When I launched Cheerful Ghost more than three years ago I wanted to build an amazing video game community that was funded by its users. Initially I had three ideas for ways to make enough money to keep things going and one was using traditional web banner advertising. I didn't plan on this making us much money, but felt it was a good compromise to make a few bucks to offset some of our traffic costs. In a perfect world, I don't actually mind this model as it mirrors much of how traditional forms of radio and television use to fund the programs we love. With that, there have been some very interesting conversations recently about web advertising, privacy and respect...
That scrooge pic is getting a lot of use, and I love that.
But yeah man, kudos. I think this is the right direction.
The only time I noticed the ads was when I wasn't logged into the site. That's because I'm a paid member. I might not have seen them before, I do use AdBlock Plus for Chrome. Anyway, I support their removal, especially if they don't really benefit the site. I do now see the banner at the top about Starship Rubicon and I think it's cool. I'd really like to see more paid members here.
Oh! The banner changed, it has different messages!! That is cool!
I'd like to see more members too. Open to anyone that has ideas there.