Newgrounds.com — Everything, By Everyone.

Awesome! I have been playing a LOT of NG games lately and i don't think I will be distracted at all. :3

as long as you don't have any of those adds which automatically pop up when you enter the page I'm happy.

im sure it'll be fine... we've lived through worse.

I doubt another place to find ads is a positive movement Fulp.

At 8/22/07 04:26 PM, PureLionHeart wrote: I was wondering what that was. I remember I was watching a movie and was at once surrounded by Rush Hour 3.

Doesn't bother me any at least.

Ya, me too

I think it is pretty annoying because it show even with the black border,could something else be done than that?

Isn't that the worst place to put ads? I thought the point of the black borders was to improve the cinematic experience, but this just puts a big colorful distracting border around the movies. They have these on college humor and whenever I come across one I reload the movie and hope the ad doesn't come back because it's so distracting.

That's my point,i even see it under the borders

I LIKE IT!!11

Tom would it be possible to press a button that says close the ad, and the ad would disapear but the movie would stay up?
There could be like a timer like after 10 seconds or something you can x out of the ad and watch the movie with out the border.

I dunno, but somehow I think it is SLIGHTLY distracting.

At 8/22/07 06:55 PM, Meebs wrote: Tom would it be possible to press a button that says close the ad, and the ad would disapear but the movie would stay up?
There could be like a timer like after 10 seconds or something you can x out of the ad and watch the movie with out the border.

I dunno, but somehow I think it is SLIGHTLY distracting.

Well,if people start to find it too annoying,they will use the popup option to watch their movies and remove the Newgrounds page behind it,it would destroy the entire meaning of adding those ads in the background

well... i dont see them :D maybe because... yes!

:FireFox FTW!

Wish I could see them... My typing box is still laggy, I gotta minimize and drag the sides of the browser to get a faster typing speed. Work on that, then get some ads >_>

I like this idea.

While I'm not sure on the thing as a whole, but it could have other implimentations such as self promotion. For example, if Dave wanted to whore out his DVDs, he could create an ad that wraps around his next RAB.

nice more adds!

Aww I'm not seeing any ads... no fair.

Why not an option in the NG profile that allows users to turn off the ads? I know the customization options haven't been 'activated'

Of course the default would turned on. This way visitors to the site see the ads etc.

good idea whoever though of it.
not really that distracting but it makes money.

bad idea IMO. ads are distracing enough already, ugh...

More ads!? Whatever you need Tom.

Honestly it annoyed the hell out of me

Someone was complaining about these the other day in General, though I still haven't seen one myself. Do whatever you need to do Tom, we've been through worse, and I'd rather have NG be independently successful with ads than whore itself to some corporation.

i dont see it

too distracting? ah come on, try to focus in the movie, dont you have any will power....?

Hmm they still don't work for me.

yay

Tom is a pretty cool guy. Under normal circumstances, I'd probably be all narrow-minded and grumpy about advertisements, because companies are always trying to shove them down your throat. But apparently these ads help sponsor artists. That's pretty cool. I wonder if they have anybody in mind... I wonder how you get on the sponsorship candidate list...

Ads featuring mecha, Tom.

You know you want too...

At 8/22/07 04:44 PM, CHRlST wrote: sell out

I got five kids to feed!

Oh wait... That's not true... But what's wrong with getting money for doing a job that you love? Or getting money to pay artists to do what they love? That's win/win for everyone. Artists are sure to put more time and effort into their work if they're doing it full time, instead of working another job that they might not even like at all and then only getting to work on Flash in the few hours a week that they have to spare.

And besides, I think you're only a sell out if you compromise your personal beliefs for money. Newgrounds, from my perspective, has never tried to control the content of its artists.

i like the dark background!