A Message From Jim about Ads

Thanks for the update.
The ads on top haven't bothered me too much. Often they are things I have recently shopped for anyway, those must be google ads.
The ads on the bottom "Sponsored by Revcontent" seem pretty useless, the ones that say recommended for you- they are kind of trashy stuff like right now I see melania trump's tits falling out of a bustier (some old pic from her modeling/escort days) and an ad for male enhancement. Needless to say, those are not anything I have googled in my life! But since it is at the bottom I don't need to scroll past it to get to the content. I guess I could live with it but i will never ever click on that junk, and I might actually click on the upper ads.

I turned off email notifications because it's slowing down my internet connection.

Thanks for taking the time to clarify some of these issues.

Thank you for updating us.

Users could upload NSFW images

Perhaps one day we'll have them if we can find a solution to this issue.

Interesting. Thanks for the information. I disagree about the avatar issue though. As someone else said, people can upload NSFW pictures now, nothing stopping them. Most people won't do that though. I almost never saw it on IMDb, which was a much bigger site and very thinly moderated. I don't see how it would cause much, if any, lag either. They're just little pictures. The ads cause much more lag for me. I live in a rural area and have low-speed internet service. I never had any issues with avatars on IMDb. It's ads that cause me problems. I get why the ads are a necessary evil here (though I hope eventually they'll be less intrusive at least), but if we have to have the ads anyway, I don't see what more harm avatars can do.

To be honest I don't mind if we never have avatar pictures -- it was a nice touch on the old IMDb, and it's all very well on that other alternative site, but I agree that it's too easily abused by those who would upload NSFW pics.

Certain boards on IMDb were filled with that kind of trolling, and the "other site" that does have avatar pics and allows upload of pictures in the posts, too, became rampant with it.

I really don't mind if this place never has those features, I can live without avatars.

Thanks for the update, Lord Jim. The ads don't bother me and so far have been non intrusive. I do like avatars....but can live without them, as I am now (sob)

Maybe someone Jim trusts can be exclusively an "avatar mod", and look at the submissions twice a week or something to approve them. And maybe there could be a control where you can't switch avatars, so the whole process doesn't become overly burdensome.

I think the site's very well managed, so I trust the admins will go in the right direction : )
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