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  Barry Basden

  Jan 06, 05:59pm

  The fuck?

  These guys are putting up ads on my public fnaut stories. I've blocked them, but:

  1. Has fnaut been hacked or...

  2. Is it an fnaut attempt to garner revenue?

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  Barry Basden

  Jan 06, 06:42pm

  That is, I blocked it so that I can't see the ads. I doubt that blocks them for anyone else.

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  whatwouldbukowskido

  Jan 06, 06:50pm

  Would YOU create/run this site for free?

  ANYTHING that generates income for this site is a good thing.

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  whatwouldbukowskido

  Jan 06, 07:03pm

  "2. Is it an fnaut attempt to garner revenue?"

  Money must flow.

  Adults understand this.

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  Barry Basden

  Jan 06, 07:28pm

  First time I saw the ads was today. After all these years, Ausbon.

  And BTW, in case you don't know, I've created my own site for free. With a 4-figure annual award for the stuff I like best there. Sort of an editor's eye on steroids, if you will...

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  whatwouldbukowskido

  Jan 06, 07:46pm

  The ads have been here for years.

  You might/must have (inadvertently/just) experienced a change in your browser setting, re pop-ups.

  But still, for a site that benefits so many (my own writing has improved over my years here)

  I say go for it.
  MAKE money.
  That's why you get up in the morning.

  An eight-year-old kid with a paper-route in 1963 understood that.

  You do things for a purpose.

  Not everything is free.

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  Carol Reid

  Jan 06, 07:53pm

  No, but in that way-of-cliches-being-true, the best things are free. I'd teach that eight-year old to give part of that money away.

  I've had several disagreements about this very thing with some high-powered, well-off friends, and they are always exasperated with me but...

  It's great to be able to give it away. It always comes back in something even better.

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  whatwouldbukowskido

  Jan 06, 08:04pm

  But you can't generate/create/ a site as wonderful as Fnaut for free.

  Money must flow.

  Money is the life-blood.

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  Barry Basden

  Jan 06, 08:11pm

  @Ausbon.

  Well, shut my mouth. Here I been in my lil cocoon all this time. Would never click on them anyway. Still, I'm shocked. Shocked, to find out...

  http://bit.ly/1cIlAvp

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  Sally Houtman

  Jan 06, 09:30pm

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sor9GzivGbk

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  Sally Houtman

  Jan 06, 09:38pm

  For the record, I'm not bothered by the ads. We don't have to pay to play (which fwiw I would do if need be to support the site, ala Duotrope).

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  Gary Hardaway

  Jan 07, 03:27am

  The ads are annoying but I am happy to notice or ignore them as I choose. Something has to pay the bills and maybe even reward the invention and maintenance of a site I enjoy daily; a fee-based alternative or perpetual pleas for contributions would be less satisfactory.

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  Barry Basden

  Jan 07, 03:55am

  Not me. I'd rather pay in a more straight forward way. As it is now, I pay nothing and only saw the ads briefly--and by accident, it seems, when my ad blocker must have flickered.

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  whatwouldbukowskido

  Jan 07, 03:58am

  "Something has to pay the bills and maybe even reward the invention and maintenance of a site I enjoy daily"

  EXACTLY.

  In this digital age
  where everything is free
  and no one gets paid...

  artists starve.

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  whatwouldbukowskido

  Jan 07, 04:10am

  "I'd rather pay in a more straight forward way."

  Well, actually, me too.

  IF (this site)

  would return the previously-existing formatting capabilities.

  I'd definitely buck up a few buckles per month.

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  Matthew Robinson

  Jan 07, 06:33am

  I hate paying for things; they cost money. Have you seen the price of toothbrushes lately? Obscene. I was born with fingers and fingernails, they work just as well.

  Also, does anyone have an extra mirror I could borrow?

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