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As a man of religion I suggest you don’t go to MGR Hasdrubahl.

Fortunately I have not a clue what this is about.

Maelinar,
Even a fewl would have realized following the discussion that I had not clicked on the link at work (8:02pm anyone?) and of course only a fewl would have not closed the link immediately if they had done so.

Pandy, I seriously don’t know how to get through to you. Now you call me out as a blatant sneak. Did it occur to you I took that strand of the conversation over there because there is where it belongs, not here?

You are a emaciated whiner. Fuck you, I hope you get fired.

The elf has a point! 🙂

boo hoo, really.

Here’s a sequence of events;

Mr Pandy is approached by his security advisor

(SA) Hello Mr Pandy, I would like to talk to you about inappropriate content over the innernet

(P) Yes, I am aware of that, I clicked a link which took me to a bad site. Once I realised that, I closed the explorer window by clicking on the red x.

(SA) No problems then, in future, be careful about the links you follow

(P) *phew*, that was close. I’m sweating at the knees! Thankfully they didn’t realise that I curiously surfed around the site for a good 30+ mins before I decided I was offended at the website.

RandomGit I saw what you wrote on MGR and the link back to this discussion. You asked if the tagline was clear: It is not. You also sneakily challenged Shambo to place cocks and c*nts all over the front page of MGR. As at this moment MGR is off line for some reason.
However, I I did laugh my head off watching the crack spider in his pimpmobile.

The taglines in the ad dude, in the ad. You have to read it if you click it, unless you are click happy.

Good to see it is interesting though. And now bonfire can keep his man happy.

Steins all round then.

I am not gay. But my dad is.

look at the upside – at least you know how to perform a blowjob and make your man happy.

It is now 87%

Randomgit, I have a very large computer screen and the first thing that popped about in my direct view was some words in bold type. It only took a brief scan to see what the article was about. Sure it is interesting, but if I had clicked on it at work, I would have been done. Ever been at the receiveing end of an email from the security officer stating that you have been logged? Also the branch head also gets a monthly report regarding people who get pinged.

As for taglines, I don’t see them. But then that could be becasue of the settings on my computer.

I love this place…

The link is mine Pandy. I apologise for not taking closer attention to the NSFW proviso and placing a direct warning other than my very carefully worded taglines.

But you would have to -read- the content to see it is ripe, it isn’t obvious at a glance. Images of the NSFW manner get buried. JB has already checked it for outward NSFW content obviously, hence why you are getting a bollocking.

Shambo wouldn’t care less what you think and usually I wouldn’t either. But seeing as how I may have made a misstep and caused JB some trouble I do apologise again to him. Not that he thinks so, so I’ll leave it at that for him to sort from here. I expect things will stay as is.

I realise you are too stupid to converse with Pandy, you’ve made that abundantly clear.

Also with limited reading comprehension.

Don’t like people who take up a free ad?

Boo Hoo.

Can you hear that sound? It’s the world’s smallest violin. And it’s playing just for you!

Yeah mate your comment that “MGR (Shambo?) makes clear in the ad that following the link is not a good idea at work” is utter bullshit. All it says under the title is “Nothing you need to know. Everything you are trying to avoid. Can you resist?” Care to explain what you meant then?

And again the ad contravenas your proviso above of:

“The one proviso is we can’t run any **content**, even an ad, that is inappropriate for the workplace”. Luckily I did not click on that link at work to see if I got pinged. Who knows what pictures that link could have had too.

If you want to pass of the ad as a joke that is your reality. If you don’t see this as a warning that an ad URI could be redirected to a site inappropriate for work, well you can sleep easy at night knowing you did society a favour.

“When I choose to give prominence to a comment I think it unsporting to personally attack the commenter for a prominence they did not choose for their comment.” Yeah still scratching my head over what was meant by that.

Wow, continued idiocy.

None of the ads is unsafe for the workplace, MGR makes clear in the ad that following the link is not a good idea at work.

The other ad is obviously a joke (obvious to non-morons).

If you stupidly question my ethics because you are a moron you can expect to get called one.

If you don’t like that don’t think we’ll miss you.

When I choose to give prominence to a comment I think it unsporting to personally attack the commenter for a prominence they did not choose for their comment. That leaves people free to attack what they said.

When you choose to come on here and make a fool of yourself by besmirching our hard earned reputations then you’ll get a very small taste of what you deserve.

That’s not a double standard, but you’re obviously incapable of comprehension.

Johnboy don’t hold back!

So you dont tolerate name calling by others as you said in a recent post but it is OK for you? What (double) standards you have.

Oh what was that you said above?: “inappropriate for the workplace”.

Humourless blithering by a moron (that’s you, moron).

And aside from that there’s the ethics of standing by the commitments we made in calling for advertisers.

That’s called ethics you noob.

You have heard of these things called jokes right?

One of those ads took me straight to a site that explained in great detail how to give a headjob. “Making Girls Run” > http://www.makinggirlsrun.com/

And what about “Looking for a Friend”?

So what was that I heard about blithering?

What are you blithering about this time?

Ah great ethical stds Eds. Links to smut and call girl services.

It needs the ad space.

Woohoo! I mailed mine off!

at last some sanity:

SMH link

Blame Monkey’s cracks me up!

And Jey is currently in the lead for clicks!

Rob de-Castello(sp?) will be most pleased as a post about his bakery in fronting the blog

i saw a perticularly stupid looking two person recumbent the other day.

or should i say a two idiot recumbent.

surely these contraptions should be banned on safety grounds, not just taste.

i have just noticed an ad for recumbent bikes!

johnboy = provocateur!

I was approached bonfire and how could I say no?

