WotC Ads

[Mark CMG]

It ads to banner impressions, but I am not sure if they are wasted. In doing the refresh, the user is moving away from a WotC ad they dislike, to some other ad that they will like more, which probably at least gets glanced at to make sure it isn't the WotC ad. This may lead to a larger number of effective impressions, rather than waste.

WotC itself, however, should be chomping at the bit to get this fixed. Anything that makes folks click away from their ad is wasting their impressions, certainly.

Adding obtuseness to your usual contrarian mode might be ladelling it on a bit thick but if anyone can make it work, I'd bank on it being you. It certainly increases the number of stances, real or imagined, with which you can disagree.

I've trimmed the gap space out of the image. The largest WotC banner should fit on 1024 screens now - but it still won't fit on 800x600 screen.

Short of turning down oversized banners or removing the EN World logo, it is about all you can do.

 

[Desdichado]

Urm.. actually I have mine set at 1024 and absolutely nothing's changed. At this very moment the thread has a side-scrolling bar on it. What'm I missing here?

 

[Desdichado]

It ads to banner impressions, but I am not sure if they are wasted. In doing the refresh, the user is moving away from a WotC ad they dislike, to some other ad that they will like more, which probably at least gets glanced at to make sure it isn't the WotC ad. This may lead to a larger number of effective impressions, rather than waste.

Not for me. I don't look at the top, I look at the bottom to see if there's a side-scolling bar or not.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Wow, that's weird. I've gotten rid of the scoll bar (thank you!). But now the ENWorld logo is on the left where it should be but the add is all the way over on the right, as if it is right justified.

Granted, absolutely not a problem at all. But it looks a bit odd. The ad still works and everything, it just appears to be right justified.

Either way, thanks for getting rid of the scrollbar for us 1024 users!

 

[Umbran]

Urm.. actually I have mine set at 1024 and absolutely nothing's changed. At this very moment the thread has a side-scrolling bar on it. What'm I missing here?

Same problem here. let me see if clearing my browser cache helps...

Update: Yep. Clearing my browser cache fixed it for me, so you may want to try it for yourself.

 

[Umbran]

Not for me. I don't look at the top, I look at the bottom to see if there's a side-scolling bar or not.

Well, folks who aren't looking at the ads are wastes of impressions, whether or not there's a side-scroll bar.

 

[Umbran]

Adding obtuseness to your usual contrarian mode might be ladelling it on a bit thick but if anyone can make it work, I'd bank on it being you. It certainly increases the number of stances, real or imagined, with which you can disagree.

I don't see what is obtuse about it.

I'm looking at a page with a WotC ad. It gives me a scroll bar I don't like. So, I click refresh until I get some other ad that doesn't give me the scroll bar - that ad is non-WotC. End result is users with eyes preferentially on non-WotC ads. I would think the advertisers other than WotC would tend to like this.

And please, if you don't like my mode of discussion, please just skip over the post rather than getting personal and insulting about it, thank you.

 

[Mark CMG]

And please, if you don't like my mode of discussion, (. . .)

Oh, but I find it charming.

 

[Dextra]

My 2 cents

Honestly, I had no idea there was a new line of minis out from WotC. I live an hour's drive away from any gaming store, and tend to only visit once/season. So having the Wizards ads will actually reach me as a consumer, and I'm thankful for 'em.

Oh yeah- and if the money they contribute towards the site means less fundraising and worrying about server costs, I'll be perfectly happy to side scroll, thank you!

 

[Desdichado]

I dunno; all those refreshes consume bandwidth. I can't imagine that that helps with fundraising and server cost issues. BTW, cleared my cache; no change.