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Can you tell me why there are ads on this site in the first place.  I have been finding viruses on my pc and I think htat some may have come from some of the ads.  I can understand advertising for wow wee but you have thos advertisements that show a grey box that says, " Would you like to block junk email" or ones that say click here to block spam emails and those advertisements are the ones I here give viruses.  I am just wondering.

Eastercia...

Great question.  Thanks for asking.  As you know, Capable Networks stays in business through advertising sales revenue.  It's how we are able to bring you sites like RoboCommunity.  So, advertisement on the site will always be a part of what we do here.

We are always experimenting with new advertising partners, ad networks, and the like, which is where some of the recent ads on RoboCommunity are coming from. We have joined a new ad network that literally has thousands of ads in its rotation. We have done our best to filter out any really obnoxious ads, and continue to do so.  For instance, I have had our ad trafficking team remove 5 ads from the site just this week, because I (or another user) stumbled upon them and deemed them inappropriate or too obnoxious for the site.  One of the ones I had nuked was the obnoxious smiley "hey!" ad.

That said, there should absolutely be no viruses hidden in ANYTHING on the site.  If you discover an ad linking to malicious software or anything even remotely similar, please take a screenshot of the ad, and email it to us.  We will deal with those quickly and decisively.  We will not tolerate the presence of malicious software on the site.

Thanks for being patient with us while we experiment with these ad networks / partners.  We're doing our best to bring you the best service / community possible, and this is all part of that process.

Hello Nocturnal -

We are keeping our eyes open for all of the ads that you mentioned, and are working to resolve them.  Any duplicates that we see, such as the "smileys," will be taken care of as they rear their ugly heads!

Thanks again for staying on top of everything!

-Pete 

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Thanks.  I haven't seen the add for junk email or spam in a while.  Maybe you already got rid of it.  as for the adds you mentioned nocternal, I haven't seen any of those except for the smiley one.  I had an idea.  I am a member of another site (brainbashers.com) and it has a lot of games on it.  Normaly you see adds when you play the game but the sitee is set up so that if you give a donation of ten dollars you can reieve a cookie that removes the adds for one year.  Maybe we could use a method like that.  If you don't like the adds then you give a donation and the cookie you recieves tells the site not to show you the adds.  Then again, this site is larger than brainbashers.  Oh well, just a thought.

This was not my idea.  It is the way another site I know of works.  I think the site should remain free.  I am sure that more people than just the members of this site come and visite robo community.  I do think that if you are a member you can have the option to pay to have the adverts removed (for just you.)  This could work by having some kind of flag put on to your account that stops the adverts for a certain amount of time and then you would pay agian and the adverts would go away again.  No, I would not join such a sistem becasue the adverts do not bother me.  But is is a solution for others who hate the adverts.  Like I said, the site I got this from has it so if you pay 10 dollars you recieve a cookie that lets you "skip" the adverts page on your way to the games for one year.  BTW: There are other ways for the site to make money.  Could try having some sort of online shop that anyone can buy from to support the site.  Could sell wow wee merchendise and other things robot related.

Thanks for your feedback on this, Nocturnal - glad to hear we've been blasting the noisy ads out of the rotation.  As always, keep us in the loop if you see any more.

Pete 

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But for those who can't use firefox? 

Out of curiosity Eastercla, what do you run that FF isn't available?

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