And Jey is currently in the lead for clicks!

i have just noticed an ad for recumbent bikes!

johnboy = provocateur!

ad bank…

The ads are driven off another server.

A slowdown is more likely caused by everyone re-loading the page to find their ads.

Once that novelty wears off things should get back to normal.

Mael’s is cute.

Is it just me or has Riotact slowed down, is this due to the ads?

Jey, yes 🙂

RG, thanks for that. E-mail replied. I went to the Gym 🙂

I just have to put up my URL. I’m still messing with the site.

Thanks all for the ads we’ve had so far, it’s giving us valuable experience managing them.

AD, I’d love an swf ad just to see if our engine is as good at handling them as it says it is.

Why not send in a couple if you’re getting creative?

RandomGit is a blog whore, he needs and ad for a good time comment here

hey, whats going on?
Respect ma authoritah

Hmmm, what to do about misleading advertising. Are we really to believe that Maelinar is a pretty little elf?
However I will – finally – believe Jey’s…

Check your email nyssa

lol @ the Che ad

You’re doing a PhD, Nyssa?
Awesomeness!

1. Please, no flash. Flash is evil.
2. Why don’t the url’s appear in the status bar when I hover over the ad? That’s bloody annoying.

Thanks RG 🙂

I have something, but I think it’s crap….advertising my site for my PhD topic.

Nyssa, gimme a spec, I’ll throw something together just for you.

Thanks Nyssa 🙂
Surprisingly painful to do…I don’t have the l33t skillz 🙁

Jey blogs porn. Jey is alright!

I’d like to advertise a site, but I’m shitty at that sort of thing.

I’ll get something to you jb, but it will be redo about 100 times first 🙂

Jey – loved your ad

Paul doesn’t answer my calls anymore, the utter utter slag!!

che – I still remember the furore when I told the rest of the RA crew what I thought the pronunciation of your name was at the all bar get together…

I’m thinking a panda and bamboo background, a green bottle with ‘che’ superimposed on the label, conveniently strung together in a 300 x 150 picture…

I’ll try to knock something up on the work computer – but graphically it’s sadly lacking…

I HATE MSPAINT !!!

I recommend an ad bank where all the ads are lined up like ducks on a wall, so we can see all of them at once and don’t have to refresh constantly.

Does Paul’s mouth give good man lovin’?

That Paul guy seems like a great fella. I hope you all have it in your hearts to call him (preferably between 12 and 5am) and open up to the joy and love that he can bring to your life. I did, and I feel like a whole new person!

emd – I’ve been wanting to crack down on rubbish comments for years, but other heads think its not good for us, maybe I’ll finally get the excuse I need to start converting you all to my way of thinking
only one thing stand in my way, I’m lazy

Who’s Matty Ellis?

Satisfy your curiosity and go click on the ad!

As for editorial policy, we’ve had googleads for over a year.

When writing about an advertiser the editorial team will need to disclose it.

But if you’re worried about “selling out” consider the Dendy stoush which wasn’t a very clever way to reach out to a prime potential advertiser on purely commercial terms.

Who’s Matty Ellis? The ad is a bit lacking.

oh yeah I will do up an ad for something today or tonight… is there preference anim gif over swf????

Seriously, what effect will paid advertising have on Riot-ACT content and comment policies?

For example, the bad press (ha ha) in the Canberra Times about Riot-ACT being a bunch of sexist wankers based on the comments about the assault at Summernats… will that sort of publicity, and its effect on paid advertising, result in changes to reduce the number of sexist wanker comments published here?

Thanks Special G. Dont worry, we’ll still be around to annoy you

I was going to suggest that “androgenous” was the most apt word, but then I checked the definition and discovered it didn’t mean asexual at all. :/ Dunno where I got that idea.

I haven’t copped any misconceptions for my nick – although I guess it’s too vague to even hazard a guess. 😀

Sellouts. Just after the advertising dollar. I would have expected it from Jazz but I thought JB was more of a purist.

Yeah I admit calling myself absent diane was a majorly flawed idea.. but it also has been funny at times especially copping sexist insults from randoms.

In reality though my name just means that I am absent of any diane…so its a postpregendered name.

Troll

my aspirations in life, to one day be a sellout and another is to get a years gardening leave

ahh but GnT, don’t you find a discussion about me much more interesting?
:p

I was looking forward to reading all the comments about RiotACT being a sellout …

a-gendered? Off-topic?

(as if that’s ever worried us before…)

No, I think non-gendered is more appropriate.

i think the word you are looking for is asexual, as in the name has no gender affinity.

Quite rightly too. If it weren’t so early in the morning, I’d probably have got it right 🙂

sure sure

I defer to the PhD scholar…
bow down!

seriously, it’s got nothing to do with sexuality, which is what the words bisexual imply.
It’s not a big deal. I knew what you meant. I’m just finicky.

Sorry, I defer to the PhD scholar…

Terubo, a more appropriate term would be ‘non-gendered’ name, or ‘bi-gendered’ if you must.

It’s an interesting sort of bisexual name, got a lot of us fooled. Whereas, not too much doubt about “Thumper”, “Johnboy”, “Hasdrubahl” etc. I got caught out (and flamed) by “Absent Diane” not long after joing this august club of wanton bloggers.

I nearly gave you details of gay beats in Loganshire…

oh dear

well c’mon Jey, do us up the banner and we’ll put it in there.

As for SBS, the idea is for the ads to be prominent without being disruptive.

JB, take a cue from SBS – how about inserting ads in the middle of postings/comments!

Me too. I nearly gave you details of gay beats in Loganshire…

And here I was just thinking you were gay

advertise my blog, you say….

sounds like what I really need to do is a great big ad
‘JEY IS NOT A BLOKE’

always on the go!

youre up late jb – working on the morning edition ?