What do y’all think about the advertising between postings now showing up on this forum?
dlb
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The undisciplined life is not worth examining.
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I accept it as part of life today: news programs, papers, magazines, sports events - you can't get away from it.
I have trained my eye to totally avoid looking at ads. If they want to spend the money when I don't look at them it's OK by me.
Frosty
"I sometimes think we consider the good fortune of the early bird and overlook the bad fortune of the early worm." FDR - 1922
The presence of the ads doesn't bother me--I've pretty much trained my eyes and brain to ignore click-through ads on any website. What's annoying is the delay that occurs somewhere deep within the bowels of the ad server; it sometimes prevents the rest of the page from displaying for several seconds.
-Steve
dlb,
What advertising?
All I see are factual messages from honest manufacturers, which are designed to help us be better woodworkers. I thought this was a public service by FWW, not advertising.
My cat ate some of that Gorilla glue before it cured. He is losing weight fast now. He can't seem to open his mouth anymore. For a while, I thought he was rabid. Lots of foam came out of his mouth after he ate the Gorilla glue. But that hardened, so he definitely wasn't rabid. I was glad to learn that. I have switched to Titebond III.
:-)
Mel
Measure your output in smiles per board foot.
My first waking thought when I wake up each morning is: "Gorilla Glue." My last conscious thought before I go to sleep at night is: "Gorilla Glue."
Other than that, the ads have no effect on me.
What do y'all think about the advertising between postings now showing up on this forum?
Until you pointed it out, I hadn't even noticed. Not too effective, I guess.
I am getting awfully tired of Gorilla Glue though. Can't they find any one else to advertise so we can have SOME variety!
Bob
At least it doesn't dance and sing and take over the screen as some ads do. I can ignore it easily enough.
SAVE THIS POST FOR ONE YEAR so I can say "I told you so".
I can ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE that, after reading these posts that we all "don't see" them, we'll have dancing gorillas advertising monkey poop (gorilla glue) in less than a year!!!!!!!!!
Well, thanks for being the one to say we can't see them.
I for one (*ahem*) notice each and every small, discrete advertisement in FWW.com. In fact (*ahem*) the smaller and more discrete the advertising, the more likely I am to read it. If the advertisements were large and conspicuous, my instinct would be to immediately close the site and never return, and refuse to ever purchase the annoyingly advertised product. Small, discrete advertisements, like those for Gorilla Brand Glue, however, cause me to immediately (and without thinking) purchase the discretely advertised product.
Absolutely! I was only KIDDING about not seeing them! I actually find they somehow get imbedded in my conciousness and I dream about the gorilla. He's running rampant in my shop and around the house taking care of all those little things I don't get to..... like glueing the toilet seat down so I don't forget to...... etc etc...
VERY EFFECTIVE !
At first I was angry and upset at having to look at them
Now?????? I'm so used to it I don't even notice them!!!!! When I saw your post, I then l "saw" them for the first time in months!!!!!!!
I find it interesting that the Gorilla Glue folks found it in their hearts to spend advertising dollars in this forum. It was only a month ago (Aug 2007) that FWW Magazine tested Gorilla Glue against other types of glue, and Gorilla Glue didn't do well at all on wood tests.
Brains?
There was this substance used in naval aviation called "Elephant snot." The less you knew about where it came from, the better.
That's funny.
The ads I see on my screen show an advertisement to Orangutan Glue.
It holds a joint every which way but loose!
It shows an ad with Clint Eastwood walking a dog and the dog fa$%ts knocking a babe off her bicycle. Ooooops, wrong chanel!
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
If it helps offset the cost and keep fees out or the cost of the pay side down, go for it Taunton. It's not bad.
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Obviously the makers of that stuff are ill informed on advertising-why could they not put a nice attractive curvy seductive gorilla there? Even a lady guerilla would be better (;)
And I suspect that Mel has been sublimely influenced by that ad to the extent of being sublimely cruel to his cat....
Philip,
Those cat-related musings of that Mel bloke are beyond a joke. I am going to dress up in a gorrilla suit (some say, suit not needed) and pay him a visit with one o' them hot glue guns. He will find hisself playing on a sticky wicket!
