Letsrun site administrators - here are screenshots of your ads messing up the posts

Now this is just silly. Here is a screenshot of ads covering up posts getting covered up by posts. #inception

goo.gl/rV9lUX

I spoke too soon. It gets sillier :p

Ads covering ads covering ads covering posts.

http://goo.gl/47FTaW

Does this explain why you got so much pushback on your "please stop using adblock" thread a few months ago?

Deer BrosJo: wrote:

Does this explain why you got so much pushback on your "please stop using adblock" thread a few months ago?

So I'm not the only person seeing this?

Same thing here. Been going on for a long time, and it's not fun. Ads cut off the right side of everyone's post.

yes it is very annoying

Interesting to see if we get a response from LetsRun staff here.

They were adamant their advertising platform did not interfere with user experience.

I have never stopped using an ad blocker.

Yes it's annoying. Even worse are the adds that take over the entire screen and tell me I'm a lucky winner. No way to recover other than hit the back arrow.

I'm using chrome on an iPhone.

stats.gangsta_the_real_1 wrote:

As mentioned in the "Trackbot vs stats.gangsta" thread, your ads are covering up the posts. I'm using Chrome on a mobile device.

A quote from that thread:

"Also, the ads are interfering with a lot of the posts (on the right side, and interrupting within the body of the post). I took some screenshots. Instead of inserting ads within posts, have you thought about making the ads as posts themselves? Or at least ensuring that the ads come at the END of the post instead of in the middle of a sentence. This is how I've seen it done on other forums."

Screenshots:

http://goo.gl/jv22Qghttp://goo.gl/6tclsc

Please explain:

1) Why are you browsing in incognito mode? To hide your porn websites?

2) Why don't you use Firefox and install Adblock?

3) Why are you visiting LRC instead of RunnersWorld if you are a 8 minute mile runner?

trc wrote:

Please explain:

1) Why are you browsing in incognito mode? To hide your porn websites?

2) Why don't you use Firefox and install Adblock?

3) Why are you visiting LRC instead of RunnersWorld if you are a 8 minute mile runner?

1) Incognito mode prevents history and searches from being saved. Otherwise, I'd get a bunch of entry suggestions in search boxes and in the url box. It also prevents my account usernames and form entries from being filled in (I think?). I don't like those features on a smaller screen or with sensitive information (usernames, etc). Sure, some of those things can be changed in the settings, but why bother with that when simply using Incognito mode solves all of those problems in 2 or fewer clicks?

2) I don't like Firefox as much as Chrome. I don't want to install AdBlock. I am not against ads.

3) I am not an 8:00 miler. Can I not visit both Runnersworld and Letsrun? Why does it have to be a choice?

2) If you aren't against ads, then don't complain about them. This issue is very easy to solve. I see 0 ads when I visit LRC.

3) We all know these ads are targeted to the individual who is viewing them. I just turned off Adblock and received "14-minute 5K runners have a 87% reduction in diabetes".

RW is for the hobby joggers, LRC for the elites.

to the brosjo gangright hand ads covering the body of a post is annoyingplease fix it

The real name of this site is LetsOverDoAds.com

The overlapping of embedded threads doesn't occur if letsrun.com is not allowed with an Ad blocker. That means there is a text wrapping function that works in full-screen width mode that is not adjusted for partial screen width when the right-hand side threads are placed.

Should be fixable by the LRC web guru.

stats.gangsta_the_real_1 wrote:

http://goo.gl/dKot8w

How do you get beautiful Greek women? I get Chinese lady date. Got nothing against Chinese but I prefer white girls. Google should have figured out my preferences by now.

stats.gangsta_the_real_1 wrote:

An ad at the beginning of the post.

An ad fixed to the right of all the posts.

An ad in between sentences in the post.

An ad that is fixed to the bottom across the entire screen.

An ad built into highlighted green words in posts.

To quantify the issue, it looks like about 50% of the screen is covered in ads. An eye ball calculation looks like:

About 33.3% gone for the ad on the right.

66.6% remaining.

66.6 × ~1.5/7 = 14.14 gone for the ad on the bottom.

33.3 + 14.14 = 47.44% screen gone due to ads.

Oh, then the blank ad that never loaded is about 25% of the 66% = 16.65%

47.44 + 16.65 = 64.09% gone from ads.

So, 47.44% of my screen is taken by these ads AS A FIXED MANDATORY MINIMUM. These ads are there no matter if I scroll up and down. The blank ad that never loaded will go away with scrolling. However, If I scroll down and a larger in-paragraph ad shows, then over 90% of my screen is gone.

So, between ~47.44% and 90+% is gone. Someone check my math.

Fix this, please and a response would be appreciated.

like them pale wrote:

How do you get beautiful Greek women? I get Chinese lady date. Got nothing against Chinese but I prefer white girls. Google should have figured out my preferences by now.

I have no idea. Now, I am getting a Filipino ad. As you can see, the unloaded ad has increased in size. This confirms my hypothesis that the amount of ads is directly proportional to the amount of complaining.

AmountOfAds = C x AmountOfComplaining

If the admins are really diabolical, then something like

AmountOfAds = C x (AmountOfComplaining^2).5

For the women on Letsrun, do you get dating service ads? Are they men or women? Do you get breast implant ads instead of male enhancement ads? I'm curious if women are experiencing an equal but opposite version of the Internet or if the entire Internet is tuned to straight males.