azn_ricer Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 I am thinking instead of having all these banners and advertisements on neowin, we should organize a campaign to raise money for neowin. Neowin has near 25,000 registered members, and I think it is definately possible to raise at least $10,000 for neowin. Theory: Each of the 25,000 members donates ONE DOLLAR to neowin, 25,000 x $1 = $25,000 Neowin can get 1337 servers with that price. Heck, I think that $1 is too cheap, if donation is an option, i'd send em ten bucks myself I've been to at other sites where they have a raffle ticket sort of thing. Every dollar you donate, it is entered into a draw at the end of the month. The winner of the draw takes half of the jackpot, and the site gets the otherhalf. Even though that it is a fairly small community, they were manage to squeeze out $50 over the first weekend, and more came after that. There are approximately 200-300 active members in that community. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sphere Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 I don't see what the big deal about the banners is. They are fine by me. It's not like they are popping up all over the screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomwarren Veteran Posted April 5, 2003 Veteran Share Posted April 5, 2003 Yeah I don't mind the banners at all tbh. Yeh the flashing ones are a bit :s but soon they will be all tech related banners and it will be like any other top tech site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altezza Veteran Posted April 5, 2003 Veteran Share Posted April 5, 2003 Banners are fine with me just as long as Neowin is up at all times ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 Neowin already has "1337" servers. They are trying to supoort Invision with these ads. Its not that big of a deal. They will be tech releated anyways soon. I already clicked on some tech ones already too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildliquid Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 if you have a problem with neowins "2" ads... go and have a look around on ign.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azn_ricer Posted April 5, 2003 Author Share Posted April 5, 2003 IGN doesn't have flashing red n yellow banners saying you are a winner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdiaz2day Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 My wallet is too fragile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aco Veteran Posted April 5, 2003 Veteran Share Posted April 5, 2003 We have a good deal here, Invision PS kindly put Neowin on a dedicated server and we have a few banners in exchange. I think most people will agree that the banners are not really annoying (like popups). Also, dedicated servers are expensive and Neowin uses alot of bandwidth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altezza Veteran Posted April 5, 2003 Veteran Share Posted April 5, 2003 Yeah gotta agree with you aco. I feel that Neowin is using lots of bandwidth and in exchange they will put banner here to support dedicated servers. All I can hope is to keep Neowin up all the times and getting better and better everytime (Y) :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildliquid Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 dead right aco... neowin is huge and invision does well... its probably the least we can do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildliquid Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 and atm the side ad isnt even working... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sphere Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 and atm the side ad isnt even working... Works fine for me. It just takes a little while to display. I think we should try and make it half the file size that it is now. I'm on broadband, but I'd imagine it would take a while to load with dialup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatnipOligarchy Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 a large percent of the members of neowin dont pay for their OS, their software, their games, or their music...so i kinda doubt they would pay for a tech newspage/forum...just my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxBoy Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 I don't even notice the ads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus ^i^ Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 I didn't even notice the banners until ppl started complaining about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azn_ricer Posted April 5, 2003 Author Share Posted April 5, 2003 the thing is that these adds gives neowin like what? 1 penny for every thousand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obiwong Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 I don't even notice the ads. there are ads on neowin? :huh: ..yup i don't even notice them either ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron901 Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 you mean there are ads? :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Bourricot Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 how would you make people pay anyway? quite a large proportion of neowinians I think are kids who don't own a credit card. No online payment. I never noticed the ads either! -edit- I did notice them ads, but I thought they were part of the site decoration :woot: like the neowin sign :D never bothered to read what was on them though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 this topic has been discussed time and time again - with the same result 'Neowin will close rather than become a pay site' - sumot along those lines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Li_Lee Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 Ad's dont bother me, just glad that neowin is here ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ryan Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 i'd be more than glad to donate to NeoWin if i could, but, right now i'm broke as a joke :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 I only noticed the adds when they started flashing, thats pretty annoying, but I dont spend much time on the front page at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 They are not annoying like popups, even i am clicking every day those banners to help neowin going :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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