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#1 Apr 26 2004 at 11:31 AM Rating: Decent
dear allakhazam staff,

i understand and appreciate the fact that you need to make money. i currently do not have the funds available to support your "premium" service. however i'd like to beg you to change advertisers. i don't mind banner ads heck sometimes you find something cool. However here are my reasons why

1. out of the 80% of the time i am at your site i am waiting for the advertisers website to respond.
2. the web browser i use (opera) either is waiting for content from your page or waiting for the content from the advertiser before finish displaying the page. i understand this isnt your fault it is a design of the browser.
3. because of 1 and 2 i often stop loading a page and hit the reload button to get a faster advertiser's web server.
4. because of 3 your network bandwidth INCREASES, this will increase your costs of business requiring you to either seek additional advertising or charge more for premium services.
5. because of the increase of premium services less people will sign up.
6. because less people sign up you eventually either strictly rely on banner ads or you go out of buisness.
7. because of the long dely waiting for advertising websites you make it worth my wild to invest time in looking into setting up apache to serve up a 1x1 pixel no matter what has been requested to speed up page loads.
8. because of 7 you lose advertising dollars.


i only state this because i enjoy this site and the forums and the use the info here almost religously. i WANT you to stay in buisness. like i said if i had the cash i would pay you for the premium services.

Sincerly yours,
Musikit
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#2 Apr 26 2004 at 11:35 AM Rating: Good
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Dear, Allakhazam Staff,

I am not satisfied with the level of service your free website provides me. On occasion I am inconvienenced by your free web site in such a way that it leads me to believe that the performance might be better if I were to pay for the service.

Clearly this unaccaptable. In all other facets of life, the free service I recieve is up to par with paid services. When i go to the gas station to get free gas, the gas that they fill my car up with is the very same gas that I recceive when I pay for the gas. Yes, I grant, there is a gun involved at the gas station so it isn't a direct comparison, but I hope you can see what I'm driving at.

Yours truely,

Smasharoo,
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#3 Apr 26 2004 at 11:56 AM Rating: Decent
Smasharoo wrote:
Dear, Allakhazam Staff,

I am not satisfied with the level of service your free website provides me.


very untrue i am quite satisfied with the free website service that allakhazam provides


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On occasion I am inconvienenced by your free web site in such a way that it leads me to believe that the performance might be better if I were to pay for the service.


yes i am inconvienenced. no i dont believe paying will make the server better. what i am stating is that i am inconviencenced by the ADVERTISERS not the ADVERTISING. they need to conver their bandwidth costs for putting this free site online and i have no problems with any way they have been using to make money so far. i commend it for being not that intrusive.

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Clearly this unaccaptable. In all other facets of life, the free service I recieve is up to par with paid services. When i go to the gas station to get free gas, the gas that they fill my car up with is the very same gas that I recceive when I pay for the gas. Yes, I grant, there is a gun involved at the gas station so it isn't a direct comparison, but I hope you can see what I'm driving at.

Yours truely,

Smasharoo,
Huge Banwith Leech.


i'm not a huge banwith leech or even a huge bandwidth leech. so are you saying you are a huge banwith leech or a bandwidth leech?
#4 Apr 26 2004 at 11:59 AM Rating: Good
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very untrue i am quite satisfied with the free website service that allakhazam provides

Glad we cleared that up :)
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#5 Apr 26 2004 at 6:08 PM Rating: Decent
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Yeah and all these **** banners are really getting on my nervers and th...the...wait where am I?
#6 Apr 26 2004 at 11:06 PM Rating: Good
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i'm not a huge banwith leech or even a huge bandwidth leech. so are you saying you are a huge banwith leech or a bandwidth leech?

He's saying that there's a fine chance your mother smoked crack when she was carrying you in utero. He's also saying that the metal plate placed in your head after she repeatedly dropped you out of the second floor window might be interfering with your cognitive powers. I believe he's also saying it's not to late to salt yourself, as it were.

But what comes across clearly to even my ingnit **** is the big "Shut the f'uck up!" that was typed very clearly across the top of the page.
#7 Apr 26 2004 at 11:29 PM Rating: Good
Dear Allakhazam staff,

Could you please add pop-ups to all non-premium members, upon entrance to any thread. Or even better put in one of those annoying intermediate pages, that you have to click on "Click here to continue" to get into each and every thread. I am a premium member and I would like more differential between me and the non paying customer.
#8 Apr 26 2004 at 11:46 PM Rating: Decent
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C'mon guys, people have no idea what's in store for them when they post here ><

Give them a break once in a while.


