What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #22
I've reported this SPAM.
Found 19,499 posts across 1 forum.
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #23
I hope this was a mistake...
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #24
Somebody email me when it's gone. MacNN was my top bookmark since '99. No macnn bookmark anymore. Needed an excuse to break this habit anyway.
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #25
Yeah Harmony Central was doing this, till people started manually changing said links, or added their own perverse ones.
If they don't switch it back, this could be fun.
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #26
Hate it, and it really makes posting/reading a pain.
If the owners of Macnn are not careful they will start losing people here. This marketing scheme has that ability to drive p…
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #27
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Originally Posted by iLikebeer
Somebody email me when it's gone. MacNN was my top bookmark since '99. No macnn bookmark anymore. Needed an excuse to break this habit anyw…
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #28
Im reporting every single one I see as spam and I think every user should do the same.
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #29
Hate it. Have you guys at macnn completely lost it?
The benefit of a forum is that you receive trusted information from your peers. Adding spam links into posts is a moronic thing…
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #31
from now on every post I make anything that gets spam in it im changing with a dot. Example ipod to i.pod, apple to a.pple. I am also going to send nasty emails to every advertise…
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #32
macnn.us.intellitxt.com
That's the source of the BS.
If you block that URL (wildcards don't seem to work) then you're good to go.
IE users can simply add it to the 'hosts' file…
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #33
Rest assured that we forum admins*/mods had no say in this, and consider it at least as offensive as you do. I will fight this tooth and nail. Inline advertising is something only …
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #34
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Originally Posted by brapper
YA THIS IS GAY.
Seriously, do it in the blogs if you want. But the individuals whose words are being "sponsored" are not intending to have t…
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #35
Hey, I for one LOVE this. I have seen the future, and it is intellitxt. LOL buy a dell
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #36
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Originally Posted by tooki
Do not use "gay" as an all-purpose negative. It is offensive and will get you banned if done again.
Do not use inline advertisement at all…
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #37
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Originally Posted by Kerrigan
Hey, I for one LOVE this. I have seen the future, and it is intellitxt. LOL buy a dell
But it needs a double underline!
But this is de…
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #38
Tell us how you really feel, Simon.
Don't hold back this time.
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #39
Quote:
Originally Posted by tooki
Rest assured that we forum admins*/mods had no say in this, and consider it at least as offensive as you do. I will fight this tooth and nail. …
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #40
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Originally Posted by Simon
Do not use inline advertisement at all. It is offensive and will get your forum boycotted if continued.
Tooki, you guys are in no position to …
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #41
Quote:
Originally Posted by Simon
Do not use inline advertisement at all. It is offensive and will get your forum boycotted if continued.
Tooki, you guys are in no position to …
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #42
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Originally Posted by Athens
Buddy get a ****ing life, the mods and admins have no say over what the owners do. Your bring pretty unfair! And telling some one to shut up o…
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #43
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Originally Posted by tooki
HEY! Quit it!
Did you not just see me say how I hate these ads as much as you? How I have NO control over ads, and that I will fight tooth and…
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #44
I have no idea what protest you're talking about!
But no, I won't stop you from using the formatting tools that MacNN offers.
tooki
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #45
I haven't seen any of these ads. But I agree that they're lame, the first time I see them I will complain.
And I actually like the Google ads, I've even clicked on a few of them. …
What's with these "sponsored" words showing up in our posts? — #46
Quote:
Originally Posted by tooki
I have no idea what protest you're talking about!
But no, I won't stop you from using the formatting tools that MacNN offers.
tooki
Prot…