That Mellow Yellow Ad

[lnx64]

Do they block the Old Spice page? Lots of shirtless guy pictures on there. And I assume the entirety of youtube is blocked, never know when you might accidentally stumble onto someone in their underwear.

It's not the picture itself, but the fact that it links to one of those placeholder pages that frequently link to virus/trojan ridden sites.

This is spot on, along with the fact they do consider the picture itself porn though.

But yes, Youtube is blocked, never seen an old spice ad or a netflix ad show up, so they probably DO block it and some other ads..

But they refuse to unblock this site because it's not "required" to do work, and only will unblock it if it's removed.

Seriously, why even argue it, the company doesn't even exist anymore, and having the ad there is dangerous when you can get a virus just by clicking on it. Someone new here may come there and not know what it is and click it. Really want that on your hands due to neglect?

 

[WizardStan]

Seriously, why even argue it

Because it's the only thing I can do. Hando is the only person authorized to remove change the boards at all and no one is really sure where he is right now. Can't change it, have to defend it poorly.
In theory I suppose EvilDragon could remove it, it is hosted on his server, but it's not actually his board.

 

[mindlord]

That's it... how much money do we have to donate to remove the ad?

 

[notaz]

Has anyone really tried getting in touch with hando, there are various contacts on his profile:
http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/user/1-hando/

He should really pass control to somebody else, but the original idea here was that the site should be console-neutral and ED, being in core OP team doesn't fit this requirement. Hell even I would agree to do it perhaps, as this site needs things like spambots taken care of, front page fixed, but people would see me pandora affiliated too I guess.

 

[migo]

I would argue that if ED is capable of removing the ad he should, for security reasons.

 

[gp32rich]

Call me unobservant and slow but I just noticed it's gone.

Someone's listening! Cheers!

 

[WizardStan]

Still seems to be there fore me.

 

[jmetal88]

Yeah, it's still there.

 

[EvilDragon]

Sorry, so much stuff to do that I didn't have time to follow the gp32x.de boards lately, will try to visit more often though.

I removed the ad, it doesn't make sense if that company doesn't even exist anymore.

It WAS the company where hando worked, that's why he put it there.

I would gladly sponsor the update of the boards and take care of SpamBots, but I only have a normal admin account.
Hando is the client at IPB, so I can't do that
I tried to contact him recently without any luck but will try again.

I also wanted to check out what to do with the site in the future. Hando doesn't have much time, but much could be done by the community here.
It could be closer integrated with a new file archive, etc.

If anyone wants to take care of the site, I've got no problem with that and I would've no problem helping out as well (if you're not too scared about me being too much involved in OPT, that is... don't think anyone would notice, as I CAN divide between a community site and an official site and behave accordingly, but I know some might think I'm subjective here).

If we can get hold of hando, I'm glad to help the whole community to work on this site, to spice it up, to make it more useful than ever before

 

[Darkknight512]

I don't mind helping in some way, I've installed PHPbb a few times and figured out the system, never actually used IP.board before though.

On another note, just bought a used Pandora 5 minutes ago