This is why, people, this is why.

If SP ever gets to the point where it needs donations to float, I'll give Eos enough money to float for another few months. I'm sure KhainiWest; and a few others would do the same.

I could probably come up with enough to keep it up for a day. Maybe 2.

[MENTION=6702]Mute[/MENTION]; My shoes are already pretty stained

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I can't help but think this whole debacle would've been avoided, had no one gotten as worked up over a* person and the crew of people he has around him.
Maybe it's my ignorance to this whole affair, but had no one stirred the pot, then proceeded to pour in all kinds of ingredients, and toss way too many chefs to stir the stew spoon, then this messy spillage of pomegranate wouldn't be all over the floor, and especially everyone's fine chef shoes, which are surely being ever-more stained.

this has happened several times before the current drama. just that google is now being a peach and not saying what's wrong.

They follow the principles of "your content, your problem" but it really does come across more as "if you don't know what you did wrong I am not going to tell you"

It makes no sense, though. They are willing to spend the resources (employee time) to look at your site over and over as you make blind corrections, but can't be bothered to write up their findings so the process can be shortened?

this has happened several times before the current drama. just that google is now being a peach and not saying what's wrong.

yeah, and hence my suspicions at there being larger apes in the pen swinging bananas and fecal matter around. Plus the timing of it all just makes me picture those apes all gathering together and oogling over a calender, organizing and planning for the perfect day; getting their diets just right to amass the perfect portion sizes of dung, and "getting swoll" to be ready for the pomegranate-festival of flingery and dungery.

What providers have you tried so far [MENTION=2054]Eos[/MENTION];?

What providers have you tried so far Eos?

I've looked at;
Bidvertiser, Media.net, Tribal Fusion, AdOnion, ClickBook, ValueClick, Dynamic Oxygen, Kontera, Clicksor, YesAdvertising, SiteScout

I've looked at;
Bidvertiser, Media.net, Tribal Fusion, AdOnion, ClickBook, ValueClick, Dynamic Oxygen, Kontera, Clicksor, YesAdvertising, SiteScout

From what I've googled, Chitika looks okay. Same with Adversal. Are those in your queue or have you already decided they're evil™?

I was going to recommend AdZerk but they seem to be for people with monthly impressions of over 10m. Which might explain why StackExchange and Reddit use them.

AdZerk is a mess, and Adversal is on the remaining options list.

That's rather bare bones though, and wouldn't account for trying to pay content providers like Locked, who make a portion of ad revenue as incentive for the service. Or trying to have events with actual rewards.

If SP ever gets to the point where it needs donations to float, I'll give Eos enough money to float for another few months. I'm sure KhainiWest; and a few others would do the same.

I'm curious. What is the cost per month to run the forum barebones with paying Locked? (I don't really care about forum events)

I'm curious. What is the cost per month to run the forum barebones with paying Locked? (I don't really care about forum events)

Well the donations in December were probably around $100-$150 which if it's going to last until february and has enough to stash a bit of it throughout the year, I'm going to say it's probably 50-60 bucks a month

Well the donations in December were probably around $100-$150 which if it's going to last until february and has enough to stash a bit of it throughout the year, I'm going to say it's probably 50-60 bucks a month

Couldn't be that cheap, if it was that cheap I could easily give enough for us to run for an entire year and I'm not nearly as rich as you or Keith.

Use postcount for evil... let peoples' post count show up, but only if they've donated more cents than their postcount.

You got a number for how much it costs to stay afloat each month? (If disclosable)

Hadriel

So, what's the status on this?

If I had an update it'd be posted. This being the weekend answers have not been spontaneously outpouring.

For the other providers that are listed, are any of them as stingy about what content is on Southperry as Google? Trying to see (if it happens) how the rules/leniency may further change.

Use postcount for evil... let peoples' post count show up, but only if they've donated more cents than their postcount.

I must pay over $90 to Southperry to see my pount count!? So.... evil!

Nooo, reading all about this is making me an incredibly sad panda. I wouldn't ever want to see Southperry die out from something so arbitrary. While I'm not the most active users much anymore, I do love to occasionally come by and read up on drama, games, etc. I'm still good friends with a few of you guys here, and I'd hate to lose the thing that brought us together.

If it comes to it, you can certainly count me in to help keep us afloat.

I don't really post often but when I do, I make nitoken abuse jokes. I'll cut down on those. :x

I wonder how they'd react to a big banner of a pineapple on every page

I wonder how they'd react to a big banner of a pineapple on every page

If it was me, working and checking a website I'd be more frustrated over people breaking TOS than how they do it.