A forum rules change is coming, which will affect Asylum.Follow

I dunno, the response didn't get much thought admittedly.

Mostly just that people fixated on viewing boobies are highly unlikely to be purchasing anything unrelated to said boobies at that time, and the easier it is to tell which sites are which the easier it is to get the proper adds appearing on the those sites. If you have to pay to have your links appear, you only want it appearing when people are likely to actually click your link.

Or something like that?

Perhaps they were confused by the superbowl.

Nah, brand management is a pretty massive investment by companies. You don't want your ads showing up next to content that could negatively impact your brand image. Sure, there's probably a strong correlation between people who watch **** and people who drink Coke. But Coke doesn't particularly want their brand being connected with bukake in those customer's minds.

And they're not crazy. Studies on branding pretty firmly reinforce the idea that control is preferable.

It's funny that you mention that...

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Sprite is one of Coke Cola's products in case you didn't know for some reason or another. Also this isn't a legit ad, but I digress.

Edited, Feb 11th 2014 3:59pm by Shaowstrike

I wouldn't be surprised if Google DID have a **** site option, at least through some company under its control.

I think the bigger issue is setting up any kind of realistic tiering option.

This is a gaming site. Google would do best by providing ads that are most likely to be attractive to gamers (gaming-related ones, obviously, but also ads suitable to the site's demographic). But forums like the Asylum really break the mold there - a lot of the ads they want to run they don't want to run alongside a discussion about whether or not condoms are best for the **** industry.

Is having a "adult content possible" tier really going to help Google's profits? Probably not. Particularly not when the website doesn't really have another advertising option in the first place.

And the thing is, Google also needs to establish their brand name, just like the companies advertising through them. Google has decided it doesn't want its brand associated with smut. I'm not surprised.

Not saying I'm happy about this at all. But I'm not remotely shocked. From a business perspective, it's smart. As a consumer, I lose out. But Google has to market their adsense service to businesses, not the people visiting the website. We're the product, not the customer.

Apparently I've been doing it wrong. Noted.

It's "confused."

I would guess that zam has picked a category that they want to fit in based on audience and potential ad revenue, and google is setting rules within that space.

I just wish reddit had a conversation mode.

I'll just keep posting here, I can't be bothered to find a new way.