P.S. Koa warned us about all y'all. <---- Read with caution, it contradicts the above statement!!1!!!!!11

Edited, Tue Apr 27 01:08:02 2004 by Xbow

Edited, Tue Apr 27 01:08:26 2004 by Xbow
#9 Apr 26 2004 at 11:58 PM Rating: Good
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P.S. Koa warned us about all y'all.

/Moebius mode on

Obviously not enough to keep you away.

/Moebius mode off

Edited, Tue Apr 27 00:58:34 2004 by TwiztidSamurai
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#10 Apr 26 2004 at 11:58 PM Rating: Decent
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P.S. Koa warned us about all y'all.

That's comforting, did he say he'd protect you all with his 1337 h4ck0rzz 5kilz?
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#11 Apr 27 2004 at 12:02 AM Rating: Decent
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He said this.

So blame him.
#12 Apr 27 2004 at 12:05 AM Rating: Good
Xbow wrote:
C'mon guys, people have no idea what's in store for them when they post here

[quoteXbow]P.S. Koa warned us about all y'all. [/quote]
Need I point out for you the obvious contradiction? Or was you childhood a little more dwarf-tossing free than the OP?

They're cute, aren't they? I don't even have enough of a material sampling to make up cute little so and so wrote names for them.
#13 Apr 27 2004 at 12:12 AM Rating: Decent
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That dirty *******.
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To make a long story short, I don't take any responsibility for anything I post here. It's not news, it's not truth, it's not serious. It's parody. It's satire. It's bitter. It's angsty. Your mother's a *****. You like to jack off dogs. That's right, you heard me. You like to grab that dog by the bone and rub it like a ski pole. Your dad? Gay. Your priest? Straight. **** off and let me post. It's not true, it's all in good fun. Now go away.

#14 Apr 27 2004 at 12:39 AM Rating: Excellent
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hrmm not reall fair of Kaolian to warn people about this forum, but it is most excellent that some of them jump into the ongoing discussions here. It's better than watching 18 Thundra sockpuppets argue.

Anyhow, to be perfectly honest with you Musikit, main reason for having advertizing on this website is to annoy people into buying the premium service. While I'd rather that you buy it because of the good extra features, whatever works...

That said, granted there are people as yourself who would like to buy the premium service, but cannot afford to, who ust get irritated and annoyed by the ads (I mean what else is advertizing designed to do?, it certainly doesn't sell shi[b][/b]t to me) And for that I feel for you.

We're not the worst for ads. There are plenty of places with more annoying "hi, I'm intercepting your click" ads, and intersiticials and worse. We're no Google ad-word thing. (but we had to drop google, because eq plat sales kept coming up for ad-words, pick your poison I suppose)

Thanks for your feedback , I appreciate your concern. I highly suggest migrating to Fire<nameoftheday> for your browsing experience - it's better than Opera, it supports more standards, including XSL, which we've adopted here as our profile system language.

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#15 Apr 27 2004 at 12:54 AM Rating: Good
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It's better than watching 18 Thundra sockpuppets argue.

Without me, visiting this board would be as exciting as watching a hippo wade through a river of glue.

No, that is not a reference to 'Angry Hippo', nor is it a sexual metaphor.

Can you imagine a board replete with Smash's political posts?
#16 Apr 27 2004 at 1:06 AM Rating: Decent
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Can you imagine a board replete with Smash's political posts?


I try not to think of such horrors.
#17 Apr 27 2004 at 7:17 AM Rating: Decent
Illia the Tulip wrote:

Anyhow, to be perfectly honest with you Musikit, main reason for having advertizing on this website is to annoy people into buying the premium service. While I'd rather that you buy it because of the good extra features, whatever works...

That said, granted there are people as yourself who would like to buy the premium service, but cannot afford to, who ust get irritated and annoyed by the ads (I mean what else is advertizing designed to do?, it certainly doesn't sell shi[b][/b]t to me) And for that I feel for you.

We're not the worst for ads. There are plenty of places with more annoying "hi, I'm intercepting your click" ads, and intersiticials and worse. We're no Google ad-word thing. (but we had to drop google, because eq plat sales kept coming up for ad-words, pick your poison I suppose)


first Illia i'd would like to thank you for being the first person here to not flame my post. my post was not geared to be a "this site sucks cause of ads" post. i rather enjoy your site and appreciate all the good work your team has done in keeping it operational.

second i understand your a business. you need/want to make money off of this website. dang it is your right to make money off this site and i doubt if this site wasnt at least break even for your group you wouldn't keep it up.

third i don't find the banner ads "intrusive" and i know of thousands of othersites the do worse stuff (like keep a dialog centered to where your mouse is). I commend your group again for keeping the site clean of such javascript "features"

however i find sometimes i often have to stop loading a page and reload it because one of your advertisers websites has timed out on servicing their ads. this i think is making you lose money since your bandwidth is more expensive then their ad revenue.

