Flash-Flash-Flash... Turn The *&^&%$ Thing Off!

May we ask whose bright idea it was to put that blasted flashing subscription advertisement up, just below the Forum header bars?

Some of the quick-change trade ads are bad enough, but this is worse. It is an awful gimmick, changing about three times a second, in a sort of headache-inducing attempt at subliminal advertising.

You are not appealing to young teenagers with the concentration span of a gnat, generally, so please get rid of it.

Advertise the service yes, but can you please do so properly in a style that matches a generally fairly serious, technical forum?

It does move out of sight when you scroll down through the threads.

It's begining to look a lot like Christmas, la de da da da.

It is a bit awful.

Cheap and tacky, get rid of it !

Odd, I'm not seeing that. There's a yellow bar that changes text every three or four seconds (same rate as the Eccentric Engineering advert), but hardly intrusive

Rob

NOT NEEDED OR WANTED - GET RID OF IT ! Noel

Not the first time the ME/W forums have had flashing ads. They were quite common 10 years or so ago and someone at that time suggested a way to turn off the flashing which I implemented and it has worked ever since. I still see the underlying ad (as in this case) but not the flashing.

Trouble is I can't remember how it was done (sorry) ... other than that it was a change to the browser setup.

There may be some info in this thread if anyone wants to plod through it.

Edited By Peter Greene 🇨🇦 on 11/04/2023 22:29:39

It's working it has got your attention, that is what it us supposed to do.

It is indeed, but not so it makes us shout naughty words about the administrators.

I have an add blocker on my browser and I do not see any flashing lights or advertisement. I use Firefox and it is included in the software.

I'm with Paul Lousick on Firefox. And a Mac - abandoned MS some years ago now and never looked back. There is a learning curve but it's worth it.

Yeah .... but when I go there I don't understand it. For each mag, there are two listings in each category identical except for the price.

For anyone interested: This is all it took to insert that hideous annoyance

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… and a few seconds work is all it would take to remove or replace it.

MichaelG.

**LINK**

https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/sites/7/images/banners/me-mew-468x60-ccc-.gif

Don't go blaming us Mods and Admin. When I first saw the sample forums that we will be changing to one of the first thing I commented on was flashing and pop up adverts and said they would not be welcome.

But on behalf of Classicmags I would like to thank you for drawing a lot more clicks and attention than it would otherwise have got

It is a tad annoying and I like to moan, so It needs to go IMO.

Just because it gets alot of attention might not be a good thing, a fire engine in the street would get alot of attention and might be good news for somone ?????

DITTO. GET RID OF IT!!!

**LINK**

https://allthatsinteresting.com/chinese-water-torture

MichaelG.

The bit that got my attention, (only as a result of this thread as the add just scrolls out of view otherwise) was the "continuous monthly credit card payments" eeeeek last thing I want to be reminded of.

It's not advertising the subscription method that's the problem. We buy the magazines, after all, so being told of another method is fine.

The problem is its presentation: the extremely irritating flashing you can't always avoid simply by manipulating the screen. It's a gimmick that looks borrowed from the childish world of pop-music videos and sports-TV titles; whence it should be returned!