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[DiamondCardz]

Come on, this is getting ridiculous.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=273242.msg2987860#msg2987860

You're taking in $10k in a week and 70% of the money is doing nothing. It's not being used for new software or "other useful purposes" at all. And you're still allowing BFL to bid while smaller businesses get pushed out:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=273242.msg2986954#msg2986954

theymos, at least put a cap on the amount of slots someone can have in a month or similar.

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[zackclark70]

Come on, this is getting ridiculous.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=273242.msg2987860#msg2987860

You're taking in $10k in a week and 70% of the money is doing nothing. It's not being used for new software or "other useful purposes" at all. And you're still allowing BFL to bid while smaller businesses get pushed out:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=273242.msg2986954#msg2986954

theymos, at least put a cap on the amount of slots someone can have in a month or similar.

The forum has loads of cash they should be supporting the crypto community  even if they gave away 1 slot a week to a small crypto business it would make people feel that they are doing at least something for the community 

[DiamondCardz]

It's things like this which lead to things like this. People are already fed up, and nothing happens when people call for change.

[Raoul Duke]

Come on, this is getting ridiculous.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=273242.msg2987860#msg2987860

You're taking in $10k in a week and 70% of the money is doing nothing. It's not being used for new software or "other useful purposes" at all. And you're still allowing BFL to bid while smaller businesses get pushed out:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=273242.msg2986954#msg2986954

theymos, at least put a cap on the amount of slots someone can have in a month or similar.

The forum has loads of cash they should be supporting the crypto community  even if they gave away 1 slot a week to a small crypto business it would make people feel that they are doing at least something for the community 

1 or 2 of the slots, probably just 1, are given for free for VIP's and Staff to insert an ad. Said slot is divided by all ads from VIP's and Staff.
I might be mistaken, but the above is what I seem to recall. I'm sure a better informed someone will drop by and confirm, deny, or correct what I said.

[favdesu]

I have no problem with the forum and let's be honest: if you could make 10k with a forum per week, you would take it too.

Though I would donate some or give smaller projects a chance

[zackclark70]

It's things like this which lead to things like this. People are already fed up, and nothing happens when people call for change.

I asked nicely for them to sort the altcoin section but it got me no ware so in the end I made altcointalk.co.uk its had some problems but its going well


there are so many things that they are doing wrong on here I cant even list them all I got scammed for 3btc + and they were not even interested
( never even replied )

I get constant fud from an account called zackclark700 tried to take a loan out using my rep then when I got the thread removed after lots of complaining the account then started giving me constant abuse

[stormlighter]

theymos, at least put a cap on the amount of slots someone can have in a month or similar.

Put a cap on income and earnings?... go fish

[DiamondCardz]

Come on, this is getting ridiculous.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=273242.msg2987860#msg2987860

You're taking in $10k in a week and 70% of the money is doing nothing. It's not being used for new software or "other useful purposes" at all. And you're still allowing BFL to bid while smaller businesses get pushed out:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=273242.msg2986954#msg2986954

theymos, at least put a cap on the amount of slots someone can have in a month or similar.

The forum has loads of cash they should be supporting the crypto community  even if they gave away 1 slot a week to a small crypto business it would make people feel that they are doing at least something for the community  

1 or 2 of the slots, probably just 1, are given for free for VIP's and Staff to insert an ad. Said slot is divided by all ads from VIP's and Staff.
I might be mistaken, but the above is what I seem to recall. I'm sure a better informed someone will drop by and confirm, deny, or correct what I said.

Factoids. https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo

1 in 570 chance of a Factoid showing. You get 1 Factoid for free if you're a Donator/VIP. Still pretty terrible, the odds are tiny.

theymos, at least put a cap on the amount of slots someone can have in a month or similar.

Put a cap on income and earnings?... go fish

You think there isn't competition for these ads already?

[stormlighter]

regardless of what I think - no sane man would put a cap on their income & earnings due making to much money!

[whiskers75]

It's not just this.

Theymos SAID IN THE VERY DONATOR THREAD that he planned to get the forum software done almost a year ago.
Where are we now..?

[DiamondCardz]

regardless of what I think - no sane man would put a cap on their income & earnings due making to much money!

theymos isn't supposed to be using the funds for his own purposes (i.e the 70% that isn't for the mod team).

[theymos]

More money is never bad. It may be useful someday. Having it sit around is good for the Bitcoin economy, actually: it represents the fact that the forum has provided a service but hasn't yet demanded much from the economy in return.

