SWM Adverts

Totally understandable.

I'm fine with this, but I think you should also add the option of a monthly paid subscription that would turn off the ads.

No problem for me... I run an ad-blocker so I won't see them.

I'll continue to donate a few bucks from time to time instead.

Shadar

No problem. And understandable.

Peace.

/K

If you need to run advertisements then run them.

Personally I was donating every month until this site wholly endorsed the "leaked" copy of the Supergirl pilot.
Thus advocating torrent and other sites that steal content from creators.

Markiehoe wrote: If you need to run advertisements then run them.

Personally I was donating every month until this site wholly endorsed the "leaked" copy of the Supergirl pilot.
Thus advocating torrent and other sites that steal content from creators.

I'm all for the adds if it keeps the site up!

I try to remember to donate every few months. I need to set reminders. I'm not sure if having the real would help. Need $x/year. Year to date: $y. (I would hope everyone would realize that getting that # higher than the 'need' is ok too.)

And I guess everyone makes their own values judgements. I viewed the "leaked" copy as just that, quoted leaked. That is it was done on purpose by the copyright holders as advertising. I didn't view downloading it as "stealing content from creators". It's not unusual for shows to release their first episode for free from various sites even when the other episodes are not.

I did however made sure I legally watched it when it came out. As long as I did that, anything I did wasn't "stealing", by any definition they didn't loose any money from me. Now, abusing a copyright (etc), yes, absolutely. I viewed content that I didn't have a legal right for at the time ... but no loss of money was involved.

Nor did I see SWM as advocating stealing from creators (in this specific case or in general). IIRC, SWM wouldn't even host a link to the torrent or allow it to be posted -- just allowed us to talk about it if we'd done so ourselves. In fact, in balance this has been one of the few sites that seems very creator friendly. We pimp movies that fit our niche from small publishers, and encourage people to buy them. There are regular posts about kick starters (etc), new comics, and other media which fit the SWM niche.

There are even a few creators who stop by here -- I would think that it's partially because doing so is good for their sales. (maybe some of them could comment.)

I'm also all for adverts and will certainly whitelist the site.

Two other complementary things you could try to raise funds:
1. having a large "please donate now" banner for a part of the year like Wikipedia does - it seems to work for them so it may work to some extent for SWM.
2. going directly to creators (of genre videos and other content) and offering them the opportunity to advertise. You could possibly offer them the opportunity to go on a feed on the home page next to SuperGirl Threads, Forum Latest and Latest Stories. They could pay an amount per video to add to the feed, and links on the feed could go straight to the videos on their websites.

It's been too long since I donated. I remedied that with a small one just now.

Would you be open to ads from small content providers or self-published authors (cough). If so, get in touch and we can talk price and specs.

The day the show was leaked Fats shut down the first time the link was posted here stating it was against SWM policy to encourage pirate sites.

Within 24 hours things were different.
Everytime Supergirl popped up on legitimate sites like You Tube the WB had it taken down.
Members here including the admins all watched it on illegal sites.

To get back to the topic at hand:
Post advertising if you have to.

Here is a question.
Many content providers basically advertise here for free by posting links to videos, comics, etc.
Would posts like those now be verbotten in favor of a paid advertising slot?

Good point Woodclaw

You should go into advertising sales.

I think also that somebody who only uses the forums to promote and doesn't contribute otherwise will find they have less weight attributed to their promo, while an advertiser wouldn't have that issue, because they are contributing financially.

Do what you need to do to keep this site going.
I am going to start donating again.

I do not condone or promote pirate sites.
And neither should SWM