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

And it will only get worse. I just don't know for whom. People have already developed personal firewalls and basically ignore cable commercials ( unless it is superbowl ). The times they were not taught early on how to ignore ads, they have personal machines called the hopper, tivo or dvr that let them skip ads.

In the interwebz it is even easier.

Then again, the ads spread in spaces previously considered 'safe'. It is an arms race.

I am waiting for the enhanced reality crap when you make the world less shiny and scrap all the ads from your surroundings; one pixel at a time.

And it will only get worse. I just don't know for whom. People have already developed personal firewalls and basically ignore cable commercials

No. No, they don't. Advertising is as effective as it was in 1950. Probably more so, given the advances in social research since then. Apple has been selling people overpriced hardware for the last 20 years because of it, millions of people bought tubes of ******* wax to apply "directly to the forehead" because of it, ****** beer and sugar water make people billionaires because of it.

I'd get all worked up about this, but frankly my lack of participation around here over the last few years doesn't warrant it. That, and I can't bring myself to care too much. My warm fuzzies regarding this site dried up when it went corporate.

That said, it won't stop me from creatively using punctuation rather than foul language.
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As a regular Anonymous Guest, I get a great deal of enjoyment from reading through threads here while I am at work.

Edited, Feb 13th 2014 8:31am by AnimalOnSylph

Animal on sylph is my favorite kind of ****.

[Maybe NSW if your employer gets mad about semi-abstract nude figures. But maybe you should just be working anyway, you know? No one's paying you to click on links]

SpoilerI know I could have gone full Bondage Fairies but Google already has a man perched on the roof across the street watching me

Still better than posting fairy fighting.

I don't know, I could really go for some Erza/Mirajane/Evergreen/Juvia right about now.

But can you see which replies are new?

Sure. But I'd still think the bigger issue would be the other way around. The only people seeing ads for Baby Einstein while watching ****, are... wait for it... watching ****. Are they going to complain to the company that their ad appeared in the midst of their ****?

The problem is offensive advertising appearing on "family content" sites/shows/whatever. Always has been. I'd assume the ad company's only reason for not wanting their Baby products to appear on a **** site isn't about the offensive nature of the site, but that it's likely a poor demographic for their product thus meaning their advertising dollars are being wasted.

Same deal here. The only people seeing those ads are people who are at the site already, presumably knowing the content/whatever that the site has. The only effect that googles rules can result in is a loss of overall revenue. Those who don't care about their more strict rules will continue as normal and nothing changes. But some small percentage of people might decide to stop frequenting sites that now no longer allow certain content, meaning that they are no longer going to be seeing the ads, thus losing money for google and their clients.

Hence why I don't think it makes any sense to do this.

After simply reading that post the degree to which Baby Einstein and **** are now associated in my head is disturbing enough. I'm never going to see Rocket the same way again.

SpoilerNow hold your hands as high as you can, and say blast off!

Edited, Feb 14th 2014 3:53pm by someproteinguy

Sure. But that's primarily about demographics and sales. I'm probably not going to want my feminine care products commercial to air during the lumberjack competition. And I'm not going to want my baby product commercial to air during a **** show. But not so much because I care that the people watching the lumberjack competition or **** might make a strange association but because it would be a waste of my advertising dollars.

Where people get upset is when an offensive ad is shown in a family setting, not the other way around. No one sees a coke ad banner in Times Square 30 feet away from an ad for the latest sexy Broadway play about erotic strangulation and thinks "OMG! Coke is advocating erotic strangulation! I'm never buying their products again!!!". And while I suppose there may be some incredibly small amount of pressure from some groups against certain companies advertising on various shows/sites/whatever, I can't imagine it's that significant at all. And on the internet? More or less non-existent. I mean, I could maybe see someone being upset that their favorite product is airing a commercial during a show they find offensive because they might think in terms of "they're funding that garbage", but it's rare, and I don't think I've ever heard of this sort of thing with regard to internet advertising.


Having said all of that, I really honestly don't care that much about this, and I don't think it really affects us that much. While the devs have traditionaly allowed folks in the asylum to do things like break the swear filters, those filters were still in place. And honestly, I've never cared about whether or not the filters were there, and only ever broke them because if you didn't, someone would inevitably make a point about how you don't know how to break them. It'll kinda be a relief not having to spend the effort anymore.

And these restrictions seem to be more about images and words, not attitude. And the "no holds barred" aspect of the asylum was always more about the nature of our debates and topics than what words we used when discussing them. The distinction between that and the OOC was that we were supposed to be nice to people in OOC, so as not to scare them away. And I don't really think much of that had to do with swearing.