Ads on FE (merged threads)

[Johanna]

Huh, I didn't even know that adblocker existed or that this computer had it and was using it.  how do you put a website in the "whitelist"?

[Johanna]

Huh, I didn't even know that adblocker existed or that this computer had it and was using it.  how do you put a website in the "whitelist"?

Never mind, I figured it out.

[Vox Clamantis]

<snip>

Right now, I think that alert will turn away any new users at the very least. <snip>

You might well be right about that one, Rosarium. I, myself, didn't put the code in, but will talk to the person who did and see what he thinks and ask if he'd alter it...

For making money from running a forum, I would recommend using your skills. You can write, and your site's content is considered to be one of the best of its kind and the reason why people generally come to this forum in the first place. It is incredibly easy to self publish e-books through Amazon and other vendors. You may find that informative books, even just using public domain content, could get you significant revenue. A single self made ad about your digital books could net you more than you would hope for.

My Bibles get me several hundred dollars a year and there is nothing special about them except they are 99 cents.

I will pray for you and your work. I hope you are able to do what you desire without resorting to what is potentially scandalous.

I have the "cheat sheet" book (more a booklet, really) -- but have a problem selling things like that. I want to give it away, you know what I mean? (ha, I think you do, R.). I have a donation button on the page with it, but would hate to deprive anyone of the information just because that person is poor. When it comes to things that I think could truly help bring souls to Christ, it feels "off" to me to put a price tag on it. I don't mean that I think it's "wrong" per se, and writers and compilers of information have to eat, too -- but for me personally -- I dunno.  Maybe a book on customs and such would be a different matter; one doesn't need to know about Christmas traditions to get to Heaven LOL

I am considering making a non-Catholic website for the purpose of trying to make money. If that works, it would disentangle me emotionally from the "hang-ups" I have about monetizing this site any more than it is with the ads (which I truly do dislike having to have). Or maybe I could win the lottery! LOL

In any case, THANK YOU, Rosarium, for any prayer you're willing to "throw my way." I can really use it about now... and especially in September. Scary stuff... (Also, BTW, I have NOT forgotten about restoring the blog. That, too, is in the hands of my friend. Wish I were more technically-minded!)
 

[Walty]

I think that a yearly goal with updates would help bring in more donations.  It's easy to rally around a goal and most FE users would, I think, be willing to chip in more (or chip in at all) if they had a tangible number to shoot for.

[JoeVoxxPop]

Rosarium, I apprecieate your zeal for sanctity...but I think your useing tunnle vision. When I drive down many a highway I find out that highway may be "sponsored" by some local masonic lodge....I see billboards that could make a grown sailor blush (maybe) and see bumper stickers on other cars that many a time have downright profane and blasphemous content....am I to abandon using the highway? Evil surrounds us...when st paul was on his travels he was surelly accosted by many uninvited moral sociatal evils...but he just kept on walking. This site is what I call a realistic and nonhypocritical catholic site...its not a website for the pure and full of sanctity...but sinners and rough characters who too could be good catholics overall.

[Scriptorium]

What we should do is commit to clicking through a certain number of times, and be done with the pop up stuff.

[Rosarium]

Rosarium, I apprecieate your zeal for sanctity...but I think your useing tunnle vision.

What do you think I think others are using?

If my zeal is misplaced, rooted in psychology or other temporal matters, then it can be dismissed, but if my zeal is from love of truth, then what fault can it be to me?

When I drive down many a highway I find out that highway may be "sponsored" by some local masonic lodge....I see billboards that could make a grown sailor blush (maybe) and see bumper stickers on other cars that many a time have downright profane and blasphemous content....am I to abandon using the highway?

That is not the same situation as this, so the answer does not matter. Everyone has the duty to act morally and I think on a personal level when such a connection exists on some level, we should aid each other in doing what is good.

Evil surrounds us...

Unless we are a part of it, then "good" surrounds us while we try to stamp it out.

The evil do not think they are evil.

when st paul was on his travels he was surelly accosted by many uninvited moral sociatal evils...but he just kept on walking.

He also wrote this:

There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh. For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh; God sending his own Son, in the likeness of sinful flesh and of sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh; That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. For they that are according to the flesh, mind the things that are of the flesh; but they that are according to the spirit, mind the things that are of the spirit. For the wisdom of the flesh is death; but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace. Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither can it be. And they who are in the flesh, cannot please God.

The take away message is that the concerns of the flesh are to be kept to a minimum. St. Paul was also shipwrecked, beaten, stoned, and imprisoned, yet, he continued on.

This site is what I call a realistic and nonhypocritical catholic site...its not a website for the pure and full of sanctity...but sinners and rough characters who too could be good catholics overall.

Beware of spiritual stagnation.

[Rosarium]

You might well be right about that one, Rosarium. I, myself, didn't put the code in, but will talk to the person who did and see what he thinks and ask if he'd alter it...

Web usability is my specialty.

Also, I took the idea from Microsoft's Windows validation service. It does not interrupt the use of the non-validated software, but it gives a constant notification (last time I saw...what do people expect me to do? Pay for their own computer?).

I have the "cheat sheet" book (more a booklet, really) -- but have a problem selling things like that. I want to give it away, you know what I mean? (ha, I think you do, R.). I have a donation button on the page with it, but would hate to deprive anyone of the information just because that person is poor. When it comes to things that I think could truly help bring souls to Christ, it feels "off" to me to put a price tag on it. I don't mean that I think it's "wrong" per se, and writers and compilers of information have to eat, too -- but for me personally -- I dunno.  Maybe a book on customs and such would be a different matter; one doesn't need to know about Christmas traditions to get to Heaven LOL

I give the same Bibles away for free too. You retain the rights to your own work. Best of both worlds.

I am considering making a non-Catholic website for the purpose of trying to make money. If that works, it would disentangle me emotionally from the "hang-ups" I have about monetizing this site any more than it is with the ads (which I truly do dislike having to have). Or maybe I could win the lottery! LOL

The lottery is a tax on people bad at math.

In any case, THANK YOU, Rosarium, for any prayer you're willing to "throw my way." I can really use it about now... and especially in September. Scary stuff... (Also, BTW, I have NOT forgotten about restoring the blog. That, too, is in the hands of my friend. Wish I were more technically-minded!)

Don't wish to be more technically minded...you go through life seeing everybody doing things the wrong way. I think most people would be quite misanthropic if they retained their own self with the addition of being technically minded.

[JoeVoxxPop]

Rosarium...you misunderstood...I was complimenting your zeal. But I think the benefits of FE outway the spiritual dangers. And besides Vox banned the offending site. This seems the reasonable compromise.

[Walty]

Rosarium...you misunderstood...I was complimenting your zeal. But I think the benefits of FE outway the spiritual dangers. And besides Vox banned the offending site. This seems the reasonable compromise.

Damn.  I was thinking of clicking it the next time I saw it and converting to lesbianism.