Then I will take his abused cat home to the ladywife, where she will ruin it with seafish and lurv. Korky will give it a bad look, though.
Lataxe, an old dog anxious to learn new tricks.
PS Korky has gone mad for the pau rosa and will not stop findin' chawin' and slaverin' on it. It started when he came across the gossamers made whilst testing that plane of yourn on a nasty bit of the stuff. Perhaps it got imbued with that fish oil you like to put on them?
Lataxe,
Did you know that "pau rosa" is Portugese for "catnip tree"? Literally, "paw of red", from their bloodthirsty denizens-- Indeed, this is the tree that jagulars love to hide in, so that, when you look up, they drop on you. "I'm l-l-l-looking down,P-P-Pooh!"
Ray, font of information
Oh Font,
After I have called on Mel in the gorilla suit, I may take him for a walk in that jungle, to leave him under the redpaw tree. The jaguar will teach him not to apply glue to is pussycat! Of course, the jaguar may be too busy sucking at a branch and drooling to instruct Mel.
On second thought, that kind of trick may be an illegal procedure.
Lataxe, just an animal.
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I am surprised that in this day and age you can make glue from gorillas as they are endangered. I have also often wondered just how hard do they have to squeeze to make bufallo sauce? And you know I know some farmers that have thousands of acres but not a dadburned one has ranch dressing growing any where on their property.
Kelso,
Yeah, and baby oil, what's up with that?
Ray
What about interstate highways in Hawaii?The undisciplined life is not worth examining.
and parking on the driveway?
and driving on the parkway?
and there is a million more.
Alan - planesaw
Philip -- Seductive gorillas? Perhaps this is a sign you should spend a little more time outside the shop.
<<why could they not put a nice attractive curvy seductive gorilla there>>Ahhh, the gorilla my dreams.
Because, I believe that a thread is limited to 9999 postings and that type of ad would surpass that limit!
Maybe someone at Taunton would like to comment as to why the ad was placed here in the first place & why they could not find another less intrusive location.
Let the threads be undefiled!!!The undisciplined life is not worth examining.
I seem to recall that someone from Taunton (Matt?) posted an explanation after we went up in collective flames over the first iteration of adds. Keeps operating costs under control, helps fund the online content we all love so much, & c.For my own part, I don't mind these nearly as much as I minded the first batch. At least the Gorilla Glue ads are in some way related to woodworking."Light the lamp, not the rat! Light the lamp, not the rat!!"
Rizzo the Rat, A Muppet Christmas Carol
A little variety maybe?
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Well, it seems based on the responses, that most of y'all don't pay much attention or if you do, you don't give it a second thought, except for a select few. So I wonder if Taunton will (1) remove this form of advertising (2) place more ads hoping that we will pay attention to at least one of them (3) do the Clinton thing (send back all ad monies and claim that they had no knowledge of anything having to do w/ Gorilla glue) (4) remove the forum and fill it w/ nothing but ads!
Do you have any other suggestions or shall we vote on this one?
Thanks,
dlb
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I vote for 5) Replace all Knots users with Gorillas.
Bob
There wasn't a #5 too choose from but ...
If anyone else has suggestions as to what Taunton can do w/ their ads and gorillas please feel free to post. I personally think that they ought to see how much traffic the ad generates and if it did not produce enough revenue for the glue people, Taunton should send all posters to this thread a bottle, of glue, of course!
dlb
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The undisciplined life is not worth examining.
Thanks a bunch (not). I hadn't noticed them.
Decades ago I learned to read the paper without looking at the advertising. Whenever I get any magazine, including Fine Woodworking, the first thing I do is go through it, pull out all the subscription postcards or other inserts, throw them away, and then read the magazine.
I don't even look at the cards. They are an absolute waste as far as I am concerned.
I will learn to look right past the ads in Knots. If I want info, I'll go look for it.
Alan - planesaw
Edited 9/21/2007 9:48 pm ET by Planesaw
As long as they are not animated, I can live with it.
[Avoid schadenfreude]
Doesn't bother me at all. Much of the time my eyeball puts it on "ignore" and goes to the next post.
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