Originally posted by: Codewiz
You miss the whole f'ing point ONCE again. Like you said. IT ADDS UP. I don't care if it is fractions of a cent or $2 per click. The simple point is that it supports the site just like subscribing does.
This is JUST a guestimation.
$30/year divided by 365 days/year= $0.08/day for a subscriber
$0.0033/click with an average of 2 clicks a day for non-subscribers.
Say we have 300 subscribers and 4700 non subscribers.
$24/day paid via subscribers
$31/day paid via non-subscribers.
Now if they lose those clicks by pissing everyone off how is that going to help. It shows that non-subscribers take A LOT more people to bring in the money for AT but he needs them nonetheless. I don't see how annoying non-subscribers is going to help when a lot will just use other means to remove the ads.
Is that SPECIFIC enough for ya?
I didn't miss the point... because you failed to make one. You are trying to make the point that "placing the ads here will run people off", correct? Well, as I stated before, everyone that claims they are leaving over this has probably posted since they said that.
Then you try to make the point that "non-subscribers are bringing in more money than subscribers", but you fail to realize what you have wrote... 300 people generate $24 a day, while 4700 generate ONLY $31. It may just be me, but I think that the bandwidth caused by the 4700 would require them to make more to be profitable. I assume you don't realize that those 4700 are causing 15.67 times the bandwidth (assuming everyone uses an equal part.) than the 300, yet they only bring in 1.29 times what the subscribers do. Hell, if the people leave, then bandwidth costs less and AT needs less money to run the site, so either way, they win. Keep in mind this is assuming that those 4700 members ALL click at least TWO ads PER DAY, which we all know won't happen, because some members don't click any at all, and some members aren't even here everyday. By my guessing, that would make both groups bring it about $24 a day, and probably less from the non-subscribers.
So your "simple point that it supports the site just as much as subscribing does" is horridly mistaken. Unless in your flawed thinking you believe that the 15 times the bandwidth is equal the 1.3 times the profit. Perhaps while your argument was trying to grasp for air you forgot that you were originally trying to argue about the ad's placement, not just having the ads altogether, because getting rid of the ads would kill any income AT gets from non-subscribers.
Now, which brings me back to MY point...
If you have nothing better to do than to complain that the precious area of your screen is being blugeoned to death by a 100 pixel wide advertisement, then do us all a favor and leave, as you said you were. Trust me, you presence appears to be NO ONE'S blessing, and if all you want to do is whine about what you are getting free, then maybe you should take some time away from here and learn a thing or two about life before you try to do that again. Having the ads on the left is beneficial to the site, whether you choose to agree or not. Removing the ads altogether is not possible because it brings in the funds which support AT. Moving them to the right would make them easy to pass up. People want it for that reason, but AT doesn't for the same reason. If you make it easy to pass them up, then they won't get any clicks at all, let alone the two per day you claim everyone will make. Just get over the ads and in a week or two they won't bother you anymore.