Extremely short sighted vision there. The internet basicly ran of ad income.
Servers and services have to be funded one way or another. The same is when you watch TV, you'll get ads thrown in your face. Displaying ads in a MOTD is much less instrusive. Say you get 1 ad served every 30-45 minutes at map change compared to the amount of ads served on TV, newspapers etc etc. As long as ads are not extremely instrusive and put infront of your face every other minute there is nothing wrong with it. Not everyone runs a community where their members apparently seem to have a unlimited cashflow coming in. Sometimes you need a bit of extra money to be able to innovate and grow. Saint K. ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Russell Smith [[email protected]] Sent: 13 September 2012 08:28 To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HTML MOTDs not rendering? Running a server to try and make money is a weird prospect to me. If you meant to ask how to pay for server costs then: get a job, or build a community where your players don't mind helping to contribute. On 12.09.2012 23:12, Cameron Munroe wrote: > How else would you suggest a server make money? > > Also the issue with the video should be fixed in the new version of > pinion so it won't keep playing after you join. > > Also its not on youtube, it is hosted by the company. > > > On 9/12/2012 8:36 PM, cladiron wrote: >> No disprespect, but i disagree. >> I think theres more going on in the back end than what you think. >> I'm not going to name the server, but there is 1 i play on, and has >> that >> crappy motd ad in it. >> Even pressing the button to move on to the next window to enter the >> server, >> the youtube video will still play in the back ground till it's >> finished. >> The only think i know to do is disable the HTML in the client >> settings so >> it will not render it. >> Then the issue is fixed. Downside, it suxs to have to go to setting >> each >> time i join a server that has a video in it. >> Keep in mind, the video has to precache to play just as it does when >> looking at it threw IE or firefox. >> This precache lags players when entering the server until the video >> ends. >> Another thing that has to be considered is if the video at youtube >> is also >> under a heavy load. >> Have you ever gone to youtube and waited on a video to load, and >> have to >> reload it to play ? >> >> I just hope the admin's really think about the clients, and not >> bogging >> them down as they join the server. >> >> Before anyone jumps in and says well change servers, i like the one >> i play >> on due to my ping. >> >> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Frank <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Now this is ill informed post if I ever saw one - the ads in the >>> MOTD are >>> not causing this issue. There have been instances when they had >>> some bad >>> ads >>> but they were quick to fix it. It's not a bad thing to want to >>> recover >>> costs incurred for running well managed servers - people need to >>> stop >>> seeing >>> this as a bad thing. You only see the ads for maybe a moment then >>> you can >>> click right by them but they do help support good managed servers. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>> Carl >>> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:32 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HTML MOTDs not rendering? >>> >>> I hope this isn't for one of those really annoying HTML ads that >>> some >>> degenerate servers have been abusing their players with. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 9/12/2012 4:41 AM, Bjorn Wielens wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> This was touched on in a previous post - Does anyone know a >>>> solution for >>> MOTDs not rendering (just a gray box, not even a background/plain >>> text >>> shows). >>>> I've had this happen to me with both HTML motds and plain text >>>> contained >>> in the motd.txt file. >>>> The weird things are that: >>>> >>>> a) some people can see the MOTDs fine. >>>> b) right clicking the box and hitting 'view source' shows the HTML >>> content >>> of the correct MOTD page >>>> c) I've gotten it to show up for me exactly once. >>>> >>>> >>>> Running our servers on Linux, there's no flash content or ads in >>>> the >>> motd, >>> and they render fine in a webkit-based browser. >>>> I've tried both just the MOTD url in motd.txt as well as a META >>>> refresh >>> to >>> redirect. both have the same result. >>>> If anyone knows of a fix, I'm all ears as we're in a situation >>>> where most >>> of our traffic is passthru Quickplay, and I'd like to at least >>> inform them >>> about server rules and the existence of our other >>> servers/extended/non-tf2 >>> community >>>> Thanks! >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >>>> archives, >>> please visit: >>>> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >>> archives, >>> please visit: >>> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >>> archives, >>> please visit: >>> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
