It's a rough approximation of the number of trust points from distinct users per month. So if I rate someone 3 times in one month and 3 times in another month, the fourth number should be 6. But if I rate them 1000 times in one month, their fourth number should be ~5. (But it's actually only an approximation of this.)

I needed to get this number for the trust score anyway, so I thought I'd include it.

The trust score is currently calculated like this:
floor((min(fourth_number,10*months_since_first_positive_report)/10)^2*months_since_first_positive_report - distinct_scam_reporters * scam_factor)

Where scam_factor starts at 0.5 and increases by 1 if the newest scam report is less than 7 days old and by 3 if months_since_first_positive_report is less than 2.

It will be more clear in a couple months whether this is a good algorithm. I'll tweak it more then.

Fixed.

In order to collect more money for the creation of good forum software and for other useful purposes, the forum is selling ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page.

Ads are allowed to contain any non-annoying HTML/CSS style. No images, JavaScript, or animation (no marquee or blinking). Ads must appear 3 or fewer lines tall in my browser. Ads will be prefixed with "Advertisement:". Ad text may not contain lies, misrepresentation, or inappropriate language. Ads may not link directly to any NSFW page. Ads may be rejected for other reasons.

There are 10 total ad slots which are randomly rotated. So one ad slot has a one in ten chance of appearing. Seven of the slots are for sale here. Ads appear only on topic pages with more than one post, and only for people using the default theme.

The ad lasts at least 7 days starting from when I put it up. (However, if you look at the ad history you'll see that ads frequently get 1-2 extra days, but this is random and definitely not guaranteed.)

Stats

Exact historical impression counts per slot:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstats

Info about the current ad slots:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo

Auction rules

Post your bids in this thread. Prices must be stated in BTC per slot. You must state the max number of slots you want. When the auction ends, the highest bidders will have their slots filled until all seven slots are filled.

So if someone bids for 7 slots @ 5 BTC and this is the highest bid, then he'll get all 7 slots. If the two highest bids are 7 slots @ 4 BTC and 1 slot @ 5 BTC, then the first person will get 6 slots and the second person will get 1 slot.

The notation "2 @ 5" means 2 slots for 5 BTC each. Not 2 slots for 5 BTC total.

- When you post a bid, the bids in your previous posts are considered to be automatically canceled. You can put multiple bids in one post, however.
- All bid prices must be evenly divisible by 0.25.
- The bidding starts at 0.50.
- I will end the auction at an arbitrary time no more than 12 days from now. (I will probably end the auction 1-3 days before the ads are scheduled to go up.)
- If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first.
- Bids are considered invalid and will be ignored if they do not specify both a price and a max quantity, or if they could not possibly win any slots

If these rules are confusing, look at some of the past forum ad auctions to see how it's done. I also post periodic status updates which should help make things clear.

You must pay for your slots within 24 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slots may be sold to someone else.

From this round forward, hero members, Donators, VIPs, and moderators will have the option of disabling ads. People who don't see ads due to this will obviously not count toward the number of impressions. This option is buried in the profile settings, so I don't expect this to affect impression stats or ad efficacy significantly, but I'll guarantee at least 420,000 impressions per slot for this round.

Auction ended. Final result:
Slots BTC/Slot Person
1 6 Xian01
1 6 BitcoinVideoPoker
4 5.75 Inaba
1 5.5 paul3

QC doesn't break SHA-256.

OK.

Yeah. It'd also be better to be able to give a score to each person on your trust list which limits how much their ratings count toward the scores. But the current system is a lot easier and more efficient. It'll be good enough for now.