Greg,
I agree.
I will tolerate it by mutting my computer.
But I will tell you when ads on MLS start automatically dragging down over the entire screen momentarily forceing you to read there jargen I will leave MLS.

Besides, instead of wally world spending money on these types of ads they could save the money and put it towards the 1$ an hour bonus pay they are taking away from there employees for working on Sundays.
Glen

 

Yeah, but now you unmute for the youtube videos, and re-mute before the banner ad gets you? Gah!

I paid $$ to get rid of the ads on the sides...

Greg

 

I HATE those kinds of things too. I don't like anything that starts automatically.

I have not experienced the advert you refer to, but I am sure it would be something that would STOP me from shopping at Wal*Mart. But not without telling Wally*Whorled the reason why!

I have found one way to kill some animations which also disturb me. In the "Internet Options" (Under "Tools" or via Control Panel) there is a checkbox on the "Advanced" tab that will disable SOME animations. Under the "Multimedia" section is a checkbox labeled, "Play animations in webpages"; UNcheck that box to not allow some animations to occur. Unfortunately, it does not kill ALL animations and such, but on another forum a user has a particularly annoying animation that takes half a page and this stops it cold! I think it stops animated GIF's.

I wonder if the next entry in that list ("Play sounds in webpages") will stop the playing of sounds like what you experrienced. I just UNchecked that box too.

 

Just popped up in the upper right corner a few seconds before I posted... Wall mart $1,000 gift card...

Well, it may cause me to install an ad-blocker to my browser... but making a public thing about blocking the ads that allow Shad to make this profitable would not be nice.

So I will resist that impulse in the hopes that "talking ads" will not continue on this site.

I'm personally hoping that enough people will agree that Shad will halt any ads with an audio "output"...

Greg

 

Yup, i dont like it either,

It scared me when it came on........

Dam Walmart, always trying to advertise somewere.

And me and Semp agree on something, go figure.

Jeeez the next thing you know you i will be

sitting down at the local strip club throwin a few beers down

And givin Quarters to the Girlys

 

Funny.
I keep my noise box OFF unless I NEED to hear something.
Like googles new BS left side navigation bar.....had to have firefox with their google-killing-add-on to use google.

Of course, then there are those websites that use new, experimental software that have to have a "bug" forum to try to catch the bugs....

 

Sign me up Greg.... this one is over the line! if MLS wants more money from me in the future - this first thing I will ask is "do the banner ads still talk?" If the answer is "yes" - then Shad doesn't get another penny!

 

Shad,

While I understand the need to have advertisers to help pay the freight, having one that talks or makes sound is invading my personal space. With a banner ad I can look or not look at my discretion but with this offensive banner add that screams and overruns the music that I was listening to I find VERY OBJECTIONABLE! Pleas make this go away before you do serious harm to your web site.

 

This is not a good sign folks. Is this site in trouble? I certainly hope not. Shad ... please reconsider this deal.

 

I don't see nutin and or hear nutin honey! Greg oh boy looks like yer gonna have to get ad blocker plus and the rest of you. Hey Nick I thought you told me you already had it???????????????????? Have to use with Firefox only though!! Won't work on IE. Works great for us guys in "livestream" blocks all their and turns "crapstream" into "livestream"!! Hah LOL Just ask the ole guy Noel he'll tell ya!! We have used Firefox and ad blocker plus for over a year now!! Regal

 

Same here I have no desire to have to listen to ads each time I click on the link to MLS. There should be no ads for members, thought that was the reason to sign up??

 

Regal, I don't see or hear anything either. I don't have any special sofeware so it must be an American thing or maybe you guys have said at some point it's OK to show ads on my site/computer.

 

By far this and the screen adds pushing down the page is the most iritating thing on the internet.

I refuse to pay my first class membership if this is to be continued.

