Promoted posts / “Sponsored post” advertisements
Jun 7, 2018, 4:33 pm
#4
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I am however already tired of seeing this at the rop of every listing. What happens when there are 25 of these bloody adverts posing as posts? How far down the page will we have to scroll to get to the meat of FT?
Never mind, the way IB is going it will all be adverts, and we can go and have our discussions on Facebook. IMO a bad move by IB, that is well capable of annoying your regular readership. However ... their trainset.
Feb 22, 2020, 9:51 am
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Have you used the little red triangle to report the ad to mods?
It seems mysterious how the thread was set up to appear before the forum's sticky thread(s). AFAIK this shouldn't be possible.
ADDED: This one has disappeared but now I see Visit Palm Springs at the top of the AA forum.
It seems mysterious how the thread was set up to appear before the forum's sticky thread(s). AFAIK this shouldn't be possible.
ADDED: This one has disappeared but now I see Visit Palm Springs at the top of the AA forum.
Feb 22, 2020, 9:57 am
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It looks like I responded too, but I didn't.
Now my AA forum page is showing the snoring ad again.
I wonder whether one of the AA mods was hacked as I don't see anything similar on the DL, AA, or a couple random other fora.
ADDED: If you don't see the red triangle, check the bottom of the AA page to see whether an AA mod is currently on FT and send them a PM, or send a PM to all of the AA mods. Senior mods can also help with any forum AFAIK, so you could try contacting them.
It used to be possible to see a complete list of the mods and senior mods that generally also showed who was currently logged in, but I can't find that now.
Now my AA forum page is showing the snoring ad again.
I wonder whether one of the AA mods was hacked as I don't see anything similar on the DL, AA, or a couple random other fora.
ADDED: If you don't see the red triangle, check the bottom of the AA page to see whether an AA mod is currently on FT and send them a PM, or send a PM to all of the AA mods. Senior mods can also help with any forum AFAIK, so you could try contacting them.
It used to be possible to see a complete list of the mods and senior mods that generally also showed who was currently logged in, but I can't find that now.
Feb 22, 2020, 11:37 am
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Feb 22, 2020, 11:41 am
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Unlikely of course.. more likely some clever spammer. But just like TV news stories that are actually product promotion, it is not beyond possibility that IB might consider adding more subtle advertisements to content than they currently do.