Page 1 of 1

A request has been made ...

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:49 am
by KoolBear
Best Buy has requested that we display a banner ... here the email...
Dear Webmaster of Descent Community Forums,

We are interested in text ad and/or banner placement on Descent Community Forums for Best Buy at 15 cents per unique click up to $300.

Best Buy is now featuring the Xbox 360 releases of Call of Duty 2, Project Gotham Racing 3, Perfect Dark Zero, Full Auto, Fight Night 3, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Battlefied 2; Modern Combat and the PS2 release of The Godfather: The Game!

Best Buy is also hosting a Gaming Championship featuring games like Ghost Recon; Advanced Warfighter and other exciting games! Participants will compete for prizes including cash prizes, and the semi-finalist teams will win a trip to Los Angeles for the finals in early May during the world-renowned E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo)!

If you are interested in being an advertiser for this campaign, please go to http://www.hypemakers.net/bbyapril/go/v/invite/s/1860 to sign up (your information will not be shared with any other party).

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We look forward to working with you!

All the best,

Nabeel Hatem and Karin Chamberlain
Hype Council
http://www.hypecouncil.com
Is this something we want to do? If we could get everyone to click a link when they visit the DBB it would offset hosting fees.

Thoughts

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:35 am
by Ferno
If this is an april fool's joke, it's funny.

if it's serious... no way. the whole idea behind the dbb was to NOT have advertising.

they can take their offer and shove it for all i care.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:43 am
by Vindicator
I thought thats why we had contributor accounts.

Re:

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:46 am
by Ferno
Vindicator wrote:I thought thats why we had contributor accounts.
uh, no. they work the same way as when you would donate to charity. something you don't have to do, but it's nice if you do.

but anyways...

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:08 pm
by Krom
lol funny, weather it is a joke or not.

The DBB as is has no ads, lets keep it that way.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:53 pm
by d3jake
I agree. I'd hate having an ad to distract me from from DBB. I say we tel them to go shove it.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:03 pm
by Xamindar
That doesn't seem like much money. I don't really care either way, but not Best Buy. Best Buy are not the kind of people I want to see ads for. I can always just use adblock anyway. :wink:

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:06 pm
by Unix
yeah, tell Nabeel to shove it.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:15 pm
by Testiculese
I'd adblock it anyway :)

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 3:38 pm
by Lothar
no ads please.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 3:55 pm
by d3jake
If you're going to accept an offer to put ads on the boards, make sure we can block them! :roll: You'll get the money and notbody'll see the ads.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:36 pm
by Duper
13 cents a click???. that would be what.. 26 cents per year?

Not!

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:16 pm
by fliptw
If it was 13 chicks per click, maybe.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:52 pm
by d3jake
I can find better chicks in a dumpster... j/k

sorry, that was a bad joke...

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:38 pm
by DCrazy
No, not a good idea. They probably sent this message out to 1,000 other gaming BBS's; let them shove this crap in their users' faces. I say keep this place pristine. :)

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 8:04 pm
by Cuda68
naa

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 8:55 pm
by CDN_Merlin
Nice try on april fools.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:26 pm
by d3jake
Tell the to go shove it! We don't need ads, never have, never will!

Re:

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:43 pm
by Ferno
CDN_Merlin wrote:Nice try on april fools.
yea you'd think it was an april fools.. until you click the link. then it becomes very unfunny.

Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:08 pm
by Richard Cranium
Ya, we could do it and put it on a hidden page with an invisible link. Maybe all the search engines will find it anyway and ++click it anyway. Free money!

RC

Re:

Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:26 pm
by KoolBear
Richard Cranium wrote:Ya, we could do it and put it on a hidden page with an invisible link. Maybe all the search engines will find it anyway and ++click it anyway. Free money!