 

Posted By Dan Pantages on 08 Dec 2010 06:21 PM
Regal, I don't see or hear anything either. I don't have any special sofeware so it must be an American thing or maybe you guys have said at some point it's OK to show ads on my site/computer.



Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat????? Its not special soft wear, just an add on offered in the Mozilla site!! works great and its FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Regal

 

I don't mind Large scale related ADs in the far upper right corner. These are people, merchants, that help us advance our hobby. So far I have only heard the Walmart AD once, While the flashing Walmart AD has appeared several times ( I can't have won a $1000 gift card each time?, could I). I find the red flashing AD to be very annoying. Fortunately I can scroll down a little bit to avoid it.

I am using "Firefox" do people using IE or other browsers get this AD?

Chuck N

 

I have IE and yes, the flashing ad is in the upper right corner

But let it be known that these ads don't bother me.

I can live with them.

They're cheesy.

Reminds be of the signs you see in front of the girly bars.

 

I don't see how Walmart advances the hobby. I don''t mind the banners, but talking banners are a little offensive to me.
Paul

 

Having refreshed this page a number of times just to see what is going on, there appear to be a slew of non-train related ads in the upper right corner now. That doesn't bother me a bit, because I never notice or pay attention to them anyway. The talking ad certainly got my attention. That is undoubtedly the whole idea. Shad has to keep this site running somehow, that's understandable. But audio ads? Please not.

 

My son has been trying to get me to use firefox. I have resisted until just a few days ago. I was searching for something, so I typed in the subject in the Google search box. Instead of getting sites pertaining to the subject at hand, all I got was Gala something or other. A bunch of advertisement. Since then I have searched via firefox.

Now this nonsense. Every time I want to go on the forums, I get some voice telling me about some kind of gift or credit card crap.

I will join some others here who have stated that they will no Re-up when their subscription runs out. I know it must take considerable effort to run a site like this, but like cable television did, Shad may be resorting to advertising.

 

This as they say is the last nail in the coffin.

When this site started 10 plus years ago there were no membership fees and no advertising. As time passed membership fees were introduced, for these fees you received something tangible and worthwhile.

Then the site was upgraded and made much better, several times, and each time the membership protested that it wasn’t necessary, they didn’t like the results, and things didn’t work but damn the torpedoes full upgrade ahead, patches/fixes applied as necessary.


Next was the introduction of the advertising. The membership revolted, the ads were relegated to the non-members pages and things simmered down. Everybody thought Shad should make a little money for running this site, and I think he should, but things continued to degrade. “We will get these problems fixed soon and all will be well”, but it never really quite happens.


Now we have ads popping out of the speakers at television ad decibel levels, ads that we have paid to avoid, I might add. I wonder where the line will be drawn or even if it will.


It has become abundantly clear, at least to me, that Shad has not had any real interest in this site and or garden trains, in quite some time. This is just my opinion, based on his participation in the forums in the past few years.


I have read this thread and several people are condemning Wal-Mart for placing their ad on this forum. Are you serious? Wal-Mart is not spamming this site, they paid to place an ad here. Wal-Mart is doing what they do best, selling. And Shad is doing what he now seems to determine as his best course of action, the selling of advertising space. That is his choice. You also have a choice.


My choice is; my membership is up for renewal in January, I won’t be renewing it.

It has been a great decade, bye guys.
Rick

 

FYI, it is not a WalMart ad, but a survey company, othertimes I get LS vendors, and other times, pay colleges.

 

I dunno what I'm doing...but I'm NOT getting any banner ads on my computer when on MLS. I'm using Firefox...and I have popups disabled...but beyond that zip.

 

Oh Good Gosh and Mighty Joe Friday Your Virgin ears.


PS Speaking as John J and his Big black Hat.

 

This is not the talking one, but pretty obnoxious:

Greg

 

I normally use the Chrome browser and ended up seeing and HEARING the Walmart ad for the first time tonight. I paid for first class membership to get away from advertising silliness. I'm really unhappy with this new development!