View Poll Results: Should political ads be shown on this website?
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Never
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81.45% |
They're OK
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14.52% |
Only if it's my candidate
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07-11-2019, 10:42
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#1
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Annapolis
Boat: O’Day 40
Posts: 209
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Let's keep politics off the forum
With respect to my fav forum, I am extremely upset to see the recent advertisements that now pop up. One of the wonderful things about C&S it that it has generally provided a respite from world affairs with politics generally limited to whether one be a fool to sail a particular brand of boat out of the sight of land, and such.
Please join me in petitioning the Site Administrators to keep ALL politics (mine included) off this site which provides so much pleasure to cruisers & sailors world wide.
Can I get a witness?
Thanks,
LouK
Annapolis
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07-11-2019, 10:58
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#2
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Lakewood Ranch, FLORIDA
Boat: Alden 50, Sarasota, Florida
Posts: 3,467
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Re: Let's keep politics (Trump & others) off the forum
I would also like this forum to be free of folks who make personal subjective judgments regarding a politician’s policies.
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07-11-2019, 11:26
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#3
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Houston
Boat: ‘01 Catana 401
Posts: 9,626
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Re: Let's keep politics (Trump & others) off the forum
I’m pretty sure the advertising is targeted. I see ads for all sorts of things that I’ve recently been researching.
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07-11-2019, 11:36
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#4
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2019
Posts: 1,636
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Re: Let's keep politics (Trump & others) off the forum
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sailmonkey
I’m pretty sure the advertising is targeted. I see ads for all sorts of things that I’ve recently been researching.
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It is targeted but it's also possible for the forum owners to turn off certain classes of advertising including excluding political ads. I'm guessing the ad network "updated" something and reset their settings because they usually do a decent job of targeting us with things we at least realistically could be interested in somehow related to cruising. Or an advertiser falsely labeled a political ad as something else to get it by the screens. Either way worth reporting and investigating, I'd want to know if I was Social Knowledge.
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07-11-2019, 11:42
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#5
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Good question
Boat: Rafiki 37
Posts: 14,138
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Re: Let's keep politics (Trump & others) off the forum
Sort of ironic given the hard line taken here towards political discussion by the members.
I voted “never”, but in fact I don’t see any ads I don’t want to. I run ad blockers so am not subjected to unwanted messaging. It makes the whole WWW a lot more palatable. I highly suggest you install one.
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07-11-2019, 11:42
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#6
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Texas
Boat: Baba 35
Posts: 381
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Re: Let's keep politics (Trump & others) off the forum
I have never seen anything political in the ads on this site but that is probably because all I care about is my boat.
Probably going to change now that I posted this.
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07-11-2019, 11:46
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#7
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: home town Wellington, NZ and Savusavu Fiji
Boat: Reinke S10 & Raven 26
Posts: 1,230
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Re: Let's keep politics (Trump & others) off the forum
OP you should add an 'I don't care' to the poll.
That is quite different to 'They're OK'.
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07-11-2019, 12:01
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#8
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Tampa, FL
Posts: 5,009
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Re: Let's keep politics (Trump & others) off the forum
My response is, who cares? I mean, really. If it upsets you that much to see an ad for a politician that you don't like, then you're taking it WAAAAY too personally (which a lot of people do seem to do when it comes to Trump). Get an ad-blocker, or just ignore them.
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07-11-2019, 12:04
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#9
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Jacksonville/ out cruising
Boat: Island Packet 38
Posts: 31,351
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Let's keep politics (Trump & others) off the forum
I would highly suggest an ad blocker.
Interesting that your getting those as they are targeted, I have never, ever seen such as you say, anywhere.
But then I avoid political discussions, sites etc like the plague.
But let me look for info on a pair of Steiner binoculars, I get those ads on every page I see on the internet, even a month later
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07-11-2019, 12:07
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#10
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Jacksonville/ out cruising
Boat: Island Packet 38
Posts: 31,351
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Re: Let's keep politics off the forum
By the way, I edited the political commentary from both your thread title and the post itself, leaving it generic.
I don’t usually do that, usually they go in the trash and you get a PM requesting you to not make political posts
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07-11-2019, 12:36
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#11
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Rock Hall, MD
Boat: Mariner 39
Posts: 693
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Re: Let's keep politics off the forum
OK, I'll go ahead and be the first to vote "They're OK." Ads, political or otherwise, must help fund the forum in some way.
Until this thread I was not really paying attention to the ads. The only one I have seen today mentioning POTUS was actually just a mortgage refinancing ad, so not really even a political ad, per se, just using politics to get attention.
As a former sole proprietor, I really struggled with the advertising aspect of running a business, because the constant onslaught of ads has taught me to tune them out. The amount of junk mail, for example, that goes directly from my mailbox to the trash bin is horrific. Who is spending all that money printing and mailing thinking it is going to help their bottom line?
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07-11-2019, 12:41
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#12
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Brisbane Australia
Boat: Schionning Waterline 1480
Posts: 1,987
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Re: Let's keep politics off the forum
They are not adds unless you look at them, if it helps the forum, go for it.
I did get a little laugh though, one of my posts in the joke thread was taken down for being political.
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Dave
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07-11-2019, 17:05
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#13
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Michigan
Boat: CHB/MT D/C Trawler, 34'
Posts: 104
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Re: Let's keep politics off the forum
Keep up the policing of politics, Trawler Forum has been ruined by it. Thank You
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07-11-2019, 17:34
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#14
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: LI Sound
Boat: Sabre 34II
Posts: 822
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Re: Let's keep politics off the forum
I haven't seen any political ads yet and I wouldn't want to see them either.
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07-11-2019, 17:40
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#15
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
Posts: 30,581
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Re: Let's keep politics off the forum
Never seen any political ads.. but then I dont visit political web sites or forums.. my ads are things like booking.com, m/bike stuff and boat stuff.
You leave foot prints and they'll follow you here.
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