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Originally posted by Carrie@Nov 14 2003, 08:36 PM
I'm wondering how many more boards are going to change over the weekend.
And GFY really went all-out... the post icons are ADS saucers, there's an ADS ad in every third post, the background is different, the post buttons have saucers in them...
Got some hot-headed folks over there who are NOT happy about having their names associated with that 3rd-post-advertisement thing.
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I personally think the ADS presence is tacky. I don't know the people at ADS. I haven't used their service and I haven't been to their website.
When you goto a board and the look and feel has changed to promote a company or service... I think it projects "try hard" even though it's just another form of advertising... it just seems to much. It almost seems like the company feels it lacks so much that the only way to get people to take notice is to be in their face. There are more effective, less dominant, ways of advertising that get the job done just as well.
But hey... opinions are like assholes.. everyone has one.