well null vote for me, u are like a typical malaysian people who loves to complain yet to contribute in this community, cheers

we understand your complaints, but end of the day its the ads that keep this site free. unlike almost all other high traffic sites in this country, we do not have 'other means' of sustainable income. This isn't the USA where venture capital funding is easily available either.

we can't stop you from blocking the ads or complaining about it, but if the advertisers pull out, and we're forced to shut down due to lack of funding, its the community that stands to be on the loosing end, not the advertisers.

Just for comparison sake, RM400 would cover probably about 6~7 hours of our costs. We're trying to run a sustainable community, one that will grow and expand, one that will be a focal point of the local tech community for years to come. For that, we need sustainable income, donations while very noble would not help us grow and achieve our goals.

right and what have you contributed to this site?

though i didnt do much but i'm sure most of us did help out some people in the technical section, which I do to the best that I could and I also try my best to give directions...i didn't get my post count from spamming...

and read further on of the first page ok before judging me...
finally, se7en has spoken...

wow..i didn't know this site runs up so much bills..hmm but then again wouldn't it be great if we can come up with something like that

p/s what does britney is back means?

hm....RM400 for 6~7 hours is a scary figure, that works out about RM50,000 a month just to keep this site running? If that' the case, I would rather have all the ads on the main page to keep this forum running.

agree dude..totally agree...i would rather they have it too..but not those annoying ones...

u reckon we can write a petition to Maxis or the star and ask them to tone down online advertising?

hmm if many agree to my idea, i'll start drafting the letter...

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Added on November 12, 2007, 10:25 am

=.=" tone down online advertising??
Well, I can support if it works to rid off those annoying ad.

But for the sake of truth,
I don't think it will works. It's all about marketing.
"LYN don't want our ad, nvm, we can move on to other... there's plenty of sources around the world"

Again, if this piss you off, sorry
But it's the truth.
Ad is the one that keep newspaper alive.
Ad is the one that keep TV alive.
What's more??

nope not pissed at all...am a marketing student myself and have done a research paper on maxis for my management major also...

well ads on those media is not intrusive but online it is if you get what i mean..

its not to get rid of those annoying ads but to tone it down...

so are u into..i might need another 2 or 3 more yes then i'll draft the letter...

Just click at least 1 ad per day for sake of LYN site. It's not really hard, isn't it?

You really don't need to do that.  Clicking ads for the sake of clicking ads is actually click fraud and people come down hard on that.

oops. so sorry about that statement. I should says that we do learn new stuff when we click on the ad.
E.g. the Intel ad. At least I get to know different types of CPU model/specs.

Yeah, you're right, some ads are indeed helpful, they serve a purpose actually. I don't see what's the big fuss for having ads here, it's a source of income for this site and with the number of forum members keep on growing as we speak, it shows that LYN rocks. 

If not, we can have LYN 2, dedicated for those who wants an ad free forum but every month need to pay RM100 for montly membership fees. How's that? 

did u go thru the thread?