Originally Posted by Leumas
It seems like I'm just one of many that are not happy about these in-post ads. Also similar to many others, we don't mind ads to a certain degree, given it's a free forum. I also don't mind paying for a subscription either provided it's not too much.
However, I will definitely resent from paying any subscription if there's a flooding of ads on the free site just to drive people into paying subscription.
I think Randy makes an interesting point
here which has all sorts of merit.
I'm one of the voices who would gladly pay for a premium FT experience (eg, sans the ads)--it actually takes longer for me to view it now because my machine spends time trying to contact ad servers that are hostnamed out. I also understand the need to subsidize the free service that FT represents somehow.
I guess I don't have a feeling one way or another about the "ads
in posts" because I've never seen them.