JazX
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I'd like to make my case for bringing back the ignore feature of the old newstoday by appealing to your bottom line, which is usually the motivating factor in any business decision. I would imagine, that just like every other website that sells advertising space on their site in the form of banner ads, the cpc value is usually determined by the traffic your site receives. Unique page views, number of visitors, average viewing times etc.
Since this site has been too often dominated by a very small percentage of loud mouths, who contribute nothing but inflammatory posts. RARELY are they the ones answering legit design related questions etc, I find myself visiting this site less and less. And when I do, I often click around less and spend less time on each page because as soon as I start to see these jazx's, hedges, republican (the user name) etc I just leave. I am not alone, I work in a large agency, full of creatives, developers, marketeers etc who all USED to enjoy reading this site. The majority of which have now given up on qbn.com because of the very small minority of those looking to inflame rather than positively contribute to the lively collective dialogue of design help, marketing help, flash questions and on and on. We've discussed it many times at work.
Therefore, and sorry for such a long post, but I'm certain you could improve your banner ad rates were you to reinstate the ignore feature. Sooooo many more legitimately helpful people would come back (think Typographica and others), and sooo many more would feel comfortable posting legit questions and generating lively conversation and getting the help they were looking for. All these extra eyeballs only benefit your bottom line.
Please please bring back the ignore feature.
Soapbox diatribe complete.- it's too long, I know. Don't complain, just take a minute and read it.threadpost
- longest post ever!! id rather listen to JazX's crap!!
jk ;)akoni - +1.
too many assholes on this site. i talk shit with the best of them, but always try to help if i canlvl_13