Ads for a day?

[Abby/Blood Offerings]

Anyone else not mind ads for a day? don't really want to waste 7 credits on just one silly day.

[David Price]

I still think they're funny. I don't know what context they're bringing up "Become a chef!" for, but it amuses me to no end.

[Webmonkey]

Yeah, there's generally no reason to spend $7 to get rid of only one day worth of ads. Enjoy the silly context sensitive googlespam peeps, and the boards will auto-apply the next batch of credits for march at midnight tonight.

[Rex Fisher]

are any of us Normal?

[Ross]

Speaking of which, Herr Webmonkey, where do we currently stand on Ad-Free Credits? i.e. How many months are we generally clear for?

Thnx!

[Webmonkey]

150 credits available.
7 credits equals a 50K block of page views.

That divides into 15 months worth of 50,000 pageviews each 30 day period, or less should we start using the boards more.

Historical data indicates that as the warmer months grow closer, both the player base and board usage will increase by approximately 25%, or until one credit will cover roughly three weeks out of the month. A second credit can then be spent for an additional 50,000 pageviews for that last week of the month.

We are doing quite well on Ad-Free credits however.

If not another dime was spent on Ad-Free credits, and even if we went over every month and spent two credits a month, we would still have plenty of Ad-Free clicks, enough for at least seven and a half months worth; till September 06.

Those who still wish to donate may, but I encourage you to donate directly to the Prop/Tip jar at the Bookkeeping table, as that cash can be used by the staff for more immediate needs. Events can be expensive to run, and in the summertime, they can be more frequent.

Feel free to ask me if you have any other questions about how Ad-Free works.

As an additional note, we could choose to spend another 7 credits per month on the ability to add attachments to posts. At least one HST has mentioned it would be nice to be able to attach spreadsheets containing game information to their rules board posts. The downside of this would be that if we don't continue to pay for that service - attachments already posted go away. Food for thought.

[Kevin K]

Attachments I give a status of "meh". There's enough of us with hosting that it seems like it shouldn't be a problem.

[Webmonkey]

Mick is in love with Excell spreadsheets (mostly because he can whip up a massive one really quick) and wants to host them in an easy, no-fuss updatable format for the purposes of doing things like tracking reknown and XP that can be easily updated each week. Attachments would serve this purpose, but if you have another solution, I'd like to hear it.

[dustinyuri]

Excel is the shiznit!
Nothing wrong with being in love with Excel.

[zanAspera]

Yay Excell. Okay, the question is how to get the spreadsheets online, viewable by players and updateable by the appropriate STs, all as easily as possible.

Attachments- Easy, easy easy. costs addfree credits.
Forum links to someone's FTP or Web host- not so easy, pretty easy, not so easy, whoever is hosting foots the bill, if there is one. So we have to see who would be willing to host them...