#167798 - tgyet - Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:29 am
Hello!
I am here to ask your help in my master thesis: it is about online communities, worlds, contacts as a modern form of socialization. If you have some spare time, can you fill the form which is mentioned at the end of this post?
I am very thankful for your help!
TGYET
The surveying is closed. Thank you everybody who participated in it!
Last edited by tgyet on Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:53 am; edited 1 time in total
#167799 - gauauu - Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:45 pm
Is this for real, or some sort of spam? The fact that your survey site pops up some other video website in the background made me close it immediately and stop.
#167812 - tgyet - Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:39 am
Yes this is for real. I do not know why this hosting service uses this method to promote their other site. I am very sorry this inconvenient thing. When I registered to that site there was not this popup window.
#167817 - Kyoufu Kawa - Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:27 pm
Your hosting provider, assuming you're being honest, fails.
I took your little survey anyway.
#167818 - sgeos - Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:08 pm
Free hosting works like that. I'm assuming the hosting is free. If not, switch.
#167822 - gauauu - Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:35 am
| sgeos wrote: |
| Free hosting works like that. I'm assuming the hosting is free. If not, switch. |
Free hosting doesn't have to work like that...there are plenty of places that are fairly good free hosts, without nasty bits like that, if you shop around.
#167829 - tgyet - Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:00 am
Yeah, you are right. It is my fault. It is a free provider, however as I said when I registered there was not this ad thing. The next time I will choose a better hoster.
And who filled the survey: thank you your help!
#167832 - sgeos - Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:37 pm
| gauauu wrote: |
| Free hosting doesn't have to work like that... |
Nothing is really free. "Free" hosting, "free" healthcare, etc all need to be paid for by somehow by somebody. Ad based revenue struck me as normal.
| gauauu wrote: |
| there are plenty of places that are fairly good free hosts, without nasty bits like that, if you shop around. |
Was it really that bad? I thought "oh, an ad" and closed it. I didn't even notice what it was for.
#167833 - gauauu - Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:51 pm
| sgeos wrote: |
Was it really that bad? I thought "oh, an ad" and closed it. I didn't even notice what it was for. |
Overall, you're right, I was somewhat blowing it out of proportion...it started with a slight lack of trust due to tgyet's lack of previous posts, and I unfortunately blew it up from there.
That being said, fullscreen popunder ads ARE nasty -- I don't mind a banner somewhere, or other similar ads, but that one crossed my threshold of acceptability.
Anyway, I'm doing the survey as we speak. I apologize for making such a stink.
#167834 - sgeos - Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:34 pm
| gauauu wrote: |
| Anyway, I'm doing the survey as we speak. I apologize for making such a stink. |
Don't worry about it. I think moral of the story is, test out your free hosting before presenting it to other people.