politcal ads

onyx'girl · 07-29-2010, 05:44 PM

As politics are banned for discussion, why am I seeing RICK FOR MI ad running? Should work both ways....

**MaggieRoseLee** · 07-29-2010, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by onyx'girl

As politics are banned for discussion, why am I seeing RICK FOR MI ad running? Should work both ways....

DISCUSSIONS were banned involving politics because of all the bloodshed, cursing, bad feelings and membership banning that resulted. It was the fact the flavor of the board was getting so mean and nasty along with trying to moderate the threads in a futile attempt to keep them open that was the problem.

The interaction and discussions were the issue, not the topics. If people could have played nice, politics would have continued to have been allowed to be discuss the way they had been allowed for YEARS previous.

onyx'girl · 07-29-2010, 05:55 PM

With all due respect, I know why the discussion threads were banned, but to have these ads running seems to be a bit on the side of greed...Is anyone else seeing ads by local politicians running between posts? Is there a limit to what will be let in ad-wise?

**MaggieRoseLee** · 07-29-2010, 06:07 PM

It's not my call but I could care less. I pretty much ignore all the ads that pop up here, can barely keep up with all the chatting I do on so many threads.

As long as we allow all politicians to post, I can ignore them all equally......

StellaSquash · 07-29-2010, 06:35 PM

ads?

firefox must really love me.

Vinnie · 07-29-2010, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by onyx'girl

Is anyone else seeing ads by local politicians running between posts? Is there a limit to what will be let in ad-wise?

I'm not seeing any political ads whatsoever. Doesn't mean there isn't any though.

Yes, there is a limit to what ads will be let in but I'm not sure what that limit is. I do know that if we catch any puppy mill ads we are to report them. Beyond that I'm not sure what further limits they'd be.

onyx'girl · 07-29-2010, 09:08 PM

I had firefox, but my computer ran slow with it, I am using Avast...Thanks for the replies MRL and Vinnie!

**shepherds** · 07-30-2010, 10:29 AM

With regards to the ads you see, they are being served by Google. One of the way Google serves ads is based on keywords that their bots scan for on a web page. You have to understand that advertisers pay Google to serve ads based on more than one specific keyword.

What that means is that while we don't have political discussions here, a politically related ad may be served based on key words other than politics (i'm guessing here but words like "family", "government", "city" would be useful keywords).

07-29-2010, 05:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
onyx'girl Crowned Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: SW, MI Posts: 17,611	politcal ads As politics are banned for discussion, why am I seeing RICK FOR MI ad running? Should work both ways.... __________________ Jane~ Kept by Onyx, Kacie and Gideon v Wildhaus aka Karlo

07-29-2010, 05:55 PM	#3 (permalink)
onyx'girl Crowned Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: SW, MI Posts: 17,611	With all due respect, I know why the discussion threads were banned, but to have these ads running seems to be a bit on the side of greed...Is anyone else seeing ads by local politicians running between posts? Is there a limit to what will be let in ad-wise? __________________ Jane~ Kept by Onyx, Kacie and Gideon v Wildhaus aka Karlo

07-29-2010, 06:07 PM	#4 (permalink)
MaggieRoseLee The Agility Rocks! Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Bushkill, PA (The Poconos!) Posts: 22,215	It's not my call but I could care less. I pretty much ignore all the ads that pop up here, can barely keep up with all the chatting I do on so many threads. As long as we allow all politicians to post, I can ignore them all equally...... __________________ MACH2 Bretta Lee Wildhaus CGC TC TQX Glory B Wildhaus NA, NJ, NF + LOL (still) "*Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde*

07-29-2010, 06:35 PM	#5 (permalink)
StellaSquash Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Maryland Posts: 343	ads? firefox must really love me. __________________ Jennifer Riley 2/25/10 Tucker (Lab) 10/10/03 plus assorted cats in different flavors

07-29-2010, 09:08 PM	#7 (permalink)
onyx'girl Crowned Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: SW, MI Posts: 17,611	I had firefox, but my computer ran slow with it, I am using Avast...Thanks for the replies MRL and Vinnie! __________________ Jane~ Kept by Onyx, Kacie and Gideon v Wildhaus aka Karlo

07-30-2010, 10:29 AM	#8 (permalink)
shepherds Administrator Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 925	With regards to the ads you see, they are being served by Google. One of the way Google serves ads is based on keywords that their bots scan for on a web page. You have to understand that advertisers pay Google to serve ads based on more than one specific keyword. What that means is that while we don't have political discussions here, a politically related ad may be served based on key words other than politics (i'm guessing here but words like "family", "government", "city" would be useful keywords).

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