RC
Interesting thought, and have the proceeds (if any) from the bots drop into the dbb hosting account

Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:57 pm
by Kilarin
Richard Cranium wrote:we could do it and put it on a hidden page with an invisible link.
A slightly different compromise on that.
Put a small button/link on the main descentbb page that says "Click here for ads"

Anyone who feels the urge to contribute a few minutes of time can click on it, pull up the page with the banner ads, and click on those to send a little money to the dbb. When you don't feel like it, you don't see them and they don't annoy you.

Re:

Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:04 pm
by Ferno
Kilarin wrote:
Richard Cranium wrote:we could do it and put it on a hidden page with an invisible link.
A slightly different compromise on that.
Put a small button/link on the main descentbb page that says "Click here for ads"

Anyone who feels the urge to contribute a few minutes of time can click on it, pull up the page with the banner ads, and click on those to send a little money to the dbb. When you don't feel like it, you don't see them and they don't annoy you.
um, how about no.

Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:33 pm
by Richard Cranium
Doesn't look like it would work anyway. Besides I'm not willing to fill out a W-9 for this stuff. That would give them way too much info about me.

RC
Please enter your shipping address. Any items you are assigned other than payment checks will be sent here.

My shipping address is the same as my payment address.
* First Name:
* Last Name:
* E-mail:
* Street:
* City:
* State: Other:
* Zip Code:
* Country:

Step 3: As an advocate partner, you must agree to the following terms and conditions:
* Banners must utilize pre-selected tracking codes until 05-15-06. Advocates will receive 15 cents (U.S.) per unique click up to $300.00 (U.S.), as tracked by HypeCouncil. Advocate payments under $5.00 to be credited towards future campaigns. Payments to Advocates are processed within 30 days of the campaign end date and receipt of a W-9 or equivalent document. All placements must be verified by HypeCouncil in order for clicks to that placement to count towards the Advocate's earnings.
* Banners must not be changed or re-sized, banked within any other advertising, or be moved from the guaranteed position without prior approval by HypeCouncil. HypeCouncil reserves the right to extend or terminate this campaign with or without cause at any time. HypeCouncil will compensate the website as referenced above, up to the point of cancellation. HypeCouncil is not responsible for the use of proceeds or merchandise received by the Advocate. Advocate agrees to hold HypeCouncil, its affiliates and clients, harmless from any and all liability stemming from the use or misuse of proceeds or merchandise as referenced above.
* Advocates will be required to provide proof of age. Advocates under the age of 18 will be required to obtain parent’s permission to receive payment.

Re:

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:15 am
by Ferno
Please enter your shipping address. Any items you are assigned other than payment checks will be sent here.

My shipping address is the same as my payment address.
* First Name:
* Last Name:
* E-mail:
* Street:
* City:
* State: Other:
* Zip Code:
* Country:

Step 3: As an advocate partner, you must agree to the following terms and conditions:
* Banners must utilize pre-selected tracking codes until 05-15-06. Advocates will receive 15 cents (U.S.) per unique click up to $300.00 (U.S.), as tracked by HypeCouncil. Advocate payments under $5.00 to be credited towards future campaigns. Payments to Advocates are processed within 30 days of the campaign end date and receipt of a W-9 or equivalent document. All placements must be verified by HypeCouncil in order for clicks to that placement to count towards the Advocate's earnings.
* Banners must not be changed or re-sized, banked within any other advertising, or be moved from the guaranteed position without prior approval by HypeCouncil. HypeCouncil reserves the right to extend or terminate this campaign with or without cause at any time. HypeCouncil will compensate the website as referenced above, up to the point of cancellation. HypeCouncil is not responsible for the use of proceeds or merchandise received by the Advocate. Advocate agrees to hold HypeCouncil, its affiliates and clients, harmless from any and all liability stemming from the use or misuse of proceeds or merchandise as referenced above.
* Advocates will be required to provide proof of age. Advocates under the age of 18 will be required to obtain parent’s permission to receive payment.
wow. almost no control from your end RC.