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Evony Ads - you underestimate young teen males who like cleavage. Nothing, we will be platinum in a months time or so.

Sorry, but it's not really yours anymore. Tomorrow everyone's sigs will be changed to: It's still mine t and i'm going nowhere. I've said before I think the advertising trade off while silly from my perspective of applying my business degree from a university - but i can understand it. As it stands now it does not affect revenue and is a minor inconvenience for some nice perks. I'm all for bartering and this seems worth it We're going to ALWAYS keep our users in mind and our forum culture, i've fought hard to make a positive change in my time here by fighting for more freedoms for users, forums and the sort, I'm not going to piss that away for some interviews and artwork. Since july 2001 I've been Pro-Jagex and Anti-Jagex and I've played long enough to know that people including myself LOVE to challenge them on updates. (I'm still bitter about the PK system revamp years ago for RWT) but even as a negative person who occasionally loves to criticize Jagex for doing things - I really think this is being blown a bit out of proportion. We will be platinum - we will not be doing more than we are now. I cant promise the future, I dont know if Jagex has some hidden agenda or ace in the hole planned, but I do know the administration here will always cater to our users, you have kept us going since 2001 and made us what we are. We won't forget that. I'm sure this post will be overlooked in a sea of moaning and conspiracy theories and a part of me doesn't blame anyone for that, but I do think people are making a mountain out of a hill where theres no need to panic at this time. Jagex is a company, they do have some great people who work there, I've known some for awhile and can say they have people at jagex who care about the game. and I'm honored and almost flattered our users care *This* much about us. It means alot. But I do think you guys are getting your pitchforks ready a bit too soon, IF there comes a day to wield pitchforks - I'll lead the charge, but the day is not here. ~das edit: No Sal's Realm Bashing please, Sal is a great guy, i've known him since 2001, and I believe that website started as a project for one of his classes. He's a great person, and a class act, although you may not like his site for x,y or z - he's a hell of an owner who i'm proud to call a friend

Ah well, we can be mentioned in the game, Works for me. it's a stupid list because who hasn't heard of zybez? LoL.

And since 4 people pmed me (one just pmed me saying they found it and rickrolled me lol) xezalb, 3PointMan, tacodude20 , romy PM Me or N odiefor your rank

You worked with me, you can confirm i wouldn't stand for BS. C'mon Das -- this is already BS. I'm not going to argue that I don't find it petty and somewhat stupid - but this is how i rationalize it and to me it makes sense Not all fansites can be said in game, unless i am mistaken zybez is filtered and i know advertising/mentioning websites is frowned down upon greatly and is against the runescape rules depending on how much of a hardass you are when you read them. heh Basically we getting exempt from the rule of mentioning non supported sites to where our players cannot be muted or banned for casually mentioning us in game. Considering years ago players did get mutes and worse for saying tip.it - it's a small price to pay and a fair trade. Would we delete the video games forum or remove the wow thread so we could do prizes or something? No, I cant see any of us going or considering that. Do i really think they are harmed by other ads? not really, and if they feel they are harmed by a flash game ad - that certainly either makes me laugh at business ignorance or wonder if a deeper problem exists with the game that we do not know about. If you are on the internet long enough you will know about WoW, Starcraft, STO, and other games. It's fairly hard to imagine someone who has never heard of gaming found runescape without ever finding another game. As far as controversy, I still welcome it in the times and if a writer wants to push the envelope - go him. I encourage and love sensationalism writing. And lastly, yes this means no Evony ads - while i'm sure some will be disappointed - you can find massive amounts of cleavage elsewhere on the internet. :P

You worked with me, you can confirm i wouldn't stand for BS. I'm a negative nancy and don't see this move as bad, little is required of us now, little affects us due to this and although it's *Really* easy to say it's shady and toss conspiracy theories out there due to the situation, it's really not *That* bad. We will take it as we come and of course always keep our users in mind, they keep us going. always have, always will. As far as other sites I know W13 posted a somewhat similar story on zybez about competitor advertising (Except it was longer and involved other issues and was a fairly hostile post, i digress), so if it happened with us AND zybez, i'll asume it's a requirement for every fansite and from the other admins of other sites I know, i'd assume that with a high degree of confidence.

I like to play devils advocate and i'm not one to shy away from sensationalism or sharing my feelings. IF they did start to control content - I would be strongly against and VERY vocal it and would resign the moment I lost my creative control on the forums. I've dedicated a large part of my administration tenure that i can talk about on a public level to three things, Clans, Clans and user rights. No one will tell our users what they can and can't talk about. Thats how I roll. We all sort of roll that way in the term of we like control of the site we work hard on - and the fact we are still using OUR advertising networks is a sign of our determination to keep our content the way it is. Removing competitor ads allows us to be mentioned in game and on RSOF - it's not a change in revenue, so I'm not against it. Do I think it's stupid on a personal level for flash game advertisements to be removed? i'll be honest and crass and say "yes" - however it doesnt impact us revenue wise at all, benefits the users by allowing them to mention tip.it in game and on forums so it seems like a win/win to me and a small annoyance to pay to provide that benefit to you guys. ~Das

since some of the people who PMED me - found my image as well, no since in rushing to announce mine depending on who may win or may not win the other. no worries, i'll come through with one or two ranks though!

I'm at work now and on my mobile. Some of the people who pmed me were tet so we will see if i can do something wicked cool ;)

4 people found it in a 15 minute time interval of that last post Will get back to the first one later :P It was on the 2nd page of the tech and computers video sticky

I know now ^_^ Sent my entry in =D Edit: I searched every thread on the Tech and Computers board, the first page. I give up >_> So close yet so far. I said it was on the first page of threads, didn't say it was on the first page of a thread ;)

it really doesnt require much technical savvy to capture the prize.

Pink change your stufffff. You confused me, I was like wtfh >_>>>>>>>>>> Das, is that the hint you were talking about? Its not that big, because it maybe be on the first page, but it could be on page like 65 of 106 on that thread >_> Theres two hints in that actually.

The image is somewhere on the first page of a forum still...I'm not that mean...someone will win

You wanted evony to win? May I ask why? Bruce was making alot of slanderous comments and connections with no basis in fact. Do you have evidence of this or care to point out some examples? Apparently Evony was unable to prove that bruce was being slanderous. It's not Slander if you are dealing in facts

Still, jagex needs to cap the cleaning speeds G500 mouse or not Why not just add clean X and give it a jagex supported macro?

I am so on this. Ive pretty much scouted everything in this forums and still haven't found ti yet :o Why not ease up some of the difficulty? <_< I'll give a hint at midnight eastern if no one figures it out

Why swim when you can teleport.