posted on Jul, 17 2010 @ 04:48 AM
The advertising as a business model has brought up many issues with ATS. The ones that get me usually sit at the top of the site and if your cursor
happens to scroll across, then they suddenly open up to run some commercial or movie trailer. Really annoying!
However, I wonder if a paid subscription might be a better way to go. It might be worth polling the member base to get an opinion. For one, you would
drastically cut down on the numbers of trolls or people out to make forum mischief. The site has what, nearly 200,000 members. It would be interesting
to know how many are active in any one month and throw some numbers around.
I would pay to access quality discussion groups, just as I would pay to access quality news or intelligence reports. Food for ATS thought?
To add, that pop-up on the home page regarding video has to go. I think the media is advertised enough.
Edit for typo
[edit on 17-7-2010 by LarryLove]
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