Belisarius Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I presume Sheepy made that calculus when he made this very proposal. Quote http://i.imgur.com/K3xCRAP.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiki Mod Dr Rush Posted December 15, 2015 Wiki Mod Share Posted December 15, 2015 TBH I doubt he really considered it. Quote 23:38 Skable that's why we don't want Rose involved, so we can take the m all for ourselves 23:39 [] but Mensa is the cute girl at the school dance and she's only dancing with us right now to get our friend jealous 23:39 [] If Rose comes in and gives Mensa what she wants, she'll just toss us aside and forget we ever existed 23:39 zombie_lanae yeah I do hope we can keep having them all to ourselves 23:40 zombie_lanae I know it's selfish but I want all their love 6:55 PM <+Isolatar> Praise Dio Pubstomper|BNC [20:01:55] Rose wouldn't plan a hit on Mensa because it would be !@#$ing stupid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caecus Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 So, if I embargo everyone, I wouldn't have to see ads? Quote It's a useful mental exercise. Through the years, many thinkers have been fascinated by it. But I don't enjoy playing. It was a game that was born during a brutal age when life counted for little. Everyone believed that some people were worth more than others. Kings. Pawns. I don't think that anyone is worth more than anyone else. Chess is just a game. Real people are not pieces. You can't assign more value to some of them and not others. Not to me. Not to anyone. People are not a thing that you can sacrifice. The lesson is, if anyone who looks on to the world as if it was a game of chess, deserves to lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiadon Clevae Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 To those who exclaim, "But they paid money for that and people won't see it"...It already is possible to block player ads with an ad-blocker browser extension. That is, it might already be the case that there are many players not seeing the idiotic ads some players are paying money to put up. At least with Sheepy's proposed feature, the players posting ads may be made aware of how disliked their ads are when they're bombarded with embargo notices, giving them the opportunity to adjust their behaviour if they actually want people to see the ad. I don't think it would result in people willy-nilly embargoing every player that posts ads given that it reduces your trading opportunities. I think players would only be inclined to embargo players that really do just pump out shitty ads. I also think throwing money at the game shouldn't be a free pass to throw up stupid ads. A feature like this that enables the players to say, "No, we're just going to ignore you" may be a good way to help regulate the behaviour of entitled donors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rozalia Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 To those who exclaim, "But they paid money for that and people won't see it"...It already is possible to block player ads with an ad-blocker browser extension. That is, it might already be the case that there are many players not seeing the idiotic ads some players are paying money to put up. At least with Sheepy's proposed feature, the players posting ads may be made aware of how disliked their ads are when they're bombarded with embargo notices, giving them the opportunity to adjust their behaviour if they actually want people to see the ad. I don't think it would result in people willy-nilly embargoing every player that posts ads given that it reduces your trading opportunities. I think players would only be inclined to embargo players that really do just pump out shitty ads. I also think throwing money at the game shouldn't be a free pass to throw up stupid ads. A feature like this that enables the players to say, "No, we're just going to ignore you" may be a good way to help regulate the behaviour of entitled donors. They get to see the ad at least once though unless they are ad blocking everything (and not specific urls), but I believe that may also effects flags and such too. Used to ad block a few early on (pretty much all the poor Rose ones like the potato salad), but stopped after a while. Once the Trump ads really started was when the greatness of player advertisements became clear. I can only hope Trump becomes president so we see many more ads in future, the game won't be the same without Trump. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeeeet Ronny D Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Someone convince Sparta to start posting super annoying adds so that when this gets implemented, their trade bots will have no one to trade with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Governor Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 That's cool. But it's not the bottom line of corporate advertisers that's going to hurt. It's Sheepy's bottom line. Really pretty simple: you disincentivize ads, there will be fewer of them. Ads are one of the ways Sheepy generates revenue.Sheepy doesn't deserve any amount of revenue. Sheepy deserves to be sodomized with a tire iron. Quote "You can lose a lot of soldiers but still win the game." – The Governor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rozalia Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Sheepy doesn't deserve any amount of revenue. Sheepy deserves to be sodomized with a tire iron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcKnox Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Why would someone waste their money on credits for ads then? Quote Praise Dio. Every !@#$ing day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiadon Clevae Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 They get to see the ad at least once though unless they are ad blocking everything (and not specific urls), but I believe that may also effects flags and such too. Used to ad block a few early on (pretty much all the poor Rose ones like the potato salad), but stopped after a while. Once the Trump ads really started was when the greatness of player advertisements became clear. I can only hope Trump becomes president so we see many more ads in future, the game won't be the same without Trump. I use an ad-blocker, it is possible to block player ads without blocking other features such as flags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Governor Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Who doesn't like Shifty's ads? I'll kill them. I don't like them. Quote "You can lose a lot of soldiers but still win the game." – The Governor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avruch Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Sounds fine to me, although it would be simpler just to let people block ads from specific users. If you don't want everyone to block all ads, limit blocks to 5 or something. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moreau Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Sheepy doesn't deserve any amount of revenue. Sheepy deserves to be sodomized with a tire iron. Lol Quote Signed by Sultan Moreau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caecus Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Spoiler alert. Quote It's a useful mental exercise. Through the years, many thinkers have been fascinated by it. But I don't enjoy playing. It was a game that was born during a brutal age when life counted for little. Everyone believed that some people were worth more than others. Kings. Pawns. I don't think that anyone is worth more than anyone else. Chess is just a game. Real people are not pieces. You can't assign more value to some of them and not others. Not to me. Not to anyone. People are not a thing that you can sacrifice. The lesson is, if anyone who looks on to the world as if it was a game of chess, deserves to lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Oooh! Add this! I want to embargo everyone in BK and Mensa so I don't see their stupid ads! It was like a month ago when Mensa last did an Ad... and anyway, your name is not Vosunda or seabasstion so most of us wouldn't buy from you anyway! Quote ☾☆ Warrior of Dio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buorhann Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Oooh! Add this! I want to embargo everyone in BK and Mensa so I don't see their stupid ads! Someone's feeling vulnerable... 1 Quote Warrior of Dio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfPCFQfOnLg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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