Do old text ads live forever?

June 8, 2005 12:44 PM

I'm seeing a textad for www.electoral-vote.com, a site that hasn't been updated since 2004. (I think.) Do ads, once bought, keep appearing forever? And if so, is that a feature or a bug?
posted by evinrude to Bugs at 12:44 PM (13 comments total)

bit of both. He bought a ton of ads and ads run for quite a while due to me keeping the server resources down and caching one ad for a minute for non-members, so the viewing counts are down and the ads last months instead of weeks.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:58 PM on June 8, 2005

I think Kerry lost.
posted by ParisParamus at 2:33 PM on June 8, 2005

Ha. I still remember how you took a month off of MetaFilter leading up to the election because you were so scared he'd win. You've proved yourself quite a capable gloater since those days. Surprised that we lefties didn't all quit MeFi when bush won? No such luck, Paris.
posted by scarabic at 3:36 PM on June 8, 2005

Turns out they are both dumb asses. [Boston.com reg. req. but worth it for the pictures]
posted by LarryC at 4:07 PM on June 8, 2005

I dunno. Loathe as I am to admit it, Bush looks pretty snappy in his picture. I'd hit it (not gay).
posted by Ryvar at 5:00 PM on June 8, 2005

I'd hit it (not gay).
Did you ever hear Bush's nickname at Yale? Lips
posted by amberglow at 6:17 PM on June 8, 2005

that photographer had to be part of the great right-wing conspiracy ... that's an awful picture of kerry
posted by pyramid termite at 6:32 PM on June 8, 2005

I think Kerry won.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 6:43 PM on June 8, 2005

I think America lost.
posted by Balisong at 8:14 PM on June 8, 2005

Word.
posted by squirrel at 8:21 PM on June 8, 2005

As if we doidn't have enough politics on the Blue.

Close this thread, Matt, before it's too late!
posted by wendell at 8:49 PM on June 8, 2005

Holy crap, it's Richard Kiel's long lost brother!
posted by Snyder at 3:32 AM on June 9, 2005

I'm not sure about the first one, but the second one is "Make-Up is Lies", by The Make-Up.

And I would advise against posting the warblog.
posted by gramschmidt at 12:34 PM on June 27, 2005