You can verify that the money is in fact sitting around and not being used arbitrarily. The cold storage addresses are public. A lot of the money isn't even held by me.

1 in 570 chance of a Factoid showing. You get 1 Factoid for free if you're a Donator/VIP. Still pretty terrible, the odds are tiny.

1 in 570 chance of a particular factoid showing. Some factoid is shown with a 1 in 10 chance.

[DiamondCardz]

More money is never bad. It may be useful someday. Having it sit around is good for the Bitcoin economy, actually: it represents the fact that the forum has provided a service but hasn't yet demanded much from the economy in return.

But some people bought ads with the understanding that their money would be put towards developing new forum software. There is more than enough money to have new forum software made now, but nothing is happening with it. That's the primary concern with the ad money.

[Raoul Duke]

1 in 570 chance of a Factoid showing. You get 1 Factoid for free if you're a Donator/VIP. Still pretty terrible, the odds are tiny.

When you put those numbers side by side with the forum pageviews the odds suddenly don't look as tiny as you want us to believe...
Let's get those numbers down.
429669026 pageviews since November 2011, so, 22 months give or take...
429669026÷22= 20460429 pageviews per month.
19530410÷30 = 682014 pageviews per day
651013÷24 = 28417 pageviews per hour
27125÷60 = 452 pageviews per minute

And please note that those are average numbers, and the current stats put those averages to shame if you bother to do the math.

More money is never bad. It may be useful someday. Having it sit around is good for the Bitcoin economy, actually: it represents the fact that the forum has provided a service but hasn't yet demanded much from the economy in return.

But some people donated with the understanding that their money would be put towards developing new forum software. There is more than enough money to have new forum software made now, but nothing is happening with it. That's the primary concern with the donation money.

Isn't this thread about advertisements? Why are you talking about the donations money now? When your initial argument doesn't cut it you just switch to a new one, is that it?

[DiamondCardz]

1 in 570 chance of a Factoid showing. You get 1 Factoid for free if you're a Donator/VIP. Still pretty terrible, the odds are tiny.

When you put those numbers side by side with the forum pageviews the odds suddenly doen't look as tiny as you want us to believe...
Let's get those numbers down.
429669026 pageviews since November 2011, so, 22 months give or take...
429669026÷22= 20460429 pageviews per month.
19530410÷30 = 682014 pageviews per day
651013÷24 = 28417 pageviews per hour
27125÷60 = 452 pageviews per minute

And please note that those are average numbers, and the current stats put those averages to shame if you bother to do the math.

More money is never bad. It may be useful someday. Having it sit around is good for the Bitcoin economy, actually: it represents the fact that the forum has provided a service but hasn't yet demanded much from the economy in return.

But some people donated with the understanding that their money would be put towards developing new forum software. There is more than enough money to have new forum software made now, but nothing is happening with it. That's the primary concern with the donation money.

Isn't this thread about advertisements? Why are you talking about the donations money now? When your initial argument doesn't cut it you just switch to a new one, is that it?

ohfail, ad money, I meant. (Because 70% of the ad money is kept in storage)

And psy, this part of the argument has still been skipped:

And you're still allowing BFL to bid while smaller businesses get pushed out

The excuse of more money doesn't really cut it, you know the score with how the community hates BFL advertising.

[whiskers75]

More money is never bad. It may be useful someday. Having it sit around is good for the Bitcoin economy, actually: it represents the fact that the forum has provided a service but hasn't yet demanded much from the economy in return.

You can verify that the money is in fact sitting around and not being used arbitrarily. The cold storage addresses are public. A lot of the money isn't even held by me.

1 in 570 chance of a Factoid showing. You get 1 Factoid for free if you're a Donator/VIP. Still pretty terrible, the odds are tiny.

1 in 570 chance of a particular factoid showing. Some factoid is shown with a 1 in 10 chance.

Well, the community is now demanding new software... So why not use this money?

[Kyle91]

just ban advertisements altogether

[jackjack]

just ban advertisements altogether

It's really funny how 100% of your posts are only one sentence long

[Kyle91]

just ban advertisements altogether

It's really funny how 100% of your posts are only one sentence long

I'm a man of few words

[b!z]

just ban advertisements altogether

It's really funny how 100% of your posts are only one sentence long

Some of them are even just 1 word. Looks like someone trying to farm posts.

OT: There's no such thing as too much money :-)