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[TWR]

Dont you fill up the whole screen with ads? its getting that way.

[anneasquith]

i think the ' very regular ' Abers should pay the ed to stay in AB :)

[TWR]

Believe it or not, just a miserable bugger? I'm not, yes there has been ads but there seems to more appearing, yes the site is good & growing & getting better, you may not of heard about A.Y.N. but that became FULL of ads, the members did suggest they would contribute but the offer was taken, a lot of members came off the site & it appears that the site lost Its appeal.

[boxtops]

I don't think we need to open the ads (do we, Ed) for the mousefall to be counted?

[TWR]

Ring Tones kept coming up on my phone ( Yes ring tones are a form of ads) I did not ask for them, I did not want them, but they kept coming to the tune of £90+, If I would have wanted them I would have been prepaired to pay for them, I DO understand that YOU DO have to make the site pay, I do live in a real world, & as much as the people are going to blast me for this I would pay a reasonable fee to keep the site going, but just below this box I have an ad for insurance, Am I wrong to point out what I see?

[vivandorron]

Having had removed a number of my responses on the subject matter from other threads, I am now playing issues along the lines of Manuel in 'Fawlty Towers'........"I now nothing".

Truth is that I wish to retain my membership with AdvertBank...oops mistype....I mean AnswerBank.

Ron.

[snags]

''I now nothing''

Is that a deliberate play on Spanglish?

[vivandorron]

Further mistype....... now should read know.

Ron.

[cg51]

Wikipaedia finds it hard to get donations, and I imagine this site would have similar difficulties if people were asked to pay

[ChuckFickens]

I didn't think people would pay, I was just trying to make a point that the site needs funds from somewhere to keep it running, it doesn't run on fairy dust (well maybe the Ed does)

[EvianBaby]

I'm not paying.

Why would I when I could just join one of the many other Q&A and chat sites that remain free.

[vivandorron]

Come on Chuck.....We are talking about a respectable Bank and we don't want this one to be like those High Street ones; whose motives are suspect.

I am willing to pay an annual subscription for membership; providing it doesn't cost more than say 2-to- 3 packets of cigarette a year or a couple of bottles of plonk.

Ron.

[Zacs-Master]

anyone who thinks this site will ever convert to being run by subscriptions is delusional. Most of you are looking at it from the long term user point of view. Would you really, as a new member, go through a registration process & give your bank account details, to ask one question? The site would lose it's validity.

[craft1948]

The only good reason to have a registration subscription is that it would stop trolls registering under loads of different names............

[ummmm]

I wouldn't pay even as a regular let alone a newbie...

[Barmaid]

Well I certainly wouldn't pay! Much as I enjoy the odd drunken rant on here and swapping recipes, I don't think I want to pay to give legal advice. Although admittedly it is a new take on "legal fees".

[boxtops]

Barmaid, you could set it against tax as a professional subscription :-)

[berniecuddles]

what adverts i see none?

[chaptazbru]

The ads don't worry me in the slightest - why would they ?

[vivandorron]

bernie...I don't either when I use Chrome or Firefox but I do feel sorry for all those folk who continue with Internet Explorer as their default browser.

I am willing to put up with Static Ads but it's those damn Flashing ones which are a real pain in the arse.

Ron.

[berniecuddles]

quite right vivandron