Adverts are important to us. They pay our operational costs (hosting, licensing etc.) and they also pay the wages for the people involved with the forum. We are aware that some people dislike adverts and that is why we offer curse premium, for only $2.50 you can get rid of the adverts and you still support us.
If you won't get curse premium and proceed block the adverts we won't ban you; it is your choice and it will always be your choice, however we hope everyone understands why we have adverts and if they really don't want to see them they would get curse premium.
There is a sort of gray line when it comes to promoting the use of adblock, if you post telling users to use adblock your post will most likely be removed, if you keep saying "use adblock", "get adblock", "who sees adverts get adblock!!" you will eventually get a formal warning, but you'll always be informally warned about this before hand. This is because it's rude and disrespectful and it's not something we want to promote.
Everyone who has been a member of this forum for a long time will know that we have never ever been about the money. The forum (and wiki) were ran at a loss for well over a year, we didn't have a single advert until August 2010, over a year after the forum and wiki were created, during that year myself and Andrew (aera) covered all costs -- mainly Andrew). The point where we added adverts was when the costs for the month had exceeded $2,500; that is a ridiculous amount of money for anyone to be spending and while we would have absolutely loved to have the forum and wiki remain ad free forever it's just not practical, at all.
Ultimately adverts are a fact of life, yes we understand that some users dislike them but we also have bills to pay. If you block adverts that's your choice, but we provide a way for you to not see them and support us too, I personally have no sympathy for people who block adverts when there are proper ways to do it, but nobody will ever be banned for using adblockhowever if you encourage users to use it after being repeatedly warned not to further action may be taken, and that is our official stance.
So, I take it this isn't even frowned upon then, because I'm really doing no harm. Thanks.
It is frowned upon. When you load a page it costs us money, adverts are used to offset that cost. Although we won't ban people for it it's still "bad" and we don't like people who do it :sad.gif:
In other words, it's on, but not functioning.
From:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/678534-can-we-have-a-clear-policy-on-adblock/page__view__findpost__p__8867152
Thanks for clearing that up.
So, I take it this isn't even frowned upon then, because I'm really doing no harm. Thanks.
It is frowned upon. When you load a page it costs us money, adverts are used to offset that cost. Although we won't ban people for it it's still "bad" and we don't like people who do it :sad.gif: