Questionable advertising on the site

I have a problem with some of the ads on the site, and although I realize that advertisers are the ones who "pay the freight" as it were, are our values becoming so jaded that we are to allow questionable ads as if they are an acceptable and integral part of our society ? ?

One ad in particular shows up at the top of the site and shows someone looking through the cross-hairs of a rifle scope at workers in an office environment, and you are to line up the scope on a person and click the mouse to "shoot" that person, and if you are able to accomplish this feat, then you are a "WINNER ! !"

My God, is this for real ! ? ! ?

Are we so inured to voilence in our everyday world that it can be treated as a game ? ?

Another ad that shows up in the same place depicts what is apparently a teen-age boy leaning out a speeding car window and swinging a ballbat, and by a click of the mouse, you are able to assist the child in destroying a mailbox.

I can't believe that it is acceptable to use actions that receive such strict sanctions from the courts and are such a debilitating aspect of our society in such a frivilous manner as if they are of no import and are perfectly acceptable.

I am 72 years old and I don't understand.

Leonard

Ack! I have not seen those! I agree, that sounds awful.

You might want to write to a mod or something. that sounds bad. I just have to look at bush's mug..which does offend me, but not like THAT.

The best place to raise concerns like this is in our "Announcements and Feedback" forum. I'll alert the other moderators.

Originally Posted by winwin

Another ad that shows up in the same place depicts what is apparently a teen-age boy leaning out a speeding car window and swinging a ballbat, and by a click of the mouse, you are able to assist the child in destroying a mailbox.

I can't believe that it is acceptable to use actions that receive such strict sanctions from the courts and are such a debilitating aspect of our society in such a frivilous manner as if they are of no import and are perfectly acceptable.

I am 72 years old and I don't understand.

Leonard

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i agree it's disturbing! but these actions in real life do NOT recieve "strict sanctions from the court" these kids get away with a slap on the hand and at most have to pay for the mailboxes they broke...that's why society in general has begun to accept, people have relaxed too much on there jobs as parents, and we've got a world full of kids who no nothing of respect, i'm only 29 and i don't understand either except that i hear way too often people say "kids will be kids" and indeed they will but they still have to be taught right from wrong, and no one wants to do that anymore...sorry if i'm a little off subjsct but that's why people are so used to these kinds of ads...nothing is shocking anymore...it's very sad

I saw the "shoot a coworker" ad, too. Very distasteful.

If someone can do me a favor and next time the ad shows up, run your cursor over the ad (without clicking on it) look at the lower address bar on your computer on the lower left-hand side, and write down what it says. Anne needs to find the originator of the ad, not the advertiser itself in order to stop it. Please be patient with this, I know from experience that when they sneak one in on us, it does take some time to get it off the boards. It is NOT something we would typically say they could send us-

I would get the information myself, but I haven't seen the ad- so if someone does see it and can PM me the information, I would be grateful-


And Leonard, I don't think anyone is jaded. When it comes to forum ads they really do rarely get noticed. You do have the option of being a paid member which allows you to turn off the ads completely. But we do try to only run decent ads through here

MA

I suspect we're not the only ones who complained. I haven't seen the mailbox-basebal ad in days, and I've gone through a couple dozen releads without the "shoot a coworker" ad.

I must be blind because I don't notice the adds

I Checked the address, however, since its a flash document, you can't get an address, however, by clicking on it, I got this address, if this helps:

http://onlinerewardcenter.com/rd_p?p...coworkerfla&a=

edited to add the following address:
http://incentiverewardcenter.com/rd_...coworkerfla&a=

I got the same thing that Argo did, and I (reluctantly) clicked the mouse and won (?) and printed out the page.

It is the Online Reward Center telling me that I have won a Compaq Laptop.

I wonder if Compaq knows that you are rewarded with one of their units when you line up the scope sight and pull the trigger on an office worker ?

To the Moderators and the Administration:

I am very appreciative of your concern and your desire to oppose such as is being described here.

It is heartening to know that although one cannot always keep sewage from seeping under the door, that someone cares enough to clean it out quickly and forcefully.

Thank you again.

Leonard

technically, it's a paintball gun, and you are "splatting" a coworker, but yeah, I don't think it's real "family friendly"...

I won a PSP.
http://incentiverewardcenter.com/rd_...coworkerfla&a=

I am moving this thread over to Feedback where Anne and Thomas are more likely to see it.

I just saw the as you're talking about. It's a flash program and it's called Splat Your Co Workers to win a Compaq Presario.

Thanks for the feedback everyone! I don't care for violent ads either. These kind of ads would have never been approved by us if the advertiser were to contact us directly. We do work with several ad networks - the most reputable ones in the market by the way, nothing shady - so we don't get to screen each campaign before it shows up. We did set up several filters to say we won't accept campaigns that contain sexual or violent content or anything tobbaco, alchohol or gambling related. However, some ads still sneak in through the filters... I will try and locate the offending campaigns and turn them off.

And as Mary Anne mentioned, there's always the "ad free" version of the site for paying members

Originally Posted by HopeHacker

I just saw the as you're talking about. It's a flash program and it's called Splat Your Co Workers to win a Compaq Presario.

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I just saw it when I went in this thread!

I'm not sure of the media ratings for USA but there is one ad for History Swatter.
http://www.historyswatter.com/?partner=ZHxdm035

That's the link.

The ad shows scantily clad women so I wasn't too sure whether this was at all appropriate for a 13 years plus site.

And this ad stands out a lot. It's a vertical ad as opposed to a horizontal one.

Thought I'd bring it to someone's attention.

The one that I thought was kind of odd was the "Shoot the birds" ad, lol. Kind of animal unfriendly...

Loveless, thanks for pointing out the ad, but the darn pencil eraser isn't erasing the proper parts, it is cleaning out the whole darn thing ! !

Rats ! !

I see the "shoot a co-worker" ad is still running.

Leonard.