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ORIGINAL: needlesandpins
i don't really mind these pop-under ads. i do wonder though that as i have pop-ups blocked on my comp how do they get past that?

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ORIGINAL: BoundSlave4Life

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ORIGINAL: VideoAdminAlpha

Collarme.com has been a completely free site for over 10 years and is the world's largest free BDSM dating site. In order to continue the site's free status and developing new features in all of the various areas of the site, we have had to increase our advertising in order to defray costs. The pop-under ad will only appear once per 24 hours and can easily be closed. We hope that you understand and will continue to support us.

Alpha


Edited to add: And no, the staff are STILL volunteers

I heard that CollarMe makes something like 800k+ a year on the Ads that are on the normal pages. How are POP UPS needed to "Continue the site's free status and developing new features"? I've been on here for meh. A year or so now and I haven't noticed any new features.


If the staff are volunteers and don't get payed and this site has been up for idk 10+ years why is there a need for pop ups NOW? Better question. If you need all of this money to keep the site running why do people STILL get locked out of their profiles, and why are there so many scammers when it's not hard to ban their IP addresses?
The "Largest free BDSM Community site" it may be, but what about Fetlife? Less members, yes. But also a less scammer/fake to real member ratio as well as the LACK of Pop Ups and ads with sound.

These questions aside --- the fact that ANY of the advertisements have sound is COMPLETELY wrong, disrespectful, crude, uncalled for, and frankly disgusting on the part of CM. They should NOT have sound. Idgaf if it's once every 24 hours, once every 24 seconds or once every 24 years. It it NOT acceptable, and it's just CM trying to get more money from the advertisements.

Great. Now that you're making more money GET RID OF THE SCAMMERS!!!

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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie

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ORIGINAL: BoundSlave4Life

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ORIGINAL: VideoAdminAlpha

Collarme.com has been a completely free site for over 10 years and is the world's largest free BDSM dating site. In order to continue the site's free status and developing new features in all of the various areas of the site, we have had to increase our advertising in order to defray costs. The pop-under ad will only appear once per 24 hours and can easily be closed. We hope that you understand and will continue to support us.

Alpha


Edited to add: And no, the staff are STILL volunteers

I heard that CollarMe makes something like 800k+ a year on the Ads that are on the normal pages. How are POP UPS needed to "Continue the site's free status and developing new features"? I've been on here for meh. A year or so now and I haven't noticed any new features.


If the staff are volunteers and don't get payed and this site has been up for idk 10+ years why is there a need for pop ups NOW? Better question. If you need all of this money to keep the site running why do people STILL get locked out of their profiles, and why are there so many scammers when it's not hard to ban their IP addresses?
The "Largest free BDSM Community site" it may be, but what about Fetlife? Less members, yes. But also a less scammer/fake to real member ratio as well as the LACK of Pop Ups and ads with sound.

These questions aside --- the fact that ANY of the advertisements have sound is COMPLETELY wrong, disrespectful, crude, uncalled for, and frankly disgusting on the part of CM. They should NOT have sound. Idgaf if it's once every 24 hours, once every 24 seconds or once every 24 years. It it NOT acceptable, and it's just CM trying to get more money from the advertisements.

Great. Now that you're making more money GET RID OF THE SCAMMERS!!!

Who gives a shit if CollarMe makes 9 katrillion dollars a year in pure profit, after taxes and the fellow who owns it gets blow jobs every 27 minutes?

It's his/her/their gig.

This forum (as to the new ad pop ups) should be about whether or not they're producing the results mandated. And if they lose members, I'd guess it's now a mathematical equation against new revenues and lost "subscribers".

You can't know...nor can I.

The only thing we can do as "members", a loosely defined term considering none of us pay a damned thing is...offer our opinion as to what we, as "members" may deem this new adjunct as most appropriate.

I think it's not but...I ain't writing a monthly check.

In the end, unless YOU want to start a competing service...I'm thinking, you're basically shit out of luck.

The owners will do as they please and....thanks to this forum, they now have our opinions, it would seem....in abundance.

And....as Walter Cronkite used to say.....

"And that's the way it was, October 16th, 2012".

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ORIGINAL: BoundSlave4Life

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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie

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ORIGINAL: BoundSlave4Life

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ORIGINAL: VideoAdminAlpha

Collarme.com has been a completely free site for over 10 years and is the world's largest free BDSM dating site. In order to continue the site's free status and developing new features in all of the various areas of the site, we have had to increase our advertising in order to defray costs. The pop-under ad will only appear once per 24 hours and can easily be closed. We hope that you understand and will continue to support us.

Alpha


Edited to add: And no, the staff are STILL volunteers

I heard that CollarMe makes something like 800k+ a year on the Ads that are on the normal pages. How are POP UPS needed to "Continue the site's free status and developing new features"? I've been on here for meh. A year or so now and I haven't noticed any new features.


If the staff are volunteers and don't get payed and this site has been up for idk 10+ years why is there a need for pop ups NOW? Better question. If you need all of this money to keep the site running why do people STILL get locked out of their profiles, and why are there so many scammers when it's not hard to ban their IP addresses?
The "Largest free BDSM Community site" it may be, but what about Fetlife? Less members, yes. But also a less scammer/fake to real member ratio as well as the LACK of Pop Ups and ads with sound.

These questions aside --- the fact that ANY of the advertisements have sound is COMPLETELY wrong, disrespectful, crude, uncalled for, and frankly disgusting on the part of CM. They should NOT have sound. Idgaf if it's once every 24 hours, once every 24 seconds or once every 24 years. It it NOT acceptable, and it's just CM trying to get more money from the advertisements.

Great. Now that you're making more money GET RID OF THE SCAMMERS!!!

Who gives a shit if CollarMe makes 9 katrillion dollars a year in pure profit, after taxes and the fellow who owns it gets blow jobs every 27 minutes?

It's his/her/their gig.

This forum (as to the new ad pop ups) should be about whether or not they're producing the results mandated. And if they lose members, I'd guess it's now a mathematical equation against new revenues and lost "subscribers".

You can't know...nor can I.

The only thing we can do as "members", a loosely defined term considering none of us pay a damned thing is...offer our opinion as to what we, as "members" may deem this new adjunct as most appropriate.

I think it's not but...I ain't writing a monthly check.

In the end, unless YOU want to start a competing service...I'm thinking, you're basically shit out of luck.

The owners will do as they please and....thanks to this forum, they now have our opinions, it would seem....in abundance.

And....as Walter Cronkite used to say.....

"And that's the way it was, October 16th, 2012".

If they are claiming they "Need" the money to keep this site free, then people SHOULD care!

But hey. I'm sure they aren't counting the account that I'm locked out of and can't retrieve the password from, but doesn't show up when you search for it nor can I get a password reset E-Mail to their "Largest BDSM Community on the Internet" claim!


... OH WAIT

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ORIGINAL: OsideGirl

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ORIGINAL: VideoAdminAlpha
The pop-under ad will only appear once per 24 hours and can easily be closed. We hope that you understand and will continue to support us.

Beyond the pop up: IT HAS SOUND. Not acceptable .

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

The company wants to attract users... not run them off. Enough people here complain about the sound and that should work

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

It freezes my computer, and I run a business so the sound on is not a good thing.