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How Can We Help SI Implode?

An SI Board Since January 2001

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Emcee: Don Pueblo	Type: Unmoderated

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It's awesome! Not only do we get to see two ads every time we look at a Private Message, but the public message page has been further butchered by screwing up the font and the format of messages.

Want to send a Private Message? You can see two ads while you type! Very cool!

What we need now is suggestions from members as to what else can be loused up. I'm thinking we won't be done until this site looks like Raging Bull only worse.

There are no ads on the SubjectMarks page, no ads on the Hot Subjects page, no ads on the New Subjects page, the Create Subject page, the PeopleMarks page, the Related Subjects page, and the Profile page!

No ads on the StockTalk Search page! There are no ads on the Subject page! That's criminal!

There are only three ads on the Charts page!

Look at all that wasted ad space next to the charts! A bunch of blank white space! Awful!

Nobody looks at the chart page anyway, because it doesn't work right. But we need more ads on it, that's for sure.

To start off, I want to see a new Home Page with 50 ads. And change the background color to red. Bright red, with green text. I'd like to see ads on every single page. I want an ad on every page view. Change the font! It has to be really small. We need something that is totally impossible to read, like Allegro BT. Allegro BT Bold Italics condensed, in lime green, about the size of a grain of sand.

Slow down the servers more. It only takes ten minutes to access the Outbox from the Message Center!

Put some new pages in. Pages between the pages, like a page with ads between the Subject page and the Message page! That way, we can't even look at a message without seeing about a thousand ads. And make it slow.

Pop up ads! Yeah! Lots of pop up windows that won't go away, and fix it so you can't get off the site.

Some of those rainbow lines would be good. And frames. And some spinning things. And some blinking things. Little spinning blinking things on a black background with green and red and blue text.

And music!

Then, raise the rent! I say charge 50 bucks a month. No, wait. Charge a dollar every time we view a page and don't click on an ad.

Golly, I just love this site. It's so...so...different from everything else!

It's...CLASSIC!!

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15	Re: Personal firewalls Personal firewalls like Zone Alarm, Black Ice, etc. are	Bill Fischofer	-	1/28/2001
14	Excellent! This is a good place. Lots of good people. You'll like it.	Don Pueblo	-	1/28/2001
13	I just joined. Your board caught my eye. I don't know if I want to stick aro	livefromnewyork	-	1/28/2001
12	a friend referred me to this: zdnet.com	Don Pueblo	-	1/28/2001
11	Sound....you forgot sound. How about this, every time you change pages a new wa	Nite-Man	-	1/28/2001
10	Yeah, with ads on the page. Lots and lots of ads. And blinking spinning thingi	Don Pueblo	-	1/28/2001
9	Clearly what SI needs...is more free membership give aways.	parker_meridian	-	1/28/2001
8	What then would you be surfing if you manage to remove all the ads and run every	CVJ	-	1/28/2001
7	eva...would you prefer bologna...	10K a day	-	1/26/2001
6	Re: Ads Run, do not walk, to adsubtract.com and pick up a copy of the single be	Bill Fischofer	-	1/26/2001
5	It was a snide rhetorical question. I agree with you, sir. I wish they would s	Don Pueblo	-	1/26/2001
4	TLC, are you suggesting that we should help them? SI has always been a site o	Cisco	-	1/26/2001
3	They don't need any help, they are doing just fine on their own.	Jorj X Mckie	-	1/26/2001
2	how can one take anything serious from someone who tastes like chicken ! sheesh	Eva	-	1/26/2001
1	I have an idea ... spammers should be made to look at a whole page of ads for ev	Lola	-	1/26/2001

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