Well feels like this is getting personal and that was never my intention. Your correct about two different perspectives. I'm a user and your a webmaster with different opinions.Tbh, not really. Realistically, it affects smaller websites much more because their advertising revenue is much smaller to begin with. Once a user has an ad blocker installed, they'll block ads everywhere indiscriminately.
Like it or not, the reality on the internet is that the advertising revenue pays for the running and operation of the websites you use unless the person running the website pays for it out of their own pocket and all the staff are volunteers. You can ask for donations, but that usually doesn't even cover the server and software expenses, let alone anything else. And the percentage of users willing to support the websites that they use with a donation to gain ad-free access is negligible and usually only limited to a few dozen regulars at best for a website like RPGWatch.
So yea, from a regular user's perspective, all ads are evil and serve no purpose whatsoever except to annoy them. From the perspective of the website owner, if everyone thought like that, they could close up shop.
Though one correction, I ran a small forum site that cost me only $50 a month. I put about three or four small ads, and that covered maybe 1/3 of the forum expense.
Look I get I do, you mentioned you have plans to implement ads and other changes as well. Now I might not like it or approve but again it's not my site, and I don't pay a dime.
Edit: Self promotional time I post a lot of written articles and videos on my forum news-thread. HiddenX is welcome to post them on the front-page for news, but rarely does.
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