I still troll around on DSource for sale items, or interesting info, or locals that post things I could PM about. And since I have add-blocker going, I don't notice anything odd about it, except a few blank spaces in the corners here and there, etc...
I think they really went overboard with the adds. If you are going to run ads, do it in a way that doesn't interfere with your users' experience.
Today I noticed something new, that can't be blocked, and is really annoying enough that I will probably troll over there even less. There is a bot that is automatically linking key words in your post to Amazon searches.
For instance, someone mentioned turbo and inter cooler in their post, and those two words now are links to Amazon.com. In a forum of this type, when someone links something in their post, I click on it, because usually it leads to another website that is cool or interesting and on topic. Now you have to decide it the link is something the user put there, or the bot!
Annoying.
I think they really went overboard with the adds. If you are going to run ads, do it in a way that doesn't interfere with your users' experience.
Today I noticed something new, that can't be blocked, and is really annoying enough that I will probably troll over there even less. There is a bot that is automatically linking key words in your post to Amazon searches.
For instance, someone mentioned turbo and inter cooler in their post, and those two words now are links to Amazon.com. In a forum of this type, when someone links something in their post, I click on it, because usually it leads to another website that is cool or interesting and on topic. Now you have to decide it the link is something the user put there, or the bot!
Annoying.