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<blockquote data-quote="Kelly Drown" data-source="post: 1494829" data-attributes="member: 40634"><p>Let me say this as a minimum; I have never liked having any advertising on my sites simply because I don't like the way it disrupts the visual landscape of a site. I don't have anything against advertising itself, just that trying to make everything look good and having a small amount of uncontrolled elements floating around with respect to contrasting and unflattering colors, bugs me a bit. That's probably the photographer and creative side in me.</p><p></p><p>However, advertising provides three important things to our community. </p><p></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">It provides us with links to places that have products and services we need and use. These are all places that I go to myself or use products and services they provide. It's nice to have an ad remind me sometimes that I need to get some more ammo, or that I've wanting a new toy or something.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Secondly of course is they can generate enough money to pay for our existence. Monthly fees for hosting, software upgrades and licensing, and new ventures. Up until now I've been largely paying for all of this out of my own pocket for the last 6 years.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Finally of course is to support local businesses and to promote local commerce inside the state of Oklahoma. That's why we're Oklahoma-centric here and always will be. I'm only interested in supporting and growing the Oklahoma community.</li> </ol><p></p><p>Recently I have received enough donations <em>(thank you to all that have donated!)</em> to cover costs in moving the site to a new provider, and updating all the software to the latest version and even go the extra step for new cool software. (vBulletin Suite upgrade alone was almost $300). The plan is, if we can generate more money for the site, we can have cooler things, faster response, and perhaps more things available like logo products and stuff like that. Most of those things have a significant cost associated them so it'll be nice to be able to roll forward with some cool new ideas.</p><p></p><p>So while I don't like adding a bunch of advertising to the site, I think it will greatly benefit everyone including the advertisers, and is a natural next step in our evolution. I'm trying to minimize the impact these changes will make, but there will always be some impact, and it will always cause some people to dislike it. I'm providing the opportunity to work through some of the issues the best I can within the limits of the software. So don't despair! We're not done yet.</p><p></p><p>-Kelly</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kelly Drown, post: 1494829, member: 40634"] Let me say this as a minimum; I have never liked having any advertising on my sites simply because I don't like the way it disrupts the visual landscape of a site. I don't have anything against advertising itself, just that trying to make everything look good and having a small amount of uncontrolled elements floating around with respect to contrasting and unflattering colors, bugs me a bit. That's probably the photographer and creative side in me. However, advertising provides three important things to our community. [LIST=1] [*]It provides us with links to places that have products and services we need and use. These are all places that I go to myself or use products and services they provide. It's nice to have an ad remind me sometimes that I need to get some more ammo, or that I've wanting a new toy or something. [*]Secondly of course is they can generate enough money to pay for our existence. Monthly fees for hosting, software upgrades and licensing, and new ventures. Up until now I've been largely paying for all of this out of my own pocket for the last 6 years. [*]Finally of course is to support local businesses and to promote local commerce inside the state of Oklahoma. That's why we're Oklahoma-centric here and always will be. I'm only interested in supporting and growing the Oklahoma community. [/LIST] Recently I have received enough donations [I](thank you to all that have donated!)[/I] to cover costs in moving the site to a new provider, and updating all the software to the latest version and even go the extra step for new cool software. (vBulletin Suite upgrade alone was almost $300). The plan is, if we can generate more money for the site, we can have cooler things, faster response, and perhaps more things available like logo products and stuff like that. Most of those things have a significant cost associated them so it'll be nice to be able to roll forward with some cool new ideas. So while I don't like adding a bunch of advertising to the site, I think it will greatly benefit everyone including the advertisers, and is a natural next step in our evolution. I'm trying to minimize the impact these changes will make, but there will always be some impact, and it will always cause some people to dislike it. I'm providing the opportunity to work through some of the issues the best I can within the limits of the software. So don't despair! We're not done yet. -Kelly [/QUOTE]
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