New Iron Maiden ad
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Topic: New Iron Maiden ad
Posted By: Evolver
Subject: New Iron Maiden ad
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 17:01
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Sure, they're listed here. But hijacking the entire home page for their ad is obnoxious. ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
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Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 17:25
| Hey, the site's gotta pay bills, sirrrrrrrrr. f**k Iron Maiden, though. |
Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 17:26
Yeah, I understand that, but Max took care of that crappy Kiss ad a while back. ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Alitare wrote:Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 17:30
| What Iron Maiden ad? All I ever get is the ad for an Amon Amarth concert. |
Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 17:37
The new Iron Maiden greatest hits CD - the one that's laughably from 1990-2010? That one. It's red with a grim reaper or some such. It's plastered all over the site when I view it. I also get the same ad for these hardcore underground death metal bands like Cause for Revelation or Haemorrhage or Black Tusk or whatever.
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Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 18:15
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I think it depends on the country where you are in. I don't see any Maidens. Anyway, don't watch horror movies at night.  ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 18:40
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Interesting enough, I did not even know they were releasing a greatest hits album until I saw it on the home page (what is this, an annual thing for Iron Maiden now???)
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 19:18
Max added those two banner ads to the front page for anything, and you're only getting Iron Maiden specifically because that's the new flavor of the month ad. They're just normal banner ads, so comparing them to the KISS ads isn't fair. I agree they're another addition to PA that's annoying and ugly, but you gotta pay the bills. I wasn't even getting that ad in that space initially.  ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 19:20
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I didn't either. Next year it'll be 'Best of the Beast II - the Blaze years feat. Bruce Dickinson' or 'Antic Hay - the rebellion' or 'Here's some more stupid stories about comic books, jet fights, and World War II'. I can't wait for their power metal recount of the battle of Anglo-Zanzibar, where one brave British soldier was (not fatally) wounded in glorious combat. Or how about their re-telling of another famous poem? I can't wait for their take on Edgar Allen Poe! As I sit here watching, weary, And my space helmet is bleary You take my life, I'll take yours too. blast your laser, I'll run you through Or something like that. |
Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 21:28
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I think it looks pretty cool. It's nice to change the scenery one in a while. ------------- http://hanashukketsu.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - Hanashukketsu |
Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 21:42
Says the thief. Go buy a Maiden album and learn some manners, freeloader. |
Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 21:58
Why not prove my actions universally erroneous, Walter? Can you scientifically and objectively prove that what you do is superior to what I do? And since when did thievery nullify one's intellect? If Albert Einstein robbed convenience stores, would atomic weapons be nullified as well? Show some goddamn consistency in your logic for once. If you're going to believe in pure hogwash, why not make it seem reasonable?
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: June 08 2011 at 22:06
Haha you said Hogwash. 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: June 09 2011 at 00:58
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>2011 >not using adblock This is just sad. Pack it in. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: June 09 2011 at 01:05
>This is not 4chan >Please don't do that I deliberately don't use Adblock (well I would have to use a competitor since I use Opera) because I actually like the sites I visit and I want to be able to afford to continue running. It doesn't matter that I'll never want to click them, just them loading counts for the payment. http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/03/why-ad-blocking-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love.ars" rel="nofollow - Ars Technica even had some drama when they temporarily blocked people using Adblock. You're not smarter if you're adblocking everything, you're just leeching. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: June 09 2011 at 01:10
>If it irritates Henry >continue doing it It's the Age of Leech sir. Are you down http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/8/18/1282145598437/insane-clown-posse-006.jpg" rel="nofollow - (with the clown) ? ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: June 09 2011 at 01:12
LOL iknowrite you think he'd learn...or is a glutton for punishment. That Iron Maiden ad is pretty crazy though |
Posted By: toroddfuglesteg
Date Posted: June 09 2011 at 04:33
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Iron Maiden is OK and the adds for them made a workmate go out and buy their latest compilation album. I will review it...... ........ But what really cracks me up with laughter is the add for the latest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemorrhage_%28band%29" rel="nofollow - Haemorrhage album Relapse Records has just released. I know the band well and their music is as much prog as........ sorry, I cannot find anything less prog than this Spanish grindcore band. Advertising that band/album is like advertising dating service girls who is seeking active, exciting men. Then again. The adds pays for the website and good on M@X for getting that add despites of it making me crack up. And good on M@X to get the Iron Maiden add which is highly relevant for ProgArchives. I may also go out and get that compilation album myself. In fact; I will. Thanx M@X. |
Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: June 09 2011 at 08:37
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It's gone now.
It's not the ad itself that bugged me. It's the widening of the page, and adding the huge picture behind that messed up the screen for me. ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: June 09 2011 at 09:02
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this is what I get
< =1.1 ="http://ad.adtechus.com/addyn/3.0/5110/1294362/0/225/ADTECH;loc=100;target=_blank;key=key1+key2+key3+key4;grp=group;misc=1307628014814">
http://adserver.adtechus.com/?adlink/5110/1294362/0/225/AdId=1755073;BnId=2;itime=628018218;key=key1+key2+key3+key4;" rel="nofollow">  -------------  
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: June 09 2011 at 09:03
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: June 09 2011 at 12:12
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Who cares...its an ad. These things appear on everything on the internet........At least its not flashing
!!! You Win!!! Click here to find out your prize!!!
Ohh and BTW..........Up the Friggin Irons!!!!
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 09 2011 at 18:15
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If you all hate it so much why don't you all pool your money together and pay Max's server costs? Or we could do away with ads altogether and make this a pay site...wadda ya think of that? Some people are so ungrateful. -------------  |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 09 2011 at 18:16
You got that right.....UP THE IRONS !  ------------- |
Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: June 09 2011 at 19:24
| I'm not ungrateful. I could care less if they had ads everywhere. And if this became a pay site I'd just stop using it. The new band information is nice, but I can find most of it myself. I can't stand most Iron Maiden, but that doesn't mean an Iron Maiden ad would bother me more than any other ad - which is none at all. Down with the Irons, up with selling out for cash, where the down boys go. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 09 2011 at 23:29
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Max ran this site ad free for as long as he could,but the bills need paid and he did what he had to do.I'd rather deal with the ads then having no PA. Not picking on you dude,but some of the posts in this thread irked me a bit.
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Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: June 09 2011 at 23:31
Why did I irk you, though? I was the first one to say the bills had to be payed.
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Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: June 10 2011 at 14:56
The ad is now under control. Thanks, Max.
I don't object to it being there.
Just that something in the big graphic that popped up behing the main page was screwing up my browser's formatting.
I'm glad that ads bring in revenue here, which is why I don't block them. But I don't like it when they cover what I'm trying to read (like the Kiss ad did), or just make the page difficult to maneuver (like this ad). ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: June 10 2011 at 16:18
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How can I use ADblock, when I use Opera ? Not trying to pick on you, Stoney, but if your box if Firefox, you have to think outside the box. Not presuming that everyone is using browser with Adblock. Anyway, even there are many sites where I would like to use some kind of ad blocking, PA is the last one where I would do it. ......and people, be glad that there are no popup ads with redirecting. They're hell. ------------- There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu  Even my |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 10 2011 at 22:09
I never said you in particular irked me.I just said some posts in this thread did without singling anyone out. ------------- |
Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: June 10 2011 at 22:23
All's well, then.
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