Do the admins actually get money from this site?
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I wasn't necessarily responding to just you, my response was based on what they said and your questions as well. No, we do not receive money from page views, as we do not run ads.
@Raven Neither was I, that's why I said people and didn't tag you
Will you be running ads in the future though?
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i'll be blut and piss people off, no and i don't see why it'd be necessary, its basically volunteer work. you get to help out you community. it isn't like, a real job in that sense, not that administration isn't important, we're a small forum and that's not even remotely feasible
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@ghøstfacejxdi said in Do the admins actually get money from this site?:
not really i used to be a mod on here so yeah i haven't been paid for literally modding this platform.. so no mods and admin don't get paid
I dont see why we would pay a forum mod.. but no.. this is intended to be a free service and we only will likely get money from donations, users buying items etc. Although, the admins don't generally like getting money as they wish to do this to support others, not generate revenue... however, all donations are appreciated!
@Raven how do i buy stuff
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It's certainly feasible! We get over 100k forum views a month. Therefore, if we found a way to count Switch Users as valid ad traffic, we'd be rich by the end of March.
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@Shrub fr i want raven on a shirt or smth to buy
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wheres my spirit week vbucks card (the new ones)
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We're working on monetization for the forum still! We've tried ads in the past, but Google marks Switch traffic as invalid (likely due to a lack of cookies + same screen size / User agents). In other words, Switch users look like bot traffic to Google.
Shirts, other merch, or even other advertisers are still an option, and are something that we're actively looking into still. Another pathway are mobile apps for chat / a standalone "news" site frontend (which may be easier to have ads run on). Until then, we are just running it out of pocket / as an open source project.
Sign the browser petition! Or visit my site at vgmoose.dev.
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We're working on monetization for the forum still! We've tried ads in the past, but Google marks Switch traffic as invalid (likely due to a lack of cookies + same screen size / User agents). In other words, Switch users look like bot traffic to Google.
Shirts, other merch, or even other advertisers are still an option, and are something that we're actively looking into still. Another pathway are mobile apps for chat / a standalone "news" site frontend (which may be easier to have ads run on). Until then, we are just running it out of pocket / as an open source project.
@VGMoose said in Do the admins actually get money from this site?:
We're working on monetization for the forum still! We've tried ads in the past, but Google marks Switch traffic as invalid (likely due to a lack of cookies + same screen size / User agents). In other words, Switch users look like bot traffic to Google.
Shirts, other merch, or even other advertisers are still an option, and are something that we're actively looking into still. Another pathway are mobile apps for chat / a standalone "news" site frontend (which may be easier to have ads run on). Until then, we are just running it out of pocket / as an open source project.
oooooh I wanna make the concept shirt designs, hmu with a job vgmoose
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It's certainly feasible! We get over 100k forum views a month. Therefore, if we found a way to count Switch Users as valid ad traffic, we'd be rich by the end of March.
@Raven put ads and im boycotting gng
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what would happen if there were advertisements, but someone was assigned to constantly look at ads or just have their computer open to ads? would that be constant revenue?
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what would happen if there were advertisements, but someone was assigned to constantly look at ads or just have their computer open to ads? would that be constant revenue?
@NightmareKing Google would light your AdSense account on fire, I bet a lot of large portion of their job is just detecting false traffic: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/48182
@notacc0rd Last time we ran ads, we had a group for users that wanted ad block, probably we'd do something similar: https://browsedns.net/topic/5174/new-group-for-hiding-bdns-ads-on-the-forum
Sign the browser petition! Or visit my site at vgmoose.dev.
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@NightmareKing Google would light your AdSense account on fire, I bet a lot of large portion of their job is just detecting false traffic: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/48182
@notacc0rd Last time we ran ads, we had a group for users that wanted ad block, probably we'd do something similar: https://browsedns.net/topic/5174/new-group-for-hiding-bdns-ads-on-the-forum
@VGMoose Our leader hath returned hooray!
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all hail our leader the almighty vgmoose king of browsedns
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all hail our leader the almighty vgmoose king of browsedns
@ghøstfacejxdi All hail VGMoose
