The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Yeah some of the ads are served by google and they respond based off your previous searches. So if some of you start seeing ads for things like certain medications, that's why
Since "Registered Users" contribute nothing monetarily to Blade Forums, why not eliminate them altogether. When the dust settles (say a month), see how many of them want to be here enough to become "Paid Members". After that, reinstate the "Registered Users" category and bombard that category with ads.
Just sayin
And most of those Members' names are blue.There are currently 521 users browsing this forum. (91 members & 430 guests)
Spark, one suggestion I would make is asking the registered users who will be seeing these ads to kindly disable any sort of adblock software they use for bladeforums to help support the forum without dipping into their own pockets if they choose not to purchase a membership.
I'm testing banner ads right now.
Paid members: Until testing is complete ads will display to everyone. I'm hoping to be able to get the filter for paid memberships working again after the tests are done.
Registered Users: More ads are going to show up. Enjoy!
Everyone, thanks for your support.
Spark
Kevin,
I do not mind the top banner ads. If it helps you with the site then go with it and don't worry about the filtering. My only concern is with the ads that are appearing within the individual posts. It looks like the ad is sponsored by the member and I do not want to receive a barrage of emails and PMs from people looking for all kinds of stuff. It also makes the individual posts that much harder to read; are we looking at content inserted by the member and relevant to the topic of the thread, or just advertising clutter? It is not always easy to tell.
Thanks for the good work.
n2s