Mods: If this is the wrong place for this, feel free to move it elsewhere as needed. This seemed like the best place I could find.
Dear Rocketry Forum sponsors who advertise,
I appreciate your participation in this great hobby, and I am grateful that you are sponsoring this forum. I want to support you. In fact, I have intentionally left your sponsor ads on my screen, despite the fact that I am a paid subscriber to this forum and have easy means to disable them in my account preferences. In exchange, I have a request, or maybe a "plea" is the correct word: PLEASE lay off the animations. It's maddening.
Different folks will have different thresholds of annoyance here. I'm probably a little more tolerant than most: I can handle a very *slowly* rotating set of images, if they aren't marked by high-contrast LOOK AT ME transitions. Unfortunately, that is exactly how I would describe one vendor's ad. I feel bad about it because it's a great vendor, one that I would happily do business with any time. But man oh man that ad is a huge mistake. There are also other ads which have some animation; most are far less obnoxious but still on the edge.
Each day the annoyance of seeing these ads flashing in my peripheral vision brings me closer to checking my "Disable Sponsor Ads" option. Once I do that, all the sponsors are gone from my vision forever, because once I check that box I'll almost certainly never take the trouble to go and uncheck it.
Ultimately the design of your ads is your choice. But whether to display them is *my* choice. Please be respectful of my eyeballs, and I will happily keep your ads there indefinitely.
Thanks,
Neil
Dear Rocketry Forum sponsors who advertise,
I appreciate your participation in this great hobby, and I am grateful that you are sponsoring this forum. I want to support you. In fact, I have intentionally left your sponsor ads on my screen, despite the fact that I am a paid subscriber to this forum and have easy means to disable them in my account preferences. In exchange, I have a request, or maybe a "plea" is the correct word: PLEASE lay off the animations. It's maddening.
Different folks will have different thresholds of annoyance here. I'm probably a little more tolerant than most: I can handle a very *slowly* rotating set of images, if they aren't marked by high-contrast LOOK AT ME transitions. Unfortunately, that is exactly how I would describe one vendor's ad. I feel bad about it because it's a great vendor, one that I would happily do business with any time. But man oh man that ad is a huge mistake. There are also other ads which have some animation; most are far less obnoxious but still on the edge.
Each day the annoyance of seeing these ads flashing in my peripheral vision brings me closer to checking my "Disable Sponsor Ads" option. Once I do that, all the sponsors are gone from my vision forever, because once I check that box I'll almost certainly never take the trouble to go and uncheck it.
Ultimately the design of your ads is your choice. But whether to display them is *my* choice. Please be respectful of my eyeballs, and I will happily keep your ads there indefinitely.
Thanks,
Neil