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Thanks for your feedback , I appreciate your concern. I highly suggest migrating to Fire<nameoftheday> for your browsing experience - it's better than Opera, it supports more standards, including XSL, which we've adopted here as our profile system language.


mozilla/flamer although is a great browser i find opera to be a better browser and faster at rendering pages as well. the standards i am losing out on i could care less about. XML and its sister technology as far as i am concerned are not "keepers" and i have not been denied a site because of lack of XML support. to each their own i guess. i'm sure people out there think IE is a great browser.
#18 Apr 27 2004 at 7:24 AM Rating: Decent
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Sorry Musikit gonna flame.

Don't like pop ups spend 3 lousy dollars a month for membership.

Tight *****
#19 Apr 27 2004 at 7:42 AM Rating: Decent
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Sorry Musikit gonna flame.

Don't like pop ups spend 3 lousy dollars a month for membership.

Tight *****


this site has pop-ups???? huh i guess ill have to tell opera to allow popups. hold on brb.

nope no popups. maybe you should read.


Edited, Tue Apr 27 08:43:04 2004 by musikit
#20 Apr 27 2004 at 10:21 AM Rating: Decent
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this site has pop-ups???? huh i guess ill have to tell opera to allow popups. hold on brb.

nope no popups. maybe you should read.
Maybe you should start acting like a human being instead of complaining about something you get for FREE!

you can leave now, don't let the door hit you in the back of the head when you leave dipsh*t.
#21 Apr 27 2004 at 12:10 PM Rating: Good
Whats wrong with IE6? What are you really looking for in a browser? I just want it to bring up webpages, which this one does. Maybe I am missing something! Anyway, I never have any problem on this or any other site, so maybe you should take another look at why opera is a better browser.

Actually, I just put something together here. You have no money for a membership that costs, what is it, 10 cents a day, and I am guessing you don't have broadband. Perhaps a job is what you need.

Edited, Tue Apr 27 13:13:23 2004 by Reinman
#22 Apr 27 2004 at 12:13 PM Rating: Decent
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Whats wrong with IE6?

Aside from the rampant security issues and ****** performance, it's peachy.
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To make a long story short, I don't take any responsibility for anything I post here. It's not news, it's not truth, it's not serious. It's parody. It's satire. It's bitter. It's angsty. Your mother's a *****. You like to jack off dogs. That's right, you heard me. You like to grab that dog by the bone and rub it like a ski pole. Your dad? Gay. Your priest? Straight. **** off and let me post. It's not true, it's all in good fun. Now go away.

#23 Apr 27 2004 at 12:17 PM Rating: Good
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Aside from the rampant security issues and sh*tty performance, it's peachy.


With broadband who cares about performance! Security??? pfft. What are they going to do, steal my ****? Make me re-install Windows...bring it on.
#24 Apr 27 2004 at 12:48 PM Rating: Decent
Reinman wrote:
Whats wrong with IE6?



many numerous things. number 1 being the fact that a website can run any code they want on my computer without my permission


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What are you really looking for in a browser?


a graphical version on Lynx. no plugins. very good cookie handling. no ActiveX. no "multi-media". just graphical HTML and pictures.


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Actually, I just put something together here. You have no money for a membership that costs, what is it, 10 cents a day, and I am guessing you don't have broadband. Perhaps a job is what you need.


i have a job. i have broadband. i don't have cable television. i don't have a "landline" i don't go driving around in "rice-mobiles", i only have 1 credit card. no loans. i room with 3 other friends to afford the rent. i have one other hobby beside this game and it aint that costly. i make an honest living keeping your american *** safe.

#25 Apr 27 2004 at 12:55 PM Rating: Decent
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http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

All set. Throw Opera away.
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To make a long story short, I don't take any responsibility for anything I post here. It's not news, it's not truth, it's not serious. It's parody. It's satire. It's bitter. It's angsty. Your mother's a *****. You like to jack off dogs. That's right, you heard me. You like to grab that dog by the bone and rub it like a ski pole. Your dad? Gay. Your priest? Straight. **** off and let me post. It's not true, it's all in good fun. Now go away.

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