12-14-2003, 09:47 AM
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Join Date: 10-30-2002
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Originally posted by pdaphonehome
Alan,
With the ads, I am thinking about a concept in the future to give people an option to be user-supported with an ad-free subscription. I think it might also be good in that case to allow people to attain a level of posting that would let them chose ad-free for free. It would be a choice that you could turn on or off, because some people like the ads, since they are often relevent to the content of the site, and in some cases get you discounts for purchases of accessories. There will always be a free version as it is today. That's something I'll be taking a look at once the merger is completed and the other in-progress things are completed. And of course, the mobile version doesn't have ads now.
Thanks for the comments... keep them coming. 
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You might want to look at what slashdot.org has done with user-support. They sell subscriptions as #of ad free views, rather then time limited subscriptions. This way, light users can pay less for an ad free experience then heavy users. I believe the idea was to be proportinate to the lost revenue of not showing adds to those users. They too have very stringent ad standards so free users are not overwelmed by innapropriate or overpowering ads.
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