I would like to give my thanks to the current moderators.

I just try my best to dodge the ads and stay out of their way. I haven't downloaded any ad blockers or new web browsers, because I don't spend nearly as much time on PW as I used to. But I do appreciate the mods here who volunteer their time and efforts.Īs for the ads, yes, they are annoying and unpleasant. There were times it was very stressful, and caused me to loose sleep at night. I can't say I enjoyed it, and I'm glad I don't do that any more. I agreed to do it because I thought it was an opportunity to give back and contribute to the forum in a tangible way, along with the monetary contributions. I was recruited and encouraged to volunteer as a moderator by Ken Knapp. I was a volunteer moderator here for several years, years ago. Thanks for your comments on the volunteer mods, Carey! Perhaps you'd like to volunteer your time and show us how it should be done.Īnd yes, the ads are quite annoying on my mobile phone. Power tripping mods? It's a thankless job. Both in terms of the aesthetic presentation, the consideration of the user, and the safeness & trustworthiness of the ads/extra software.Īnd you still got the power tripping mods who can now pride themselves of worthily contributing to a money making web site for free, flex their muscles in matters they're ignorant about and still can hide behind anonymous nicks. I don't mind that in exchange for the valuable and wonderful resource this place is.īut it should all be better done than this. I get how capitalism works, that this website was bought out for it's value and that we have become a commodity. And I fear that people who aren't familiar with all that extra stuff.who are just using a regular default browser without all the add-ons may not only be getting a bad aesthetic experience, but goodness knows what else. But it's a real shame we have to do all that. I guess that's the price I have to pay for using the site. I also keep my antivirus set to 'zap anything that moves' when I'm on here now. What about those who aren't?Īll that said, as of today, I've now started using a separate secure browser just for PW, with ad blocker. It's never done that on my computer, but I use more modern and secure browsers, adblockers, stronger antivirus, etc. That worries me beyond just the aesthetic interruption. And some of these companies have malware/spyware and goodness knows what else. Some of the ads being implemented here are clearly from less-than-scrupulous companies - these aren't your typical Google ads. Which makes me wonder if the ad software, or whatever new software, did that. Now, I was using a different computer then I'm used to, so I'll allow the margin of error that maybe I did something - but that's hard to do without noticing. It was 0 bytes, so I don't know if that means there was nothing in it, or nothing large enough to constitute 1 byte, but it was weird and felt unsafe. About five minutes in, a '.htm' file randomly downloaded, sans permission.

Today (which makes this thread that much more timely for me!), while setting up my elderly aunt's new printer (and fixing everything she'd broken/turned off/disabled by accident on her computer), I took a break and browsed this site among other things - her computer doesn't have ad blocker and she uses default Microsoft Edge (basically the new Microsoft Explorer). If they were more cleverly implemented, say, in those blank spaces on the sides of the forums - and they stayed there - I think fewer would mind. It's terrible to look at, and some ads seem to have a life of their own and want to take over the screen. The random videos between posts, the ads that pop up and block posts, the videos that play without permission, the ads that go full-screen, the ads that are nearly impossible to hide.geez. I agree with those who say it's not the ads, so much as it's how poorly they are implemented.

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