ANY interested Individual Members can help make this board Ad-Free.
If you go to the bottom of the page, just below the Google Search box, there is the "Click Here To Make This Board Ad-Free" :
www.proboards.com/credit-purchase.cgi?boroughvent.proboards.comYou can purchase credits that will apply to our Forum ONLY, and I can use them whenever we need them.
BUT please note... this only pays for THIS FORUM - not the other costs associated with BoroughVENT.com. I also have costs associated with the HOSTING of two BoroughVENT websites and several name reservations, etc.
My actual costs of running the site are greater than just this portion.
With that said, I have always been willing and able to underwrite all those costs, which amount to a couple hundred dollars here or there, but it would be nice to have some help
If any of you want to support the cause, you could either make donations to BoroughVENT directly (we should have the PayPal info available again soon), or if you feel more comfortable and prefer to just keep the Ad-Freedom, click on the link for this Forum.
It's kinda strange how it works though, and you may sometimes see banner ads run near the end of a month, or beginning of a month no matter how many credits we have.
I'll try to explain...
Even though we may have, let's say, 200 credits available ($200 worth in our account), I MUST USE/APPLY Credits in blocks of SEVEN (7), even if just 1 would help finish out the month.
Example:
7 Credits buys 50,000 "Page Views".
Credit use is based on Calendar Months, so let's say October 1 through 30, I apply 7 credits out of our 200, to our account.
So October 26th rolls around and I see that we're approaching 49,900 Page Views.
For the remaining 4 days of October, I could either:
a) Apply 7 more Credits ($7) to our account to remain Ad-Free for the end of the month, or
b) Let the Ads roll for 4 days
Although ALL of our money invested in the Credits REMAINS in our account from month-to-month, any credits applied to the Forum are ONLY available in the calendar month they are applied - so if I apply the 7 credit/ 50,000 views just 4 days from the end of the month, 45,000 or so would just go to waste - there is no "rollover" of credits applied.
Being prudent, I would opt to accept the Rolling Ads, and apply the credits on November 1st when they would count!
I've actually been quite pleased by the quality of the Banner Ads from this ProBoards site.
Just earlier this morning there was a PNC Bank ad, a Staples ad, and the $5.99 Domino's Pizza Special looks good. The ads we see are "targeted", meaning that the corporations can determine which markets or regions they wish to pinpoint. So far, most have been relevant.
(I figured we'd be bombarded with Viagra Ads - "Violent" HOPED we'd be bombarded with Vagisil Ads )
Hope that makes it crystal clear
