It does feel like the people who run these ads or nag for donations resent their players. "Because of YOU PEOPLE wanting to play on MY SERVERS I now need to find some way to pay for them, the nerve of you kids. Because you're too stupid to type !ads and click on ads to help me out, I will now install a plugin that forces you to look at ads."
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Nerdboy <[email protected]> wrote: > It's more the constant "they're too stupid to"/"spuf is too stupid to" > On Apr 4, 2013 2:15 PM, "Cameron Munroe" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Yeah that was uncalled for nerdboy. Just because someone has ads doesn't > > mean they don't care about there players. You should know better. > > > > Nerdboy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >Wow Frank you really don't think much of your patrons do you? > > >On Apr 4, 2013 2:02 PM, "Frank" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> I enjoy running TF2 servers, I have a decent job to support them but > me > > >> putting some ads on them so you only view when you join (this is how I > > had > > >> them setup) then why should that shame on me for trying to at least > > recover > > >> the costs of running them. I'm not talking about a profit, I'm lucky > to > > >> break even every month. I can be trusted just fine to run well managed > > and > > >> fast servers for players to play on FREE, them viewing an ad one time > > when > > >> they join for a few seconds isn't going to hurt nobody and is no > > different > > >> than television companies do with the ads. If you wish to have tags > in > > >> place then fine but tags shouldn't disqualify my servers from getting > > >> traffic be it browser or quickplay as someone else already put it most > > kids > > >> are too stupid to know how the server browser works so you have to > > depend > > >> on > > >> quickplay/match making to get traffic to your servers. You can't > expect > > to > > >> be able to advertise them on SPUF - you get instant banned for even > > typing > > >> out an IP# or name of servers so a lot of help Valve is in that > regard. > > >> > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: [email protected] > > >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Gordon > > >> Reynolds > > >> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 2:32 PM > > >> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > > >> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Mandatory Team Fortress 2 update released > > >> > > >> If people cannot be trusted to run a server for a free game without > > >> blasting > > >> users with ads then I hardly doubt they will play nice and put the > > proper > > >> tags in place informing people that they are about to blast you with > > ads. > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> 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 > -- - Gordon Reynolds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
