[Fixed] Ad System Rigged - Really Pathetic

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Well, we'd like to encourage posting, and the easiest way is this one. Your idea would be much more complicated...

Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 2:43 am (21 years, 9 months ago)

Daniel wrote:

Well, we'd like to encourage posting, and the easiest way is this one. Your idea would be much more complicated...

I had thought of this earlier, but this requires changing phpbb to great extent if we do not want adsystem to take much load from the system. Presently adsystem can handle 2 million hits per day without taking any moderate/heavy load on the server.

Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2002 3:39 pm (21 years, 8 months ago)

It's understandable that you want to encourage more postings however it seems that their is an increasing number of unjustified posts that are being made because of the ad system.
Could it be done in a fairer way ? .. Like the ad's being based on how many times you sign in to your account to read the forum, rather then how many posts you make ?

I know that this may not be possible. Just an idea ! Smile

Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 1:27 am (21 years, 8 months ago)

Richard, you may realize that nobody want to login everytime on personal comp. plus person can also logout and login again and again. As of bad posts, the bad posts are moderated and then corressponding ads for them are also not shown Smile

Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 1:30 pm (21 years, 8 months ago)

jayant wrote:

Richard, you may realize that nobody want to login everytime on personal comp.

They have to now to get their ad's shown if they wish to post. Otherwise, how do you know who's ad to show ? Razz

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 1:14 pm (21 years, 8 months ago)

Richard wrote:

They have to now to get their ad's shown if they wish to post. Otherwise, how do you know who's ad to show ? Razz

What if one logs in and out continuously ?

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2002 11:57 am (21 years, 8 months ago)

You probably already know but now theres a

Warning: mt_rand(): Invalid range: 0..0 in /var/www/vhosts/4webhelp.net/httpdocs/ads/ad.php on line 22

at the bottom of the pages

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2002 12:10 pm (21 years, 8 months ago)

yup Ben.

just awaiting for the FTP password to fix it.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

This is an ancient topic, but I was just wondering if the ad system is working all right for all of you now, as in displaying proper ads, and not your own.

Also note that I have update the ad stats page a little: http://www.4webhelp.net/forums/ads.php

Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 4:21 pm (20 years, 11 months ago)

I've just noticed a prob on the Ad stats page. In the Ad Impressions per Click, I'm getting:

Quote:

Warning: Division by zero in /var/www/vhosts/4webhelp.net/httpdocs/forums/ads.php on line 84

Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 4:22 pm (20 years, 11 months ago)

all seems to be working good for me...no problems Smile

Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 4:23 pm (20 years, 11 months ago)

Ah, suppose it might be cos no one's clicked any of my ads (only just put the ad into my profile Very Happy

)so, it could be that thats causing the prob Smile

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

SfCommand: you obviously haven't had any clicks! I never thought about that Very Happy

. It should be fixed now.

Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 4:25 pm (20 years, 11 months ago)

Ya, it's fixed now. (Looks like I just beat ya coming to the same conclusion Wink

)