EPTDo you adblock TeamLiquid? - Page 13
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Mowr
Sweden791 Posts
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howerpower
United States619 Posts
On November 04 2011 05:02 Hot_Bid wrote: Honestly, I don't understand this mentality. Clearly, TL and the community both benefit from each other, and both TL and the community do things that the other couldn't. We would not exist without each other. However, what the guy said is partly true. If everyone used adblock on TL, we'd have shut down, no matter how many people wrote news articles. It's your browser, it's your right to do whatever you wish. But we believe we're justified in asking (nicely) for you to disable it. Obviously, we'd never ban or shitlist people who use adblock, just cast righteous, elitist judgment on you. As for the "Don't Hurt ESPORTS" text, obviously it was a joke. We were making fun of people who always used that tagline no matter what. We don't actually think that. It's amazing how many people took it seriously, so many that we had to remove it. right, the community wouldn't exist without TL...... | ||
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LoLAdriankat
United States4307 Posts
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Klonere
Ireland4123 Posts
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Hot_Bid
Braavos36399 Posts
On November 04 2011 05:04 howerpower wrote: right, the community wouldn't exist without TL...... Seriously? You cherry pick a line out of my post? I obviously meant the TL community wouldn't exist. And yes, I also believe that the greater community, TL or not, would not be the way it is now without TL (and it's staff). I don't think that's an unreasonable statement to make. I edited my post to make it more clear, geez. | ||
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Kurr
Canada2338 Posts
If a site requires me to disable adblock (MLG stream) I'd rather try to find a way around it (having to refresh stream at every commercial for MLG) than disabling adblock. I hate ads on TV, I hate them on the internet. I will never buy an item I see in an ad because I saw it in an ad. I will buy something when I go "I'd like something that does X for reason Y." and then find said item at a good price. Sorry to the sites that could use it like TeamLiquid but if I started making exceptions for sites I visit I would end up with no use for ad block since I would have them all unblocked. | ||
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urashimakt
United States1591 Posts
On November 04 2011 05:04 howerpower wrote: right, the community wouldn't exist without TL...... I don't think he meant each individual wouldn't have been born without TeamLiquid. He probably meant that there wouldn't be this very specific group of foreign Starcraft/poker fans doing the awesome things that they do to this day. | ||
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Zato-1
Chile4253 Posts
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SynthFae
Poland26 Posts
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uzyszkodnik
Poland64 Posts
If you really need the revenue from ads please publish your income and your needs. | ||
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synapse
China13814 Posts
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LaM
United States1321 Posts
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Torenhire
United States11681 Posts
On November 04 2011 05:07 Kurr wrote: I do block ads. I block them everywhere and I don't see why I would make an exception here. The internet is 500% worse without adblock; renders a lot of sites semi-unusable. If a site requires me to disable adblock (MLG stream) I'd rather try to find a way around it (having to refresh stream at every commercial for MLG) than disabling adblock. I hate ads on TV, I hate them on the internet. I will never buy an item I see in an ad because I saw it in an ad. I will buy something when I go "I'd like something that does X for reason Y." and then find said item at a good price. Sorry to the sites that could use it like TeamLiquid but if I started making exceptions for sites I visit I would end up with no use for ad block since I would have them all unblocked. Lol they're not asking you to buy shit or click on the ads on your site. You act like the internet is your holy ground or something and that NO MAN HAS THE RIGHT TO INTRUDE ON MY INTERNET SPACE. Grow up, dude. I hate ads probably just as much as you do, but for a site that I love, that generates their revenue off of the tiny ass banner ad, it's the least someone can do. FWIW I have it blocked on the entire rest of the internet and not TL, so no you aren't "forced" to unblock everywhere else you visit. | ||
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Hot_Bid
Braavos36399 Posts
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howerpower
United States619 Posts
On November 04 2011 05:06 Hot_Bid wrote: Seriously? You cherry pick a line out of my post? I obviously meant the TL community. The TL community is the starcraft community, which doesn't need to TL to survive anymore. It used to be the place for everything starcraft, but honestly the only way I find it useful anymore is the streamlist and the awesome players you support. | ||
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RouaF
France4121 Posts
 Edit : as for the don't hurt esports thing I'm quite sure most people got the joke... personally I did and it made me smile even tho I will clearly not stop blocking ads. | ||
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LoLAdriankat
United States4307 Posts
On November 04 2011 05:05 Klonere wrote: People's ability to deal with small, trivial annoyances is so small now, its quite sad. I think some people just can't get their brain to filter out advertisements. People are saying how distracting they are, but I don't even look at them or think about them. Besides, that banner that tells me I'm a jerk for having adblock on is much more distracting than these ads. | ||
Insane
United States4991 Posts
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bonifaceviii
Canada2890 Posts
On November 04 2011 05:11 howerpower wrote: The TL community is the starcraft community, which doesn't need to TL to survive anymore. It used to be the place for everything starcraft, but honestly the only way I find it useful anymore is the streamlist and the awesome players you support. Cool bro, thanks for stopping by! I assume I won't be seeing you anymore in this thread then! | ||
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Kurr
Canada2338 Posts
On November 04 2011 05:10 Torenhire wrote: Lol they're not asking you to buy shit or click on the ads on your site. You act like the internet is your holy ground or something and that NO MAN HAS THE RIGHT TO INTRUDE ON MY INTERNET SPACE. Grow up, dude. I hate ads probably just as much as you do, but for a site that I love, that generates their revenue off of the tiny ass banner ad, it's the least someone can do. FWIW I have it blocked on the entire rest of the internet and not TL, so no you aren't "forced" to unblock everywhere else you visit. I visit quite a few site that ask me nicely to unblock ads. It's not just TL. I don't see why I would make an exception for TL but not a different website. Hence, it would only make sense for me to unblock ads on TL if I unblocked them on every site I want to support, and I don't plan to do that because it would render adblock useless. I got adblock in the first place because ads were getting on my nerves. | ||
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