Removing Ads

November 19, 2004 8:05 AM

Is it possible/good karma to turn off the adbar on the side, now that I'm one of the (mass of) elite Metafilter users? I don't want to do it in general -- paying for the existence of MeFi is something I'm quite happy to do by showing ads -- but from school I get a fair amount less bandwidth (University wireless is a mess) and every little bit I can trim out is a good thing by me.
posted by ChrisR to Etiquette/Policy at 8:05 AM (7 comments total)

Naturally, this might not even be the right place to ask this. If so, uhm... Whoops, my bad, sorry about that, and all that rot.
posted by ChrisR at 8:05 AM on November 19, 2004

what adbar?
posted by andrew cooke at 8:14 AM on November 19, 2004

Go LoFi.
posted by iconomy at 8:39 AM on November 19, 2004

I've been thinking about ditching all the ads for members. They're not performing well at all, and I doubt members ever hit them anyway. They're mostly only useful for search engine traffic on old pages. Let me see what I can do today.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:19 AM on November 19, 2004

what iconomy said. it's also a clean, nice design. and you get to see the stuff that gets deleted, too. go lofi.
posted by matteo at 11:00 AM on November 19, 2004

Ah, the LoFi, it burns the eyes!!! Its too white!

But it is nice and fast!
posted by fenriq at 3:45 PM on November 19, 2004

I removed all ads for logged in users except for that mefi textad on the front page.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:38 PM on November 21, 2004