Guys, it would seem our happy, well most of the time, little website has gone "Big Time". The pop up adds and "bots" bugged the crap outa me at first, in fact I was quite pissed. Not becuse they were there, because I felt that now somebody was tryin to make a buck off our passion for this site.
If there had been a post along the lines of:
"Due to the ever increasing costs of running a web site we, unforunately, have to start placing pop ups, and the bots they contain, on our site. We are sorry for any inconvinience this may cause, but to continue to keep bringing you this high quality site we have no choice. The funds these pop ups generate will be applied exclusivley to the real operating costs of this site and to bring you even more content and features in the future. No one associated with this site will realize any income from these ads. We realize it is you, the subscibers, readers and content contributers to this site that are the ones who keep hunters comming back and as such it is you who make this site what it is and are the true 'owners' of this site."
A statement like that would have gone along way to make the change more palatable. I can't help but feel a little "used" at this point. But damn it, I'm a junkie and I gotta have my fix.
Gentelman, the adds hurt. But I'm a big boy and I'll get over it. Business is business.
The 'Bonker